Underfunding appears to be a core issue impacting on the judiciary system, as Sri Lanka reportedly allocates just 0.57% of its total government expenditure to the administration of justice (roughly Rs ...

Too often, officials are reluctant to think beyond established procedures. Decisions are delayed. Files move from desk to desk. Investors become frustrated. In some cases, institutional ego or fear of ...

The Special General Meeting of the General Membership of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) today unanimously passed a resolution strongly opposing the proposed amendment to increase the ...

Sri Lanka’s new Animal Welfare Bill (gazetted on July 17, 2026) does not explicitly isolate and regulate local slaughterhouse conditions under its main enforcement clauses. This omission has drawn ...

European slaughterhouses are facing unprecedented scrutiny, with video monitoring becoming a primary tool to enforce animal ...

The Creation of self employment can never be done. The ILO of the United Nations has just folded up a self employment programme which they have been trying to establish in Tangail, Bangladesh over the ...

The Goa Inquisition was a brutal judicial branch of the Portuguese Holy Office established in Goa in 1560 to enforce Catholic orthodoxy, target crypto-Hindus/Muslims, and suppress non-Christian faiths ...

Sri Lanka today stands at a historic crossroads. Economic pressures, limited foreign investment, youth unemployment, and slow industrial growth require a serious reassessment of our development ...

Writing about his decades-long campaign for formal recognition from the International Cricket Council (ICC), Weeraratna frequently aligns sports governance with universal legal standards: [1, 2] “The ...

Given the available demographic trends, an economic downturn is inevitable for Sri lanka if it continues the way it does, doing very little for development, but leaning heavily towards luxuary ...

60 th alsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 26 th July 2026 in which five speeches by the World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim ...

The latest news from Colombo Dockyard is a strong indication that the investment by India’s Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. has already begun to strengthen confidence in the future of Sri Lanka’s ...