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Fri, 25 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
Sunday (October 27) marked ‘Deepavali’ and Hindus showed huge interest to celebrate the event, also named as ‘Festival of Lights’.
Saturday, the 26th of October 2019 marked the 1st anniversary of last year’s infamous conspiracy, which shook and shocked the entire country and the international community.
Elections come and go. People and parties come to power. They come and go. Agreements sometimes have longer shelf lives.
The Sri Lankan civil war which began on July 23, 1983 between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE also known as Tamil Tigers) – who fought to create an independent State called ‘Tamil Eelam’ in the North and East – ended in May 200
Moving from global warming and energy crisis to school crisis, rising prices, mega sales, train crisis, medical, environmental, salaries, the country is riddled in CRISES!!! The world over it is worse, natural and unnatural disasters by the score!!!
These are hilarious pre-election days where citizens of this nation are getting to hear about fancy plans presidential candidates have for them. Presidential hopeful Sajith Premadasa has challenged his main counterpart Gotabaya Rajapaksa for a debate
When the Donoughmore Reforms which included proposals for granting universal franchise to all citizens, were being discussed, the legislators who belonged to the nobility (to whom the voting rights were confined up to then) raised objection to it. As
Unlike the earlier occasions when it was reported that the leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, this time the story seems to be confirmed. Only Russia had told initially that it had no reliable infor
There is no love sincerer than the love of food ― George Bernard Shaw in ‘Man and Superman’ A senior sub editor at the editorial had grown chillies in his home garden. One fine day he found that the leaves of the plants had caught a worm dis
With less than a month left to remain in office, President Maithripala Sirisena is reportedly pondering a presidential pardon for Royal Park murder convict Shramantha Jude Anthony Jayamaha. If he actually signs an order to that effect, it could well
The 36-year long Sri Lankan civil war over the ethnic issue ended more than ten years ago, guns have been silent and people are going about their businesses without any fear of being killed or maimed. And yet, the roots of the conflict among the Sinh
Daily Mirror front page news on October 16 stated that former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaranatunga would return soon from London. The news item further says, ‘She issued a statement two days ago criticizing the SLFP’s....
Many years ago, I had the opportunity of spending a few days in a German village sheep farm. In the evening of the first day, for the first time in my life, I witnessed how the farmer rounded up his sheep.
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump triggered a wild guessing game after announcing on Twitter that “something very big” has happened, amid rumours that the US military had killed the Islamic State leader.
Just one year ago, the nation faced a shock above all shocks when the Prime Minister was removed, another appointed in his place and an illegal government in office by a constitutional coup done without any thought of how it would affect the nation.
Tomorrow is the United Nations World Day for Audiovisual heritage and the world body in a statement says audio visual documents -- such as films, radio and television programmes, are our common heritage and contain the primary records of the history
My greetings to Sivarajah, or Chivan as we called him, the brain behind this Simon Ranaweera Sivarajah Institute of Tamil teaching Tamil to Sinhalese. Let me start my story with Nallammah. According to an uncle of mine, well before I was born, she wa
Pallewatte Gamaralalage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena, the seventh and incumbent executive President, will retire in less than a month. With the presidential poll on November 16, the winner of this congested race will assume office the following day. Pre
Six months ago the country was shaken by the dastardly Easter Sunday bombings carried out by Zahran Hashim’s terror outfit National Tawheed Jamaat (NTJ). The April 21 blasts killed hundreds of innocent civilians and injured scores more, leaving peo
The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) report which gives its final findings of the Easter Sunday Bombings is viewed with raised eyebrows. This is because the PSC consists of a member in Rauff Hakeem....
In recent days and months, Hong Kong, Iraq, Chile, Ecuador, Haiti, Lebanon and several other countries have seen mass-scale public protests. Though the reasons that drew the people to the streets....
The National Elections Commission (NEC) Chairman has been pressing for fair and independent reporting of election-related issues at different fora and at meetings with political party representatives.
As we said last week, the demands put forward by five Tamil parties to the three main contenders of the presidential election are not new. In fact, the most contentious demands in the memorandum of understanding....
Dr. Ajantha Perera, the only female candidate to contest in the upcoming Presidential Polls is determined to bring about a total transformation in the existing political culture. Contesting from the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka, Dr. Perera is a recog
Despite the on-going war against narcotic drugs and the hangman’s noose hanging over the necks of repeat drug-offenders, there are also reports of drug trafficking making inroads into Sri Lanka with the proliferation of various kinds of drugs such
It is simple now. The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is reported to have submitted a set of 13 conditions to be agreed upon as the price for supporting a presidential candidate. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has refused to bite. The Janatha
Political dynamics keep changing at every election. Voting patterns are altered accordingly, and it determines who or which party will win at the end. As far as the 2015 presidential elections were concerned, the collective strength of the minority c
The Tamil politicians are a difficult lot to please. They demand the best for themselves and do the least for their community. What’s strange is that the lawmakers representing this minority community can’t find containment despite having one of
With all the religious, cultural and heritage values enshrined in this country, it is inconceivable that we, as a nation, could have allowed the heinous carnage of 21/4 to be perpetrated and it is precisely because these values are enshrined in us th
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