The Anti-corruption Act and the 22nd amendment to the constitution passed the Supreme Court’s scrutiny this week. Discussing civil servants’ and judges’ asset declarations will soon be illegal. The government will also be able to appoint a majority of Appeal Court judges.

Two years into office and despite an increasingly turbulent world, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is riding high. To mark the anniversary, the government isn’t only passing laws, it's also beginning to grasp the reins of government more firmly. But rising fuel prices remain a dampener.

Sri Lanka’s credit score is back to where it was in 2020, before the fallout from covid-19 and the economic crisis. But the benefits of the credit rating upgrade may be cancelled out by high oil prices and global interest rates.

The Easter Bombings trial started in 2021. When the judgement was finally read-out this week over a 15-hour court day, nine were acquitted and 15 found guilty. The judges were careful to distinguish between committing a crime and merely being close to its perpetrators.

Between 2017 and 2023 the RTI commission didn't have a Tamil translator. One was added to the cadre in 2024.

This evening, shatter your history at the Lakmahal’s pow-wow on Dalrymple putha’s new book. Fuel prices are up, delete Uber and read more with a Colombo book fair haul. Or, later in

The Exams Department manually uploads every test score, while the UGC takes a long time verifying each candidate’s residence. Some universities are teaching five or six cohorts at once. It wasn’t always this way: students once entered university just six months after sitting their exams.

With Hormuz unlikely to open this year, alternate pipelines under attack, and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait newly closed to Saudi oil tankers, global oil prices have spiked. In Sri Lanka, the energy minister signals potential price hikes at the pump.

Diplomats grow frustrated with the Foreign Ministry, as Vijitha Herath is slow to implement existing agreements. The ministry has also missed important summits like BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. But incompetence alone may not explain the diplomatic blunders.