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Constitutional reforms is a serious business, whether it is an amendment or a new document altogether. Even ordinary bills and acts of parliament are serious affairs. Such things require lawmakers, the Attorney General’s Department, the judic
Among the world’s global powers, growing tensions are the most urgent global risk and make it harder to mobilise collective action to tackle climate change, according to a report prepared for next week’s World Economic Forum at Davos in
This alarming news item reported from Delhi, India says ‘Kenya could lose its Mombasa Port to China along the lines of Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka and International airport in Zambia. Kenya had obtained a loan of US$ 2.2 billion for the cons
Colombo was calm and quiet on Tuesday (January 15) celebrating Thai Pongal despite the political scene hotting up due to some sensitive utterances by TNA Parliamentarian Abraham Sumanthiran.
In this modern era where the globalised capitalist market economic system prevails to a large extent, all our religions call us to a different way of life rather than wanting more and more or those who have USD 100 million wanting to multiply it to U
The election of President Maithripala Sirisena four years ago on January 8 was a watershed moment in Sri Lankan politics. However, since then, it has lost its allure. This year’s anniversary was, by and large, abandoned by its early supporters.
“Leadership for a fractured world is a complex topic, and no single theory can do it justice!!!” Leadership is not a job, it is not a title, it is not even very descriptive – it is either ingrained or it isn’t!!!
This is the tragic tale of a man who wanted to tame an elephant and his smartphone linked to Facebook. The drunkard was travelling home in a trishaw with his family that included at least one of his kids.
Two more non-Cabinet ministers and a deputy minister were sworn in on Friday bringing the number of non-Cabinet ministers to five. Earlier, in the wake of Ranil Wickremesinghe being reappointed Prime Minister last month, three non-Cabinet ministers h
The writer had strongly recommended in an article published in June 2018 in several newspapers that no more coal-powered power stations should be built in Sri Lanka and that LNG should become the fuel
Myanmar, previously known as Burma, has a 70-year long history of internal armed conflicts between its predominantly-Buddhist armed forces and the Muslim and Christian separatist ethnic groups like the Rohingyas, the Kachins and the Shans in the Nort
One of former Colombo Municipal Council Chief Medical Officers, Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam’s policies in his manifesto as the Podu Jana Peramuna’s candidate for Mayor of Colombo was the extension of the city to the suburbs. This, he surmised
In a recent seven-paragraphed short document dated December 8, 2018, His Holiness Pope Francis had ventured on highlighting the topic of politics as the central theme of his January 1 customary Peace Day Message for this New Year 2019.
In the opening paragraph Bhikku Mahanama, the Father of Sri Lankan history, makes it clear that he didn’t sit down to write the Mahavamsa because he had oodles of time hanging on his hands and did not know what to do with it.
On January 11, 2019, hundreds of US federal government employees who were sent on compulsory leave, and out-of-work US government contractors both of whom were victims of the US Government partial shutdown, protested outside the White House.
There is possibly no other wild elephant who is more famous in Sri Lanka than Rambo, of the Uda Walawe National Park, (UNWP). For the past two decades, Rambo has patrolled the stretch of the UNWP bund, and he has now become a permanent fixture there.
In 2016, President Maithripala Sirisena launched a mission for Sri Lanka to grow our own nutritional food without the use of sometimes poisonous, chemical fertilizers, weedicides, pesticides or preservatives. At present, Sri Lanka imports junk foods
Those, like some highly placed people in the US Government and Congress, who say it is inevitable that Taiwan with its population of 24 million will one day return as part of mainland China rather as Hong Kong did,
The daughter of Minister Ravi Karunanayake, 15 months ago rushed to defend her father in an impassioned post: she said it was unfair for people to blame her father alone for the CB bond fiasco. “My father is a victim of character assassination,
Politicians seem to deem that they have solved all economic issues faced by the people or addressing economic issues is not any of their responsibilities. Their main focus is centered on how to capture power or remain in or retain power.
President Sirisena had requested UPFA parliamentarians to pressure the government to hold Provincial Council elections, reported DM online last Wednesday.
The approval given by the Cabinet to include law as a subject in the school curriculum must be commended. This is because Sri Lanka is not regarded as a nation that abides by the law.
In 2012, addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council sessions Sri Lanka’s then Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe questioned the United States’ moral right to bring in a resolution, while it itself was being accused of comm
Recently, Subo De Zoysa made an interesting comment on my commentating predilections pertaining to Kolombians and others. He said, ‘when you write in English, you speak AT the Kolombians. When you write in Sinhala, you speak TO the people.&rs
The inspection train tour from Beliatta to Matara marked a new beginning for Sri Lanka Railways, but it also brought to light the fact that development work can’t be separated from politics. Train journeys offer a wonderful way
One of the United States’ founding fathers, statesmen and civic activists Benjamin Franklin has said an investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Albert Einstein a genius in modern science has pointed out that education is what remains
Sri Lanka is an island situated in the south of India spanning 65,610 k.m. The composition of the population is 74.9% Sinhala, 11.2.% Sri Lankan Tamils, 9.2% Sri Lankan Muslims, 4.2% Tamils of Indian origin and 0.5% other communities. India whose p
That President Maithripala Sirisena desires to be the next presidential candidate surfaced once again when newly appointed General Secretary of his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Dayasiri Jayasekara made some utterances to that effect early this we
Right next to the National Institute of Mental Health; popularly known as Angoda hospital, there is a playground. The ground is used for matches between sports clubs and during the festive seasons for carnivals, all with loud speakers and loud musi
“The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.” ~Bess Myerson A rustle of leaves emanated something beckoning a gentle sigh of an old man. Bending tree trunks and wavy paddy, pregnant with bud
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