In President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s verbal blitzkrieg during his October 4 interview with Germany’s public broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, slamming the Western media’s prejudice against the global south....

Besides Sri Lanka’s economic disaster, which has plunged tens of thousands of families into poverty, climate change has disfigured weather patterns, with prolonged droughts hitting people at unexpected....

In recent times, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been making headlines with his candid and outspoken remarks on critical geopolitical issues during his foreign visits. His latest interview with DW News in Germany, although more of a verbal sparrin

Sri Lanka has seen the first advertisement of a political campaign appearing on television these days. There is no clear date for any election, but this advertisement remind us about the system change we voiced for and where protesters or revolutioni

Today, 4th October will be 5000 days since the disappearance of cartoonist, journalist and human rights defender Prageeth Ekneligoda. It is also nearly 5000 days since I first met his wife Sandya Ekneligoda....

If you follow, with a sense of detachment, what is happening in this country and the loudest of local reactions to these domestic and foreign developments, you cannot help but be...

Today is World Animal Day, a day where we celebrate and value all the beautiful animals who share our country, and world, with us. A lot of positive change has....

It is not the ordinary people, especially the poor who are responsible for the current economic crunch, they are only the victims who are bearing the brunt of it. However, the Government seems to believe that they have to bear the major part of the b

Sikh gangsterism in Canada has had grave implications for India, given its links to the Khalistan separatist movement in the Indian province of Punjab. A section of Canadian Sikhs have been demanding a separate Khalistan for India’s Sikhs. This d

UNCTAD in its update Trade and Development Report released on 12 April warns that developing countries are facing years of difficulty as the global economy slows down amid heightened financial....

Sri Lanka’s economy is now on autopilot. The Government – emasculated of making any economic policies – is merely following the IMF and the World Bank. Sri Lanka’s Finance Ministry may as well...

The first part of this article was published in the Daily Mirror of 16 September 2023 under the heading Who is Hanzeer Azad Maulana the Whistleblower on Channel 4?.

The statement made by former JVP Parliamentarian Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa on the relationship between a future JVP/NPP government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a clear deviation from his party’s policy on the global lender.

By mid 2021 large numbers of young people were seen to be queuing up at our passport office. So much so that former president, turned prime Minister and now MP Mahinda Rajapaksa was force to remark that the young people who voted the government into

One month has elapsed since the passing of a distinguished public servant who dedicated his lifetime to service to the country through his multi-faceted public service contributions.

Leading Japanese scholar Prof. JIMBO Ken who has specialised in international relations was in Sri Lanka recently and shared his views in an interview with Daily Mirror on topics related to geopolitics and...

Legacies are not created out of thin air. They are the sum of one’s lifetime’s successes and failures, of achievements and unfulfillments, victories and defeats and above all, one’s commitment to a cause....

One key aspect about the many events lined up for September is that there is room for plenty of thoughts on religion. September is a month full of religious activities. And Sri Lanka being a multi-religious...

Like everything we use, there is good and bad in social media. The knife saves lives if used by a surgeon, but it can take a life if used by a killer. Similarly, social media, like fire, carries with it the properties...

In today’s dynamic global economic landscape, Sri Lanka stands at an important juncture, where the path to its economic prosperity...

T he current period is marked by significant challenges in various fields, with education being one of the main areas facing these challenges. Education is crucial for a country’s outlook and building a prosperous future generation is the foundatio

Today (28 September) marks the international day for universal access to information. This year’s theme is ‘the importance of the online....

World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day. It is the day in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. It is also the date in 1989 when the UN General Assembly adopte

Last week, Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF), which is in stiff competition with the TULF for the Northern Tamil votes, launched a commemoration campaign of Thileepan, a self-styled Lt. Colonel of the LTTE, who died in 1987 while engaging in a h

The recently established task force for the survey and preservation of archaeological sites in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka is a worthwhile endeavour as the preservation of a people’s cultural heritage is an important one.

Sri Lanka has long been celebrated for its commitment to free education, a legacy that has empowered generations to pursue their dreams, regardless of their socio-economic background. However, as we find ourselves at the crossroads of a rapidly evolv

Tamil women in Sri Lanka’s plantations are a marginalized lot within the marginalized plantation Tamils, who prefer to be called Hill Country or “Malaiyaha Tamils.” Women do the most critical job in the plantations, plucking tea leaves exactl

Relations between India and Canada have reached their lowest ebb, and relations between the two countries hit rock bottom after Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, in the Canadian parliament claimed there was strong evidence implicating the Indian gover

Our country is becoming or should we say has always been, notorious for the disconnected messages passed on to the public. Even....

The comments and statements highlight the ignorance of certain individuals who cannot distinguish between a cricket ball and a tennis...