Photo courtesy of e-ir The year 2024 is an election year in Sri Lanka with the president’s term of office ending on November 17, 2024 and accordingly the conduct of a presidential election constitutionally mandated upon the Election Commission between September and October this year. The ousting of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa through the mass protests of the aragalaya two ...
Photo courtesy of PARL Politicians, government officers, temple officials and business people are illegally acquiring hundreds of acres of forest land belonging to the Department of Forest Conservation in the Kataragama area and distributing them to their friends and relatives. These forest lands serve as water catchment forests and as habitats for wild elephants. In addition to forest land that ...
Photo courtesy of HuffPost The World Health Organization (WHO) is expressing concerns about the global community’s readiness for pathogen X, a highly contagious pathogen that could emerge in the future. Scientists predict a higher likelihood of its origin in tropical regions, placing Sri Lanka at considerable risk. The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the livelihoods of millions of workers across Sri Lanka. ...
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has released a book entitled “The Conspiracy to oust me from Presidency”. Also on the cover are the words “how internationally sponsored regime change made a mockery of democracy in Sri Lanka.” It is priced at least 10 times its print cost and is sold out. The book is in Sinhala and English although Tamil is ...
Photo courtesy of CCRB Women working as tea pickers form the single largest segment of the plantation workforce in Sri Lanka, with little room to progress in their careers. Over the years women occupied in manual work have been resigned to difficult working conditions and limited prospects. They have been supervised, monitored, instructed and commanded by men. The tea industry ...
The public starvation of Palestine'Israelis' on a Deathright tourWhat do you say about the unspeakable? About people looking for flour being fired upon? About an entire population being starved to death? About every hospital, school, and refugee camp attacked or completely destroyed? What numbers, words, or images can you recite, to make it all stop? Why must we even debate ...
The YouTube channel of ITN Sri Lanka, which hosts over 2 million subscribers, has been hacked in what appears to be another crypto scam-related cyberattack. It’s unclear how the channel was hijacked and ITN has yet to offer any official statement regarding the present circumstances. High-profile YouTube channels have been routinely getting hacked by crypto scams in recent years, with ...
Photo courtesy of Daily Sabah In the backdrop of the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, pivotal moments are anticipated that will shape Sri Lanka’s future. Amid this evolving landscape, the voices leading change – women, trans, human rights defenders and activists – take centre stage. Sri Lanka saw months of civil unrest at the peak of the economic crisis, culminating ...
Photo courtesy of Sameera Weerathunga Today is World Wildlife Day On World Wildlife Day, it is important to remember both the triumphs and the tragedies of conservation in Sri Lanka. One of these is the Uda Walawe National Park, which was established on June 30, 1972 after consistent lobbying by members of the Wildlife & Nature Protection Society (WNPS), led ...
Photo courtesy of Sunday Times More than a year after he visited Sri Lanka, US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu went on record calling Sri Lanka the greatest comeback story in “the region I work on.” He contrasted the situation two years ago – rife with shortages and riots – ...
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board’s revamped online portal may have some security vulnerabilities that could comprise user data. First pointed out by @ishanul on Twitter, the NWSDB Online platform’s APIs are open in a way that would allow malicious actors to extract sensitive user data with ease. The vulnerability could potentially expose data such as email addresses, mobile ...
Photo courtesy of Verité Research Local elections in Sri Lanka have been conspicuously absent since 2018, marking a significant hiatus in the democratic process. Initially slated for 2022, the elections faced successive postponements, first to 2023 amidst economic turmoil and domestic instability and then faced further delays under the governance of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s administration. Presently, there is no definitive timeline ...
Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera The Wheat Flour Massacre sprayed blood on flour sacks, on February 29. A Leap Day for a Leap Year, 2024. But 112 dead Palestinians are no longer leaping for flour. They are lying on the street shot by tank operators, snipers, infantry. The UN Secretary General deplores the killing, calls again for a ceasefire and ...
Photo courtesy of X The Institute for Health Policy’s (IHP) Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey (SLOTS) MRP provisional estimates of presidential election voting intent in January 2024 show NPP/JVP leader A.K. Dissanayake with the support of 50% of all adults (-1 since previous month) followed by the SJB leader Sajith Premadasa on 36% (+2) and both President Ranil Wickremesinghe and ...
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Photo courtesy of LBO The latest estimates from Institute for Health Policy’s (IHP) revised SLOTS MRP model show no substantial change in general election voting intentions in January 2024 compared to the previous month. NPP/JVP continues to maintain a lead with 40% of adult voters (-1 since previous month). The SJB leads the rest at 30% (+2), the SLPP at ...
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Photo courtesy of Hiru News In IHP SLOTS polling in January 2024, all major party leaders continued to have negative favourability ratings. The net favourability rating of NPP/JVP leader A.K. Dissanayake increased 12 points to -10 while favourability of SJB leader Sajith Premadasa and President Ranil Wickremesinghe decreased by 9 points to -53 and -77 respectively. Favourability estimates for each ...