Neither President Chandrika Kumaratunga nor Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike attended in person. Instead, the population had to watch a pre-recorded address by Kumaratunga, in which she referred ...

Beddegana Sanjeewa, a notorious killer, was appointed as a Reserve Police Inspector and recruited into the Presidential Security Division during President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s rule.

A lot of wisdom dawns after the fact; and this is what we have seen in the James Bond-style drama that unfolded in Hultsdorf on Wednesday when a high-profile prisoner, Ganemulla Sanjeewa described as ...

Three heads of state namely Chandrika Kumaratunga, Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe have presented budgets in Parliament during the recent past. All eyes will be on the budget 2025 in ...

Are they in keeping with present ground realities? The personal security of former Presidents Maithripala Sirisena, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, and Ranil Wickremesinghe has ...

18.8 million in 2024 to Rs. 16.1 million in 2025, while the recurrent expenditure for former President Chandrika Kumaratunga too has been reduced from Rs. 7.8 million to Rs. 4.6 million. The ...

After installing this plugin, you restart the editor and will get a cool statusline. The color of the statusline changes due to the mode of Vim. Try typing something, selecting in visual mode and ...

Vifm is a curses based Vim-like file manager extended with some useful ideas from mutt. If you use Vim, Vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of ...

(This article was first written in 2018 for the “Spotlight” column in the “Daily Financial Times” to commemorate the 30th death anniversary of popular actor-politician Vijaya Kumaratunga. It was ...

Reflecting on the 1993 privatisation of the estates under former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Weerasingham condemned the loss of basic rights for estate workers and proposed ...

He was awarded the Sri Lankan national honour ‘Deshamanya’ by President Chandrika Kumaratunga (1998) and was appointed Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Sri Lanka. He was awarded ...