Your article on November 1 Daily Mirror triggered my memory regarding an intervention we tried in the early 1990s to correct this problem.

Over 2020 and 2021 the COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented economic and labour market crisis around the world; mostly as a consequence of the lockdown and other containment measures used....

If you are a cricket fan, you remember that video. Even if you are not, you should. The 29-second grainy video of two men at a city square, searching for or waiting....

Even as this column is being written, our country is making world headlines for all the wrong reasons once again. This time in the field of cricket. It was only 31 short years ago; on July 21, 1981 to be exact....

After eight Tamil detainees were released on a Presidential pardon on October 24, the day on which Hindus celebrated Deepavali, the Presidential ....

Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilake, who is accused of allegedly sexually assaulting an Australian woman, he met on Tinder....

Sri Lanka is gradually coming under the influence of the West, with the non-Western powers clearing the ground for that. China is dragging....

I was going to continue with the second part of my analysis of the dilemma faced by the people’s struggle (Aragalaya), not simply.....

Art nourishes your soul and can also fix your mood. You can also buy art and get closer to the colours and the meaning they portray. But it would....

‘Neth Suwaya’ Eye camp donating free spectacles to those in the fishing communities in and around Negombo was organized by Sustainable....

Sri Lanka’s economy is collapsing with people pushed to the brink of starvation. There is mounting anger towards the Government.....

Has the ‘Aragalaya’ died or is it rising from the ashes? Protests in the country are springing up by the day in one part of the country....

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ceased to exist as a functioning entity after its military defeat on the shores of Nandhikkadal lagoon in May 2009.

We all as concerned citizens bemoan and cry over the current plight of our dear motherland.

The war in Ukraine is now entering its ninth month and is stalemated. On the one hand, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is driving Finland and Sweden into the arms of the NATO bloc and with it, the probability of US and NATO troops and missiles closer

The Maha Season is approaching and there is great concern within the agriculture community. One of the biggest concerns is farmers not receiving fertilizer at the expected time. When the farmers....

Benjamin Netanyahu is a suspected war criminal. The adjective ‘suspected’ is added here to conform to journalistic ethics and in deference to a judicial principle where a person is not guilty until proven....

Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) leader Patali Champika Ranawaka subsequent to the adoption of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution said that there are 10 members of Parliament with dual citizenship. He observed....

Many people predict that Sri Lanka is on the verge of a famine due to an imminent food shortage in Sri Lanka by 2023. However, it seems that there is a possibility of an acute food crisis....

In major religions, leaders and scholars have been proclaiming that our spirituality needs to go wider and deeper by our active and effective involvement in poverty alleviation,

A good hearted woman, Barbara Undershaft, devotes all energies to help the poor as a major in the Salvation Army. She sees Andrew, her millionaire father, an arms dealer, as someone who needs to be saved.

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, designated as COP27, will be held from November 6 to 18 at Sharm El Sheikh....

Our country continues to limp through the worst financial crisis which hit it since independence. Our outstanding foreign debt remains....

Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has on October 26 requested Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to appoint a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to recommend reforms in all three tiers of elections in the country, Pa

Britain now has a British Asian, Hindu Prime Minister, though Rishi Sunak is whiter than White in his policies and richer than the Brit

Living in a hamlet surrounded by five temples, a catholic church and a mosque, I am inundated with multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious mélange of highly amplified loudspeaker sounds, that include.....

As the world watched in fascination, five days ago - on October 30 to be exact, Rishi Sunak of Indian extraction, became Britain’s first Prime Minister of colour - a former colonial, has now become....

Over the past week media -both traditional as well as social media- has been focusing on the ugly incident which took place at the world famed Yala sanctuary on the 23rd of this month.

At the outset we as sovereign voters exhort that all Politicians and the people with the ‘Country at heart’ must realize and agree that the objective of holding Local Govt.(LG) elections is not to test the popularity or unpopularity of their part

Children in Sri Lanka are not safe when in the company of unknown adults. And when reading recent news we get to understand that even....