Prof. David Capie, an academic from New Zealand specialized in international relations, shared his views in an interview by e-mail with Daily Mirror. He responds to questions on how small nations like Sri Lanka....

The political and bureaucratic system along with society at large and the professionals themselves have a third world mentality and offer and accept third world remuneration/salaries....

Sirisena, Wickremesinghe, and the Rajapaksas are seasoned, shrewd, and occasionally unscrupulous political figures, much like ALL other leaders in the political arena. They are well-informed...

Our prisons are overcrowded. According to the Prisons Department, while the total capacity of our prisons is for 13,241 inmates, the total prison population stood at over 29,000. Almost double the number....

The latest documentary produced by Britain’s controversial Channel 4, Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings- Dispatches was fair enough to quote both the ‘whistleblower’ Asad Moulana and the Head of State Intelligence Service (SIS) Major General Thuan

In Sri Lanka, we have been fortunate to have a tropical climate, and never really faced droughts of the worst order. Technically, what faced, have been extended periods of dry weather.

Those who are uncomfortable with the truth may try to accuse Britain’s Channel 4 television of pedalling lies through their Tuesday night programme on Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday terror attacks. To survive in politics....

Sri Lanka is again under the spotlight because Britain’s controversial television channel ‘Channel 4’ has released a documentary on the island’s Easter Sunday bombings which were carried out in....

‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ – these two words capture a deep philosophy. It means ‘the world is one family’. This is an all-embracing outlook that encourages us to progress as one universal family....

President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Government appear to be taking effective steps to stabilize Sri Lanka’s economy to rescue the country from the debt crisis. But the focus this week is on the no-confidence mo

The Committee of Experts of the Ministry of Health to “Examine the identification of impediments in the procurement of quality drugs and equipment at competitive prices: Adoption of Simple and Transparent Procurement Methodologies: and Restructurin

In recent years, Sri Lanka has witnessed an alarming surge in the proliferation of pyramid schemes that prey on the innocent public’s desire for quick wealth. The Onmax DT scam, which came to light not....

Two weeks back, an Indian space mission, Chandrayaan 3, landed in the hitherto unexplored South Pole of the moon, making India the first country to achieve the feat. The mission cost US$ 75 million....

It is a well-known fact now that the official figures of inflation and reality on the ground seem to be worlds apart, the former indicating a downward trend while the other does the other way around. In fact, the root cause of last year’s public un

Conning people is an old art, and didn’t start with the pandemic, or Gota’s economic miracle which put most of us from the frying pan into the fire.Even in pre-2021 better times, all kinds of cons were practised on people. One smart young guy in

As Sri Lanka Police celebrated its 157th anniversary on September 3, one of the most experienced and qualified retired senior police officers, Gemunu Hapuhinna, writes about important measures to control crimes (including drug related underworld acti

In April 2022 our country declared itself bankrupt and informed its international creditors that we would not be able to repay loans as scheduled. In simple language, we were cash-strapped. Sad but true.....

Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has voiced his reluctance to form political agreements or alliances with President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the leader of the UNP. There were speculations....

Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili or Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the strongman of the USSR died. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was crowned queen of England. James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announced the discovery of the double-helix structure of D

The month of September is of special significance to the people of our country. On the 26th of September 1959, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike -the fourth- and one of the more popular Prime Ministers of our country- was gunned down in cold blood by Somarama Th

The Tamil cinema firmament has produced a galaxy of stellar comedians over the years. Arguably the greatest comedian ever seen in Tamil cinema was Nagesh.

Despite the law not permitting the Election Commission to hold the next Presidential election before October next year, the National People’s Power (NPP), the political movement led by JanathaVimukthi Peramuna...

Millets had a prominent place in Sri Lankan culinary traditions; particularly in rural areas in the past. While wheat products once overshadowed the cultivation of millet grains like Kurakkan, these ancient grains....

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has played a significant role in shaping the political landscape of not only Sri Lanka, but also the broader South Asian region. Founded in 1951 by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike....

The Netherlands has promised to return some six pieces of artefacts stolen from Sri Lanka during the Dutch colonial period. An agreement was signed between officials of the two countries in Colombo....

The Sri Lankan government’s tightrope walk is evident as it tries to navigate the latest diplomatic dilemma involving India and China over the proposed visit of the Chinese vessel Shi Yan 6. India’s....

Sri Lanka is still struggling with a confusing political and economic crisis. Which way and where we will go is given different interpretations by political leaders and economic experts in such a crisis within a crisis, we are giving little attention

Large sums of money borrowed for large infrastructure projects is a key contributor to Sri Lanka’s Mountain of foreign debt, which the country is struggling to pay back. Lack of transparency, coupled with poor governance frameworks within which dec

A total of 23 persons have been killed in shooting incidents reported in the country since the 30th of May this year. Media reports showed, that of the 34 shooting incidents in the first six months of the year....

‘Brain drain’ has now become a political football, though none of the players in the blame game seems to offer solutions. Instead, the whole discourse has become a freakshow where the top ten percentile....