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Sri Lankans – mainly Sinhalese and Tamils celebrated New Year on Wednesday in a more relaxed manner this year when compared with last year, with the COVID-19 pandemic compelling the authorities.....
When Israel last Sunday attacked Iran’s premier nuclear plant, it is not nuclear rivalry. Rather, it is outright nuclear terrorism requiring worldwide condemnation. For, it could have caused a catastrophe killing.....
Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila takes questions from the Daily Mirror on internal squabbles of the government and his criticism of certain actions.
The government seems to be in a fix in meeting the ultimatum thrown by the Archbishop of Colombo, His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith to bring the perpetrators of the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks to justice before April 21.
Based on an audit conducted by the National Audit Office in 2015, the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) has pointed out last week that about 270,000 metric tons of vegetables and fruits are being wasted annually, according to the news item publishe
Muslims of Ceylon and peninsular India, who are ethnologically similar, were in the vanguard of maritime trade in South and South East Asia from the 3rd century BC till the emergence of the Portuguese and other European powers in the 16
I got into the habit of travelling to work at night during the pandemic. Much of the past year seems to have been spent in lockdown.
“The man who sees his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is seen as his native one is already strong....
Three significant events come together in the month of April. The first is the second anniversary of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombing.....
The Easter Sunday bombings of April 21, 2019 and its consequences have caused a profound impact on the body politic of Sri Lanka.
I have been commenting on the UNHRC’s actions on Sri Lanka since 2012 and written 3 books on the subject. In 2018, I worked with Sir Geoffrey Nice QC of the U.K. to file an unprecedented “complaint procedures” petition
Medical doctors and nutritionists agree that food is an important part of our health. What matters is not how much we eat but more so what we eat and how nutritious it is.
This tribute was written on the Good Friday of 2021, a day that is significant for all Christians and especially for us who.....
Excessive hype would result in excessive hope. Excessive and idealistic hopes would end up in disappointment. This is not something new to Sri Lankans.
The government has obtained the Attorney General’s approval for the proscription of 11 Islamic organisations, some of which carry the Thowheed label associated with Wahhabism, an ideology that is accused of promoting extremism.
Revolutions are essential when the democratic paths fail do good to the masses. The 1977 Elections brought the UNP into power and the JR Jayewardene Government opened up the economy.
The conduct of elections to the provincial councils is in the interests of the top brass of the government but fresh political hurdles now stand in the way of it.
Sri Lanka gained independence from the British at the end of World War II that saw the onset of the decolonisation process.
There’s talk of Provincial Council elections. Various parties or rather their leaderships have instructed the respective ranks and files to get ready. A good time, then, to talk of this particular political exercise.
A news item, which is bound to alarm most Sri Lankans was that the Health Ministry had from March 31, temporarily halted its COVID-19 vaccination programme due to the delay in obtaining a sufficient quantity of AstraZeneca vaccines from the Serum Ins
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been beset with political instability since it declared independence from Britain in 1948. Between 1958....
For the third month running now the streets of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, have been battlegrounds.
Its been just over a year since the discovery of the first case of a Covid-19 patient in the country. On January 27, 2020.....
Deforestation in several environmentally sensitive areas in the country has been the focus of discussion in the recent past. Wanathawillu, Anawilundawa and Sinharaja have been making headlines since recent times. Allegation and counter allegations be
Great social crisis like the one we are in now, are often explained through narratives and discourses about the past. In other words, there are powerful stories about the past that claim to provide political solutions for current problems and future
The first armed revolt was carried out by the Marxist (JVP) under the leadership of Rohana Wijeweera, a former medical student from a Russian University and a former member of the Communist Party (Chinese Wing), against the Government of Prime Minist
One thing I am sure of – once the world is deemed safe enough for us to go out without masks, the faces we meet won’t look the same. They will be harder, more alert, more egocentric. Even if they don’t carry signs of change outwardly, the owner
We as a country may not be happy about the outcome of the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) resolution adopted on 23rd March 2021.
From Africa to Britain to the US, from Russia to China or from India to Sri Lanka, the unlawful use of force by the Police.....
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