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Sat, 26 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
The call for co-existence is paradoxical. Is it a call for a return to a past where communities co-existed? Or is it a call for imagining new forms of existing together in the future? And can such co-existence....
Kholoud al-Faqih who became one of the first female judges to be appointed to the Sharia court (Islamic court) in Palestine is considered to be the first female Sharia judge in the history of the Middle East.
Mahajana Eksatha Peramuna (MEP) leader and joint opposition parliamentarian Dinesh Gunawardana last week raised an important question in Parliament over the appointment of former foreign Secretary Prasad Kariyawasam as adviser to the Speaker on inter
Many seem to have thrown their caps into the ring announcing that they are ready to contest the Presidential election. Others get their cohorts to make statements on their behalf. While there’s nothing wrong in independent candidates making these a
Sri Lanka is in great danger of becoming a failed state if nothing is done. A failed state is one that has lost both effectiveness and legitimacy. Effectiveness means the capability to carry out state functions such as providing security. Legitimacy
The uncertainty and frustration in President Maithripala Sirisena over his political survival and the safety of his family have been clearly visible for the past one year.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a “Theocratic State” as a “government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided.
The clash between the Executive President and the Prime Minister is widening the gap between the country’s goals and achievements.
The Persian Gulf region is being pushed to a region-wide catastrophe with global implications. This dangerous move’s architect is the United States President Donald Trump....
Politics is about inflating the useful and deflating, ignoring, wishing away or denying the uncomfortable. Some of these things are deliberate and some just issues from that powerful impetus giver, political and ideological preference.
Politics is about inflating the useful and deflating, ignoring, wishing away or denying the uncomfortable. Some of these things are deliberate and some just issue from that powerful impetus giver, political and ideological preference. Alright, let th
Many years ago Sri Lankans used to look down upon anything that was Chinese. Now China has established itself as a growing economy and Sri Lanka can’t think of any other nation better than her to rope in when planning and developing its infrastruct
Mercifully, the 48-hour work stoppage by members of the Railway Trade Union Alliance (RTUA) from Thursday midnight was called off on Saturday night with normal train services resuming from Sunday morning.
Easter Sunday’s terrorist attack, killing more than 250 people, effected unforeseen changes in political dynamics of the country. The latest is the rise of anti-incumbency sentiments within the Tamil community.....
As someone said: “Cry the beloved country – let slipped are the dogs of hate” – indeed the dogs of hate are having a field day!
Once again, maybe for the umpteenth time in the midst of election euphoria, we are talking about the upcoming presidential poll and its candidates.
Political parties in Sri Lanka are playing for time in announcing their candidates for the upcoming Presidential elections at a time....
Two months have passed since the deadly Easter Sunday attacks and as life slowly returns to normalcy in Sri Lanka’s attention now turns to what exactly happened on that fateful day.
The TIME magazine has pulled off a coup of sorts. For its latest cover it has got United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres knee-deep in waters....
Any incident of political significance has a direct bearing to the time in which it takes place. The incidence, incitement as well as the response.....
Back in the late 1950s, Britain deliberately rejected European Union membership. Subsequently in the 1960s, Britain sought to join its ranks. However President de Gaulle of France rebuffed Britain’s application and finally Britain formally joined t
The Easter Sunday attacks compelled local Muslims to engage in self - introspection of the unfolding wave of radicalization and Arabization of their community. That is a welcome development in an otherwise heinous carnage. Especially so since, until
The successful launching of the first Sri Lankan-designed satellite ‘Raavana-1’ on June 17, established the capabilities of two young Lankan engineers, Tharindu Dayaratne and Dulani Chamika. Tharindu Dayaratne is an electrical a
In November 1656 the Dutch chased Rajasinghe II of Kandy away from Colombo, violating a treaty which had promised to cede the capital to the king. On June 24, 1658, with the surrender of Jaffna, the Dutch took over Sri Lanka, and five months later, o
In 2006, the Sri Lankan Government ratified the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and accordingly committed itself to combat sexual exploitation of children (SEC).
The subtitle is not in any way intended at the two gentlemen politicians, but to quote the contemptuous description of a lighted fag .., “A Flame at one end; a Fool at the other”, a creation of mischievous anti-tobacco campaigners.
The warmongers in the United States are hard at work once again. On 20 June the world learned the US was on the verge of unleashing its air, sea and military might against Iran for the shooting down of a US drone in the Persian Gulf.
Have you ever thought about how we will be living in the year 2030 or beyond in our Motherland. Simply speaking, the changes that may take place within another 10 to 25 years.
The United National Party (UNP) which came to power in July 1977 with an unprecedented majority set about the task of transforming the hitherto closed, inward-looking and stagnant economy of Sri Lanka into an open, outward-looking and vibrant econom
The declared aim of the 19th Amendment was to curb executive powers of the President with the lofty ideal of creating better governance to achieve the ultimate goal of “Good Governance.”
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