If the year 2020 was internationally known was the year of the Covid-19 pandemic, year 2022 has been dominated by the war in the Ukraine. The ongoing conflict/war has divided the world into conflicting power blocs and has served as a convenient cove

How can we make Sri Lankans think differently with the beginning of a new year being just around the corner? One way of thinking in these lines which hasn’t been pursues much is to go to another country...

If there is a one-liner to describe the withdrawing year, it may go like this: With Covid, it entered and with Covid, it departed. As we prepare to welcome....

Sandya Ekneligoda, wife of missing journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda, has been fighting a lone battle for 12 long years to seek justice for her husband. In January 2022, Sandya made a vow to Goddess Kali....

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called all parties to get together and solve what he calls the ‘ethnic-problem’ that has remained ‘unresolved’ for decades.

With Sri Lanka still struggling to overcome its worst socio-economic crisis since independence, the United Nations recently marked International Migrants’ Day and issued a statement saying in recent years, conflicts, insecurity, and the effects of

As we approach the end of 2022, it is good to look back, not only at 2022 but to go further back in our history, and learn from mistakes of the past to ensure non-repetition in 2023. Ours is a country....

The recent incidents involving sportsmen, teachers, policemen as well as administrative officials have shown signs of deterioration in the standards of the professionals produced in Sri Lanka, some of these....

The momentous year of 2022 for Sri Lanka can be divided into two major phases. In the first phase, people grew frustrated with the failure of their government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to solve....

Although it is not surprising, it is sad that the reprimanding of Sri Lankans as a whole and a politician in particular by a Korean official for not being punctual and not keeping promises, did not draw attention of the people, at least to the ext

Last week, a visiting South Korean official gave an earful to the state minister of social empowerment, Anupa Pasqual, for being late for a meeting. South Korea Disaster Relief Foundation (SKDRF) President Cho Sung Lea was se

nAll these years the authorities remained unmoved and now the Mihintale Chief has spoken out

Labour productivity Lanka is about between 18 and 22 kg per day in Sri Lanka, in contrast to 30 to 60 kg per day in the competing countries

The Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya plans to have ‘The faculty of Agriculture Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021/22’ on December 28 (Wednesday) at the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricul

The Ambassador of the Netherlands Bonnie Horbach responding to questions posed by the Daily Mirror and shared her views on bilateral relations covering areas such as the island’s economic crisis, women rights....

When 2022 dawned, no one would have imagined ‘we the people’ were about to begin a year of what could be described as one of an unimaginable and unmitigated disaster. Despite rising.....

The writer has read several well written articles in the press chronologically narrating and analysing the history of our current predicament. Now that the symptoms and diagnosis phases over the last 74 years....

At least four Sinhala Kings were converted to Christianity with the advent of the Portuguese whereas there was none converted during the Dutch era. According to historians...

Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) leader and Colombo District MP, Mano Ganesan received a telephone call from Ranil Wickremesinghe on 19 July 2022

The classic festival of joy and peace has dawned again. With the fall of snow hovering over the northern hemisphere in the heart of the winter season and by contrast,

Christmas is the grand feast of the wretched and marginalised of the Earth. Of course, the rich can also celebrate it but only in solidarity with the poor.

It has been a hectic year for all of us; especially for the lawmakers who have had to continue their ‘act’ in trying to prove to the people that they are worth the salaries paid to them. What’s alarming....

It is said that when the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold. This used to be the case. Today it is China that is shaking the world with every move it takes. Early this month, China’s all-powerful....

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has proposed to all political parties in Parliament to get together to find a solution to the decades-old ethnic problem before Sri Lanka’s 75th Independence Day....

Since Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in 2009, successive governments have attempted a range of steps to enhance the reconciliation process. In 2011, the Sri Lankan Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission....

All the fuss over that Govt directive ordering women school teachers to wear saris to school reminds me of the time when Mahinda Rajapaksa was President,

Seventeen per cent. That is the extent of Sri Lanka’s forest cover as of 2021. Even though Sri Lanka is promoted as a biodiversity hotspot, mainly to attract nature lovers from across the globe, the extent of deforestation is worrisome. Haphazard d

Over the past weeks, nay month or so, we and our fellow countrymen and women have been held in thrall by the demand by opposition parties in parliament for the holding of local government....

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, there has been so much attention on the microblogging platform. At least twice in the last two months, I have received official communications hinting....

Employees of the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau have urged the Ministry of Environment to hold an impartial inquiry to probe the frauds committed by its former acting Director General and recover....