People voted for the neophyte President AKD and the NPP government because they want a change from the way the mainstream parties ruled them. They had voted the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe combine to ...

Given the gravity of the matter, as indicated by the President, we suggest that a Cabinet subcommittee of senior officials be appointed to study these issues in detail. Within three months, they could ...

Resurfacing ETCA in negotiations with India. According to the 34-point agreement which President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, AKDfor short, had with Prime Minister Narendra Modi or s ...

Having worked across various health institutions in the country, it’s well-known that donations of infrastructure to government hospitals are not uncommon. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of ...

The difference in purchasing power of Colombo, the national capital, and the provincial capitals was reflected in this disparity. One of the key justifications for the devolution of power is that ...

ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මේ සතියේ සිය පළමු විදෙස් සංචාරය ඉන්දියාවේ සිදුකිරීමට නියමිතය. ඉන් අනතුරුව ඔහු, කඩිනමින් චීනයේ ...

“System Change” was the magical slogan coined by the aragalaya youth, and that slogan turned out to be the magnetic vote puller for Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) and his National Peoples Power (NPP) ...

The government came on the promise to investigate corruption. They received a broad mandate from the people. That corruption whose extirpation the people want, is widespread in many Christian ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s statement that the government will not permit the erosion of its mandate for accountable government in the context of the resignation of the Speaker of Parliament ...

A recent flare up by the university students which appeared in the media is causing alarm about a possible new campaign to be started by student organizations against the establishment of Private ...

On 21 August 2024 Colombo Telegraph published an article titled, “Will the Old Order Accept AKD Victory?” The reason for raising that question then was because, of all the 39 contestants in the race ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is scheduled to make his first international visit to India this week. This is expected to be followed by a visit to China in close order. The president, and the ...