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Sun, 27 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
The reason for the early hype among the political parties and the media on the Presidential election which is not at hand is very clear.
Provincial Council (PC) elections withheld for far too long by both the Government and the Elections Commission (EC) not wanting to take responsibility is leading to a major political conflict yet to break into an open debate and public protests.
Sri Lanka’s agriculture and dairy industries are experiencing plagues and the entire country went into alert mode by early Thursday.
The double whammy that jolted journalism this week exposed the wide gap between what journalism is and what it should be. In an ideal sense, journalism is a noble vocation, the voice of the voiceless and the watchdog or the fourth estate.
Major (Rtd) Ajith Niranjan Perera has seen war. He was in the first batch of the Special Forces, set up in 1985 led by Major General (Rtd) G Hettiarachchi, numbering 38 men and two officers. He has fought to ensure the security of the citizenry,
The much hyped Indian movie, ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ which hit the theatres two weeks ago has ended up as a dud both in content and at the box office. This all apparent attack on India’s first Sikh Prime Minister Manmohan
Sri Lanka’s efforts to curb drug use in the country could turn out to be harder than instilling some discipline in its lawmakers. Just days ago President Sirisena was full of confidence when stating that he would bring the drug tra
It’s the time limit encompassing the prime period of the National Unity Government between the United National Party (UNP) and the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). After he fell out with the UNP leadership and
Of course! Words do get things done! Change the words, alter the discourse – presto – world around you start to change.Yes, discourse is strategy, and communication specialists call it STRATEGIC DISCOURSE.
The recent fracas over a Lyceum International School student gaining first place at a local exam makes me realize how confused the public is by the International School system.
The service station of the car company was flooded with brand new luxury Jeeps and SUVs of a particular model and brand. A year ago, speaking to an official of the company, I learnt that they have sold over 150.....
PROCRASTINATION is the name of the game, a game that is well played in our island country home!!! Whether it be Politics, Elections, Bringing Criminals to Justice, Building Bridges, or Planning...
The latest challenge to man’s existence comes in the form of Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWS) also referred to as killer robots, which attack the target without human assistance.
The terms of office of three councils in the Eastern, North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provinces have lapsed in September and October 2017, and those of another three councils in the Central, Northern and North western Provinces expired in September la
Federalism and devolution of power are bogeys that spook the Sinhala South; yet objectively, they need not. They are effective tools of countering, frustrating and defeating secessionist tendencies and....
The name ‘United Nations’ (UN) was coined by US President Roosevelt and grew amid the ruins of World War II at a time the people all over the world wanted peace. The UN, as we know it today, is an inter-governmental organisation tasked pr
These words, ‘where every prospect pleases and only man is vile’ written long ago about our country by Bishop Reginald Heber, were resented by me when I first read them, as a schoolgirl, as I felt they were unfair. But when one looks at h
Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa’s press release for Thai Pongal drew the attention of Jaffna District Parliamentarian Abraham Sumanthiran. The release states that Raja
It is disconcerting to read that Sri Lanka has sought the help of the Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte to control the drug menace in the island when it is well-known that Duterte’s lawless and murderous approach has been condemned b
The two centres of Western powers are experiencing crises of policy decisions that were adopted in 2016. The simplistic narrative would be the desire for Trump administration to keep people out across the US Mexico.....
The Economist’s Intelligence Unit Democracy Index which provides a snapshot of the state of democracy globally has ranked Norway on the top of the list as a Full Democracy.
On 11 January hundreds of US Federal Government employees who were sent on compulsory leave, and out-of-work, the US Government contractors both of whom were victims of the US Government partial shutdown, protested outside the White House.  
The protests staged outside certain media institutions last week by a group of civil society activists with the sinister warning ‘We are watching you!’ is a subject for some speculation.
Our major religions tell us that the most important dimension of our greatness is not so much the power we have, but our care for others. This virtue is more important when it relates to how much we care for our mothers and fathers especially when th
Many know about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat in Budapest, who led his embassy in a successful attempt to issue “protective passports” to at least 6,000 Hungarian Jews so they could escape the Nazi occupiers and travel to Sweden.
Government ministers, members of parliament and a high-profile individual possessing both US citizenship and a military background, during the past few days, aired views on who should be the next president of Sri Lanka.
Less than a month after United States President Donald Trump declared that the US troops in Syria would be called back, four Americans, including two soldiers, were killed on Wednesday.....
One brother says, I’m ready if people are ready. The elder brother then tells media, I am also ready. They are both talking of the next Presidential Election. The fact remains, there are two other brothers, who matter more.
One group of politicians in the North keep on telling their voters that the Sinhalese leaders were depriving them of all their rights, to grab their lands, to sideline them in education and employment and what not.
There were rumblings within the political combine of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) after some UPFA stalwarts – Mahinda Samarasinghe, Nimal Siripala de Silva and the like-
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