If the relevant authorities are to go by what President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament on February 23 about holding Local Government elections that had then been scheduled by the Elections Commission to be held on March 9, those elections have

The number of people applying for passports and those leaving the country are of great concern these days. A pastor attached to a popular Christian Life Centre situated in the Western Province was heard....

No terrorism is more heinous than the act of condemning the Resistance as terrorism. No sooner the occupied West Bank village of Huwara was raided by marauding Israeli settlers than Israel’s....

Economically and socially, Sri Lanka is in deep trouble and the crisis deepened with yesterday’s general strike by more than 40 trade unions including doctors,

A tumultuous year in Sri Lanka seems to be never ending. The island lurching from one disaster to another. Looking at home from afar, it always gives you the sense that its internally perched on a precipice....

On Tuesday February 21, at a security conference in Beijing, Qin Gang, the Chinese Foreign Minister told participants, that China was concerned the almost year-long war Russia-Ukraine conflict could spill....

There are days when you wake up from a sound sleep. Then comes a day when you are woken up by something unexpected.Last week,

Colombo, February 27: In Sri Lanka, teenage pregnancy is lower than it is in most other developing countries, including South Asian countries.

If the elections are held now, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) is the likely winner. However, none of the political parties would manage to secure a majority, according to an opinion poll by a local think tank.

Our sister paper ‘The Sunday Times’ in its latest issue revealed that an independent power producer (IPP),

SLC with a record profit of Rs 6.3 billion made in 2022 could easily allocate more funds for developing women’s cricket. Times have....

On Saturday the media announced that the Elections Commission announced Local Government (LG) elections scheduled for March 9, could not be....

February, a month to celebrate love, whether it’s our partner, our parents or our friends.

February the 24th marked the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Former Deputy Minister Mohamed Musthapha, well known as ‘Myown’ Musthapha was deprived of his Civic Rights for seven years by the Colombo High Court on February 17 for offering Rs. 4,200,000 to National Freedom Front (NFF) MP Mohamed Muzammil dur

The Church of Sri Lanka has protested the Government’s recent action to undermine the democratic rights of the people.

The attitude in children in the future to study the history and politics of this island might change. People belonging to the older generations studied the history and politics of this nation with interest. They couldn’t help....

Today, the Russia-Ukraine war – call it the Russia-NATO war -- enters its second year. It was on February 24, last year, some 200,000 Russian troops crossed the border and invaded parts of Ukraine. Western....

Recently having seen a grand party at the residence of the High Commissioner of India on television, I could not resist my temptation to laugh.

In a sarcastic cartoon the social media portrait the focus of the current crisis by quoting a duck saying, “When I was young,

I have had two ways of getting to know about life and thinking of D.R. Wijewardene. One was by reading the writings of people like H.A.J. Hulugalle and Martin Wickramasinghe who have been closely associated with him.

Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda responds to questions from Daily Mirror on the move to implement the 13th Amendment and the fisheries issue involving India and Sri Lanka.

The last local government elections held in our country in 2018, saw the then newly-formed Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) winning a majority of the seats - 40% of the votes. The current round....

The local government elections ran into not-so-unexpected troubles last week. As things stand now, they will most likely be postponed indefinitely after the government withheld funds to print polling....

The latest Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey (SLOTS) polling in January 2023 shows the NPP/JVP and SJB running neck-and-neck nationally in General Election voting intentions amongst likely voters....

Dr. Muttukrishna Sarvananthan of Point Institute of Development in Jaffna, says that Chinese lending to Sri Lanka between 2007 and 2022 was marked by an absence of due diligence,

President of the World Tamil Confederation, Pazha Nedumaran again on Sunday has stated to an Indian news website that Velupillai Prabhakaran,

Our country is today caught up in a financial meltdown of our own making. We are dependent on the goodwill of all nations to keep our country economically afloat. We are now dependent....

The Independent Election Commission has been under pressure from the ruling party to postpone the LG elections, says Prof. G L Peiris. The group of SLPP dissidents led by GL,Vasu, Dullas, Wimal, and Gammannpila....