The leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa and his party, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) are very much in the news lately.

What is the deeper meaning of Jesus’s death and resurrection? How does it serve his message? What is the importance of his Gospel message for our contemporary world? Is it still relevant?

The Bill, if enacted in the current form might become counterproductive to those who vote for it as well.

French President Macron is presently on a visit to China. IMF Chief von der Leyen too will be in that country. Speaking in Brussels last week Ms vonder Leyen publicly criticised China’s ‘no limits’ ties with....

“I am just the average American citizen, formerly a housewife, now an activist, who cannot stand quietly by while my government enacts and enforces laws that are unfair, unbalanced and just plain....

This is not a sports page, but an editorial comment on the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) on the theme scoring for People and the Planet.

A few weeks ago, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) posted a ‘wanted’ advertisement for a Financial Consultant ‘to provide guidance on investment decisions, cash management and day-to-day organizational expenses

President’s Counsel, Saliya Peiris, immediate outgoing President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL),

I wish to begin this article with a very broad assertion, namely, Sri Lanka’s present economic crisis is the result of a series of deliberate and short-sighted policy measures taken by post-liberalization regimes since 1977.

Since his assumption to the office of president, Ranil Wickremesinghe has on numerous occasions referred to Lanka’s strategic location on important trade routes in the Indian Ocean. He has emphasised the need to make maximum use of this position.

The headline of this article is not mine; rather, it echoes the collective wish of the majority of Sri Lankans who took the brunt of the economic freefall and who now see, with a sense of relief, that their....

Leaders of the government since lately have been claiming that Sri Lanka would be an education hub with plans to establish new universities and to upgrade existing universities in a manner that they....

The government has introduced different income brackets under the ‘Pay As You Earn Tax’ (PAYE) system. If you earn between 100,000 to 141,667 rupees per month, you’ll be charged 6% in taxes....

Sri Lanka’s history of ethnic conflict and insurgencies since gaining independence in 1948 has left a long-lasting impact on the nation, particularly with the Sinhala and Tamil ethnic groups. After a brutal...

The economic crisis and ethnic problem the have for long been fermenting in our country. The issues date back to the time of independence where we received and expected subsidized food....

Sri Lanka for the first time in its history defaulted on its external debt a year ago on 12 April 2022. As with the large debt overhang of many developing countries – including in particular the few countries....

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin (MK Stalin) the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State in India, unveiled the name board of a road with a new name on March 24 2023.

War mongering and brinkmanship are escalating in the European theatre, where the US and NATO are fighting a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. On March 14, a US MQ-9 Reaper drone was brought down over the Black Sea by Russian fighter jets, after the

The Local Government Elections, which were first scheduled to be held on March 9 and then rescheduled for April 25, are destined to be postponed again as the Government seems to be determined not to release funds for it.

The Sinhala-Tamil New Year is fast approaching and people are having mixed thoughts about how much they should spend on purchases. This is the time to buy garments because by the time April dawns....

Politics is the art of the possible. As long as politics remains, this quotable quote famously uttered by 19th Century German statesman Otto Von Bismarck will also remain. In real politics, nations and politicians....

If 2023 is just like any other year, as women’s history month wraps up this Friday, slowly but surely, women’s faces slowly fall off the panels, roundtables, stages and meeting rooms, and everyone’s favourite buzzword, “empowerment” is reti

Today in Sri Lanka, President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the splintered Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) government are trying pull the country out of its worst ever socioeconomic crisis since independence in 1948.

A photo and a video of a melanistic black leopard cub spotted at the Yala National Park is being shared widely on social media since last Friday(March 24). According to records, a black leopard has been spotted in Yala after about 50 years.

Rahul Samantha Hettiarachchi, my colleague from the deep south is a bit of cocky character. Abrasive at times, hard to deal with. But he is a heck of a journalist. he is one....

Today once again a repetition of the ‘Cold war’ between the US and Russia is threatening to spill over into a military confrontation in the battlefields of Europe. The epicenter Ukraine – where the US....

Opposition MP Harsha de Silva, in response to the President’s speech on the IMF agreement, said that he was relieved that the Government had finally obtained the approval of the IMF Board for the USD 3...

It was a warm April night. You could say typical, notwithstanding global warming and vagaries of weather. But something exceptional happened.

The recent visit to Jaffna, after several years of forbidden travel due to the pandemic, provided an opportunity to revisit areas of interest and observe the changes, including positive and negative developments, in both the economic and social front