Sunday Politics

SLFP cracks down on dissidents as pro-MR party suffers birth-pangs

Attorney General race:

MR’s new political office:

SLFP Central Committee takes swift action:

Support for new rebel party weakens:

With Yoshitha Rajapaksa being arrested in connection with the CSN TV station controversy, close allies of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa are now convinced that the wheels of law enforcement are moving. As an immediate result, they realised the importance of ‘fast-tracking’ their process of forming a new political alliance, so that they would have a platform to politicise anti-corruption investigations and legal battles surrounding them.

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cat’s eye

Inspiring speeches at gaining Independence

Jawaharlal Nehru at midnight on August 14, 1947 addressed the nation with his now famous, ‘We made a tryst with destiny’ speech. The more you read his address to the nation that India was now a sovereign State having thrown off the yoke of the British Raj, the more you are enthralled and more nuances that assail you.

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Storm over FCID tea cup

The Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID), subject to much criticism due to the nature of the investigations it carries out against those responsible for financial irregularities during the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime, completes its first anniversary this month. Though the setting up of the FCID was gazetted on February 14, 2015 following the Cabinet decision taken two days earlier,

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