Ravi Nagahawatte writing under the catchy title, “What does Patali know about politics that Harini doesn’t know?”, [Daily Mirror -14/10] - says, “…. we see two forces....

The National Peace Council (NPC), an independent and non-partisan organization that works towards a negotiated political solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, has issued a statement....

Well-known Hindi film actor Amitabh Bachchan celebrated his eightieth birthday on October 11. The veteran thespian continues to be active,

Traditionally democracy’s four major pillars have been the executive, the legislature, the judiciary and the free media.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe on October 9 made several suggestions to the country’s electoral system during a meeting with a group of professionals at the Presidential Secretariat.

Sri Lanka is going through great pains to get its economy in order after the country’s lawmakers pulled the island to a state of bankruptcy by obtaining loans which were used on useless projects. The bubble....

Rear Admiral Justin Jones CSC RAN, Commander of the Joint Agency Task Force Operation Sovereign Borders and Lucienne Manton, Australia’s People Smuggling and Human Trafficking Ambassador....

Peradeniya Arts Faculty Teachers’ Association (PAFTA) in a statement has strongly condemned the conduct of a certain group of undergraduates who called themselves ‘Raggers’ and unleashing violence against....

Sri Lanka is a country that needs a lot of food now to feed many hungry mouths. Something that alarms us is that many of these mouths are that of children. Many programmes have been....

Saturday’s devastating blast on the bridge that connects mainland Russia with Crimea, which is now under Russia, is, no doubt, a terrorist attack. It cannot be labelled as an act of war or brought under....

Andreas Hergenröther, a German economic expert with speacial knowledge about Asia, shares his insights on the merits of Private Public Partnership (PPP) models for Sri Lanka to revive the economy. He underscores...

October 11 is commemorated the world over as the year of the ‘Girl Child’.The International Day of the Girl Child was first focused on, at the Beijing Declaration in 1995 at the World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Indra Mani Pandey. Remember the name. He’s India’s Permanent Representative in Geneva. He’s no novice in matters diplomatic, having joined the service more than 30 years ago.

The people of Sri Lanka are going through extremely difficult times. They are hungry and rightfully they are protesting. This is especially....

On April 1 this year I awoke to over 500 messages that had accumulated on my phone overnight. For weeks, my home country of....

The Cabinet this week will take up a proposal to voluntarily downgrade Sri Lanka from a Middle- Income Country to a Low-Income country.....

The abolition of executive Presidency in general and the proposed 22nd Amendment to the Constitution currently are best two cases.....

Looking at the voting on the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution on Sri Lanka on October 6, it appears that the decisions taken....

An all-religious ceremony and a milk rice alms offering was held at Sri Dalada Maligawa, Kandy on 16.09.2022 to Mark the 60th Anniversary.....

Our country, in the words of no less a person than our president, is bankrupt. To use a colloquialism, we are ‘stone broke’. Our international debt which we are unable to repay and have defaulted stands at a staggering US$ 51 billion.

Volumes have been written on her ‘Temple Trees’ days but her nursery, pre-teen, adolescent and young housewife times at ‘Ella

Sri Lanka is facing the worst disaster since independence in 1948. Though the new President Ranil Wickremesinghe is taking practical steps nationally and internationally to reduce the heavy socio-economic burdens on the people,

The government seems to be more interested in suppression of people’s agitations rather than looking into the root causes of them and resolving those issues for good.

The Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill presented by the Minister of Justice is a shocking legislative proposal that must be rejected by the Parliament of Sri Lanka.

Much is spoken of students and their achievements, but seldom are teachers highlighted for their contributions made to the field of education. We all know that teachers draw paltry salaries. However....

So Ukraine is winning the war against mighty Russia, an enemy which is armed to the teeth with earth-destroying nuclear weapons. It appears to be so if we are to believe western media...

In some corner of the world, atop a mountain, in a cave, by a stream, in a coffee shop or a corporate office, there could be someone who is a saint.

A tourist fresh from his/her homeland walking or driving along the roads of Colombo, could not be faulted for mistaking our country as a middle income nation. Luxury apartments and shopping malls have sprung up in all parts of the capital. Fancy and

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Tokyo on Tuesday, that Sri Lanka....

On an everyday basis, international news headlines are filled with gory stories of death and destruction coming out of the war in....