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Thu, 24 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
“I find hope in the darkest of days and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe” – Dalai Lama
After it rose from the ashes of a nuclear holocaust to be an economic marvel not long after World War II, Japan re-appeare
The number of coronavirus disease across the world has crossed 23,383,472 mark according to ‘Worldometre’, and 808,715 succumbed.....
In a meticulously prepared speech leaving no room for opposition to use fresh ammunition, the President delivered broad implications for his new government’s....
Myopia - a blight which, if not addressed and eradicated, will surely be the end of humankind as we know it.
A year ago, on August 22, 2019, the then Cabinet approved a set of reform recommendations to the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act.....
The recently concluded Sri Lankan parliamentary election resulted in the defeat of several veteran politicians.
Sri Lanka while being an island paradise blessed with the Buddha Dhamma and the virtues of at least three other major world religions has also been one of the worst victims of terrorism where hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured and
The saying of British parliamentarian Lord Dalberg Acton that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely conveys the belief that as a person’s power increases, his or her moral sense diminishes
In a policy statement yesterday to the newly elected Parliament where the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has a majority of almost two-thirds, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made what most independent....
Liberal democracy is rooted in the rights of individuals, and not the rights of groups or fixed communities. Liberal democracy cannot exist without a national identity that defines what citizens hold in common with one another.
A video going viral disseminated by a group of passionate environmentalists to save a pristine Marine Nature Reserve in imminent danger, was picked up by a set of eagle eyed nature loving activists of Ladies’ College Class of ‘72.
Despite Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) having an issue with the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) over the sharing of the National List seats allocated to it, in a way, it must be happy with the adamancy of the latter.
The first week at work by cabinet and state ministers was disrupted by a sudden island-wide power failure on Monday (August 17) which called for a response from the subject minister Dullas Alahapperuma.
The foreign policy motto of the previous government was ‘friendship with all, enmity with none’. Its verbatim meaning suggests the then Government’s policy was to be even-handed in its dealings with the world,
A fortnight ago, the world joined Japan to mark the 75th anniversary of the detonation of two atomic bombs by the United States over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the final stages of World War II in 1945.
In the run up to the recently concluded parliamentary elections we saw grave concerns being expressed by certain quarters over the possibility of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) securing a two-thirds majority.
At the August 5 general election, the people gave the president and his Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) a landslide victory, which together....
The unforeseeable has happened. For the first time in the history of our Parliament, at least after the UNP was founded in the year 1944....
Humanitarianism is not just qualified by man’s humanity to man, but encompasses the world in general. For the betterment of humanity....
In spite of the current electoral system being called Proportional Representation (PR) system, in fact there are elements in the very system that disturbs the proportional representation. One is the bonus seats awarded to the party that gets the high
The United National Party (UNP) is on life support. Its plight is an aberration in the history of centre-right politics. Generally, it is the polar opposite of the UNP’s political ideology, the Communists, Marxists and the hard Left that found them
During World War I, the Arab countries having come to an agreement with the British colonialists, via the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence....
When someone takes their own life, it is the ultimate consequence of great distress. But the specific causes for such tragic endings are never clear, and are often compounded by a myriad set of factors. H
A teenager’s worldview... In writing this article, I’ve been cautioned against using the word “secular” too much, and while that seemed shocking to me, it seems to be reflective of Sri Lanka’s - and even the world’s - general ineptitude a
Sajith Premadasa’s newly formed Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) has managed to overcome the hurdles and booby-traps laid in its path ahead of the 2020....
The one-word answer to the question “Did M. A. Sumanthiran of the Tamil National Alliance win in the Jaffna Electoral district by “stealing” the preference votes cast for another TNA candidate Ms. Sashikala Raviraj?
Essentially, a good human being is not selfish or self-centred but other-centred and ready to share and care for others, mainly the millions of people caught up in the poverty trap. While some look at or judge by outward actions or appearances,
My father was the first in his family and my mother’s, to foretell Mahinda Rajapaksa’s rise to power in the 1990s. At the time the man was in charge of Labour and Vocational Training, a threadbare though challenging ministry if ever there was one
The engagement of youth in politics is important in reconciliation work and for the prosperity of the nation. In the present Cabinet sworn in on August 12 we saw two youthful faces that of Namal Rajapaksa (34) and Jeevan Thondaman (26) being presente
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