Nominations closed yesterday for one of Sri Lanka’s biggest ever elections to 341 Municipal, Urban Council and Pradeshiya Sabhas. 

The television channels showed on Monday a man weeping after his name allegedly had been struck off from a nomination paper despite a promise to include him in the list by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) led by former President Mahinda Rajapak

It is the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem that we celebrate at Christmas. It is God’s entry into human history in the person of Jesus, the Saviour of the world. 

Last weekend I read somewhere, the MEP that’s in tow with the flower bud (Pohottuwa) Party with Rajapaksa at its helm, has lost one of their strongest Urban Councils with nominations for the Maharagama UC among few others getting rejected.

Pardon me for visiting you with another article on Jerusalem. 

We have not sold anything but only leased out. If you take Hambantota after seventy years we will become the major share holder

Not too long ago when economic, social, political circumstances were not too different to what we have now in Sri Lanka there were some individuals who shouted themselves hoarse insisting that Sri Lanka was a failed state. Maybe they’ve quite

Yesterday the United Nations marked the International Human Solidarity Day, with the main objective being unity in diversity—a vital factor for all countries to make progress and specially significant for Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the 26-

Elections can’t be held for another 24 months-till 2020- due to the stupidity evolved by the‘pundits’ on the 19th amendment. Manipulations have placed the UNP in serious trouble. If local Government elections aren’t held in

Renowned Pakistani diplomat Zamir Akram, in an email interview with the Daily Mirror spoke about Sri Lanka-Pakistan relations, the UNHRC process and the selective application of the international humanitarian law. Akram was the one time Pakist

There was no Machiavellian nuanced statecraft. There was no Dudley Senanayakian transparency and honesty. There was no Jayewardenesque stoicism. There was not even lofty but empty rhetoric of the likes of SWRD Bandaranaike. There was no veiled bril

It is all very simple really. This election is about you. If you vote for the UNP, you think that the country is better off under Ranil, is doing better and will do better under him as PM than it did when Mahinda 

Tea is our pride, of which we can be proud of for the reason that it is the best tea on the Globe. It is the duty of every Sri Lankan -- especially our Diplomatic Missions worldwide to defend and promote 

The Tamil media has recently quoted Deputy Elections Commissioner M.M. Mohamed as saying that the voters who do not use their franchise should be fined as in some other countries. Justifying his 

News of five tuskers being shot dead inside two weeks made headlines in newspapers, thus raising doubts among authorities and....

The country is awaiting with a mix of excitement and trepidation the Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the....

Headlines in the media the world over will trumpet the victory of the Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP)-led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Despite pledges being implemented, some dimensions of maintaining law and order and the rule of law, corruption and bribery are still...

Early this month, Sri Lanka along with three other nations, had the dubious honour of dominating the agenda of the first...

We have a new Elections Commission appointed in November 2015. It will go on until November 2020. It is the commission’s immense...

The baseless, opposing attitude to any decision taken in favour of national interests has become a common feature among the....

On October 15, 2017 Brig. Japana (Jaupana) Jayawardena was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Sri Lanka Rugby.....

The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) held its 21st National Congress recently. The Daily Mirror discussed the political, economic and...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan during a recent visit to India called on the British Government to apologize for the massacre in Amritsar by the....

It has been reported in the print media, that tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka would face a downward trend in the near future. The findings have been...

Last month Prime Ministers of Iran and Iraq announced with great pride the defeat of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. In a span of three years....

How do we respond to the recent railway union strike? Was it about higher salaries and administrative grades of railway workers? Or, was it a disruption....

Next Monday December 18 is international Migrants Day with the theme this year being Safe Migration in a World on the Move and....

Poets as diverse as William Blake and Yehuda Amichai have sung the praises of the heavenly Jerusalem, a land without strife or....

Warning: This article may contain ideas that religiously sensitive readers may find disturbing, despite efforts to keep the article balanced.