The Irrigation Department, which is allegedly branded as ‘a den of corruption’, has become a haven for its corrupt employees. They are said to be well protected by the majority of their superiors. Following the National....
The massive deforestation and arbitrary acquisition of reserve lands in Pottuvil area in Ampara are continuing. Day by day, lands belonging to the Wildlife, Forest and Archaeology Departments are being....
When re-examining the research papers of Rameez Aboobacker, a sociology professor and the current Vice Chancellor of the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, serious breaches of academic integrity.....
The Sri Lanka Cement Corporation owned factories in Kankesanthurai, Puttalam and Galle. The factories in Puttalam and Galle were sold in 1993. The factory in Kankesanthurai didn’t operate due to the war. Although the Puttalam Ceme
According to the latest World Bank assessment Sri Lanka ranks fifth among countries with the highest food price inflation. UNESCO recently announced that Sri Lanka has the sixth-highest and second highest rate of malnutrition among children in the world and in Asia respectively. The United States Congress said that an estimated 60% of Sri Lankans skip one out of t
The shocking revelations that transpired at the Committee on Public Enterprises on Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) unearthed on August 9 how the latter’s annual expenditure was considered as ‘losses’ and exceeded the annual tax collection of the Department of Inland Revenue and the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka.
Astonishing revelations have come to the fore about how the Foreign Ministry under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has attempted to throw the full diplomatic weight of Sri Lanka behind an effort to safeguard the President’s first cousin,