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Sun, 27 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
We are going through a very critical phase in Sri Lanka. The country needs immediate measures to put things back on track which will give short and long-term lasting results.
With the defeated Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen losing his case in the Supreme Court for annulling the September 23 Presidential Election on grounds of “rigging”, President-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih will be assuming office, as sche
On October 16, President Sirisena donated a sum of rupees one million to the family of a police sergeant Sanath Gunawardana, who went berserk at the Thebuwana police station, pointed his T-56....
Communal Politics have played havoc in the political platform of Sri Lanka for a number of decades. Although the organized left movement in the country and the wise leaders....
Afghan administration of President Ashraf Ghani suffered a massive blow when Chief of Police in the volatile Afghan district of Kandahar Abdul Raziz, a fierce opponent and bulwark against the Taliban was assassinated.
With a revolutionary judgement, the Indian Supreme Court last month abolished laws that criminalized sexual activities between individuals of same-sex.
“Suppose aliens existed, and that some had been watching our planet for its entire forty-five million centuries, what would they have seen? Over most of that vast time-span, earth’s appearance altered very gradually. Continents drifted; i
The day after the United Nations World Food Day which we observed on Tuesday, October 16, the world body on Wednesday marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty with the significant theme being “Coming together with those furth
This is a country which is harping on solving its ‘national question’; how to find a viable solution to the grievances of the minority Tamils.
The GMOA, under the signatures of their President Anuruddha Padeniya and Secretary Haritha Aluthge had sent a two page letter in Sinhala to President Maithripala Sirisena, with copies to the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, to the Speaker of Parl
It is natural for one to recall the leaders of the constituent parties of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) crowning of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) some time ago as the sole representatives of the Tamil people, when the TNA leader Raj
The United States and Britain killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq and faced no punishment.
Sri Lankan politics is full of confusions, contradictions and contrasts. The political situation was hotting up even with the possibility of a change of government a week ago. It happened after speculation was rife that President Maithripala Sirise
The previous regime is supposed to have had a disastrous foreign policy which made for terrible foreign relations. That was what the detractors of that regime told us. Today they are in power and their detractors say the same thing: ‘This gov
The economy and minority Tamils are the key issues that the islanders have to address if they need to prosper and make this country a ‘real’ paradise. Of the two, the latter being resolved could happen sooner if genuine efforts are made
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday marked World Food Day and in a statement the world body revealed the intolerable wrong of hunger where one person in nine does not have enough to eat.
The mercurial rise of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini at a time French President Emmanuel Macron’s domestic approval ratings hit an all-time low, has become a concern not only in Europe but the rest of the world as well. Afte
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“Brothers, you are all killing your fellow countrymen. No soldier has to obey an order to kill. It is time to regain your conscience. In the name of God and in the name of the suffering people I implore you, I beg you, I order you, stop the r
“The most dangerous man to any Government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the Government he lives under is dishonest, i
The Supreme Court has ruled that certain Articles of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution Bill presented in the Parliament in May by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) as a private member’s Bill were inconsistent with the Constitution. It has al
America’s Vice-President Mike Pence has warned that Hambantota ‘may soon become a forward military base’ for the PLA Navy. In a speech at Hudson institute, Pence launched a broadside against China’s ‘predatory’ tra
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s remark that an IMF bailout package to Pakistan should not be used by the latter to pay off its debt to China, is partly meant to put a strain on Islamabad’s relations with Beijing.
The Supreme Court verdict on Sirisena Cooray’s FR plea became an international sensation two decades ago when People’s Alliance Government of Chandrika Bandaranaike acted ultra vires.
Liberal-minded Sri Lankans have for long looked on the US as a bastion of democracy, a defender of freedom, democratic values and a promoter of human rights the world over.
Delivering the keynote address at yet another Indian Ocean conference, titled ‘The Indian Ocean – Defining our Future’ at Temple Trees last week, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe asked....
The Jaffna International Cinema Festival, held earlier this month, lost considerable credibility, both as a film festival and as an event of international standing, following the controversial removal....
Mark Field’s visit to Sri Lanka is very, very significant. His pronouncements are threaded by the paternalistic air of an Etonian schoolmaster pontificating to students.
What do we have to truly fear about President Donald Trump? Last week, he pulled off the successful re-negotiation of the North America Free Trade area. Pundits thought, with Canadarefusing to bend, it couldn’t happen. Maybe the deal now leans
In 1950, the Mills Brothers and in 1967, the famous American singer Al Martino sang a beautiful and heart-warming song about “Daddy’s Little Girl.” It goes like this: “You’re the end of the rainbow, my pot of gold, You&r
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