Remembering legendary Lankan trade unionist Bala Tampoe
Tampoe’s 11th death anniversary fell on September 1 2025
Can India claim Katchatheevu Island?
By Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne/The Island Colombo, September 3 – Katchatheevu Island is located in the Palk Bay, one and half nautical miles from the India-Sri Lanka International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL), on the Sri Lankan side of IMBL. This boundary line was ratified in...
Milinda Moragoda meets with Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
New Delhi, September 2 – As part of his ongoing engagement with Indian leaders and policymakers, Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, Milinda Moragoda, met with Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi on Monday. The meeting focused on the turbulence and disruptions currently...
Will Ranil be back in circulation?
By Vishvanath/www.counterpoint.lk Colombo, August 31 – Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who received intensive care for seven days after being arrested and remanded under the Offences Against Public Property Act, on August 22, walked out of hospital on August 29! He is expected to...
Five notorious Sri Lankan gangsters arrested in Indonesia
It was a joint operation by Sri Lankan, Indonesian and INTERPOL officers
Ranil Wickremesinghe – stabilised economy, taken handcuffed to remand jail
By Dayan Jayatilleka/DailyFT Colombo, August 29 – When Napoleon ordered the execution of the Duc d’Enghien, a Bourbon prince, in 1804, the great French diplomat and thinker Talleyrand reportedly said “it is worse than a crime, it is a blunder”. The phrase became legend. The...
Has the JVP led NPP Launched a Political Witch Hunt Targeting Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe ?
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj/www.dbsjeyaraj.com/www.ft.lk Colombo, August 29 – History was made when 76 year old Ranil Sriyan Wickremesinghe was arrested by the Sri Lankan Police Criminal Investigation Department(CID) on charges of alleged corruption and misappropriation of public funds amounting to a little over Rupees 16.6 million.He...
The arrest of Ranil Wickremesinghe: The all-important question over life and death of democracy
By Ranga Jayasuriya/Daily Mirror Colombo, August 27 – Intriguingly, however, the biggest victim of this sordid episode is not even Ranil Wickremesinghe, but what initially appeared to be an ambitious anti-corruption campaign. Its initial indictments hinted at a genuine desire to hold the crooks accountable....
How private is a “private” foreign visit of a serving President?
The answer to the question, “how private is a private visit?” is therefore both simple and profound: it is only as private as the public can trust it to be.
Arrest and remand of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe
By DBS Jeyaraj/Daily Mirror Colombo, August 25 – Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Sri Lankan Police on Friday 22nd August 2025. Subsequently he was produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate and remanded until August...
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