The garbage disaster, which exploded at Meethotamulla on the National New Year’s Day, is still contaminated with much controversy...

What an Independence Day gift to Donald Trump from Kim Jung-un.  Alaska is now within North Korea’s reach. It is only a matter of....

The tussle between the two factions within the TNA/ITAK is nothing but a crude power struggle. It has got nothing to do with the....

The most apt portfolio of all is that of Lakshman Kiriella, said the three-wheeler driver, while we were caught in the traffic for.....

Constitutional Lawyer Kalyana Thiranagama spoke to the Daily Mirror on the implications of the 19th Amendment to the.....

Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne denied President Maithripala Sirisena having had an official.....

Is SAITM a problem? Though there are several alternative solutions already in place, the authorities have shown little competence....

The SAITM issue is still at a stalemate. Public protests, student and trade union demonstrations are gathering.....

How the Ministers of Dudley Senanayake’s National Government handled the gentlemen Medical Officers in 1967 - exactly 50 years ago. There was no strike, only ‘Work-to Rule’ campaign that paralysed the entire health services island

The government faced intense heat from those protesting private medical education in the country. The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA), backed by university students and their parents, in main, mounted its campaign leaving the

The poultry industry in Sri Lanka has shown a phenomenal growth over the recent past thereby making poultry products essential food items in local menus. The demand for chicken and eggs has therefore been met by local producers. This is a story abo

JVP Uva Provincial Council Member Samantha Vidyaratne, who also spearheads the people’s movement against the controversial Uma Oya Project, spoke about the current status of the issue and the political future of his party. The excerpts of the

The Mahanayaka Theras of the three Nikayas and other Sangha Sabhas, expressing their opinion on constitutional reform, have made it clear that they are opposed to moves that could generate crises. While calling for immediate electoral reform, this

The Government has started the blame game again, this time on the ill-conceived Uma Oya project which has turned into a catastrophe for the people in the Bandarawela area. Earlier it was the issues over the South Asian Institute of Technology and M

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence-

Discontent is a word weak in intensity to describe a Government fast losing support it held in 2015. The climate is not conducive for holding any election - fear of exposing an eroding vote base for the Government. 

The need for feasible environmental friendly approaches for development projects and policy planning has been felt as vital elements, especially in the facet of addressing issues related to natural disasters including garbage management in Sri Lank

Last week I saw the most honest, courageous and important piece of art --and certainly movie-- on Sri Lanka done by a Sri Lankan. Directed by Jude Ratnam, it is called “Demons in Paradise” and has already been screened at Cannes. It is

Many thought the suave and sophisticated Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, had easy way up the political ladder being the son of a two time prime minister.

The blazing battle between United States President Donald Trump and the US media provides good headline lessons for Sri Lanka’s media....

Following adverse national and international media coverage of lynching of Muslims for eating beef or selling cattle for slaughter, India’s Prime Minister....

Though the Assistance to and Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses Act, No. 4 of 2015 was implemented last year, its performance....

Dikgang Moseneke was the former Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa. He was an unswerving judge who served in the Constitutional.....

Mangala Samaraweera, the new finance minister wants to open liquor shops on Poya Days. In an opinion poll in the Daily Mirror website....

Ahead of President Maithripala Sirisena’s visit to Bangladesh, Bangladeshi High Commissioner M. Riyaz Hamidullah, in an interview.....

Freedom of expression, right to a religion and attacks on minority religions have been in discussion within the last couple of days. It has raised....

The protests calling to close SAITM and their violent repression raise several questions. Is the Government’s insistence on....

We Sri Lankans appear to be a bunch of lotus eaters - living dreamy lives and indifferent to important issues which challenge us...

The United Nations is often scapegoat for the falling short of its peacekeeping troops and deployments. Why are they not in Syria or Yemen, Libya or along the Palestinian/Israeli border? 

In this era of microchips and digital technology, it is significant that the United Nations for the first time last Tuesday June 27, marked Micro- Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Day. This was because the UN says enterprises which generally employ