Over the last year, Sri Lanka was suffocating under a debt crisis and a so-called IMF solution, with little bargaining power to negotiate....

History was made last week when two former executive presidents of Sri Lanka were sanctioned by the Government of Canada.

Not many years ago -in 2010 to be exact- a particular past president of our country said his aim was to turn Lanka into ‘The Wonder of Asia’.Today in many ways, we have become a ‘Wonder of Asia’. Unfortunately NOT in the way or manner that pr

The You Tube video released by Social media activist Sepal Amarasinghe making derogatory remarks on the sacred tooth relic and Dalada Maligawa in Kandy has opened a can of worms as expected.

It is undoubtedly true that Sri Lanka, once a model for developing countries like Singapore, is facing its worst economic calamity since its independence in 1948. In fact, there are a plethora of reasons that could be attributed to the creation and e

“On the ill-fated day of 21st of April 2019, this island home was awoken rudely to witness one of its most tragic events in the annuls of its history and in a series of bomb explosions that sent the nation.....

Among the reprisals faced by prominent leaders of the people’s uprising last year were arrests, detentions, travel bans and continuing court cases. Many leaders have multiple court cases pending against them despite....

Sri Lanka’s politicians surprisingly aren’t desperate as yet. The educated and those wearing their thinking caps all the time are still a minority so they cannot be ready yet to offer an alternative to the people....

As the government and the ruling parties appear to be resorting to every trick in the book to postpone the long-overdue local council elections, the crucial question is whether elections are the most important....

With Sri Lanka still struggling to come out of its worst ever socio-economic crisis since independence, some non-party political experts have suggested some practical solutions which the government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka

When the then US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Teresita Currie Schaffer, insisted in the early 1990s that Sri Lanka’s food security lies in the wheat fields of North America,

Colombo District MP Patali Champika Ranawaka who heads the 43rd Brigade shares his views on the present political situation, local government elections and economics in response to questions directed at him by Dailymirror. Excerpts of the interview:

When re-examining the research papers of Rameez Aboobacker, a sociology professor and the current Vice Chancellor of the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, serious breaches of academic integrity.....

China prides itself in being an example to the less developed nations by its spectacular economic growth since the 1980s, thanks to innovation, hard work and leaders who put country first without enriching....

Two weeks ago, the world bid adieu to the year 2022. For us 2022 was particularly catastrophic. For the first time in our history, we defaulted on debt payment. So, we will definitely....

The recent controversial YouTube video released by social media activist Sepal Amarasinghe and his arrest has again brought the question of containment of social media to the fore. Those who always champion bridling of media c

On December 20, when he was produced before the court under STF protection, the attorney general informed the court that the charges levelled against the suspect did not fall under the PTA, which allowed his lawyers to request bail. He was released o

Positive moves are being made by both President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to resolve the seven decades-long ethnic issue. Following Wickremesinghe’s declared resolve to secure an agree

The Bagavanthalawa-Balangoda main road connecting the two districts Nuwara Eliya and Ratnapura is at risk of landslides due to the felling of Eucalyptus trees by the Department of Forest Conservation....

As this year (2023) dawns, the number of people who will be in need of humanitarian relief has increased by almost a quarter. According to the United Nations (UN), the worst global food crisis....

The Chairman of the National Elections Commission has stated that arrangements are already in place to conduct the LG Election by end of March 2023— that’s his job. He has also mentioned that Election....

Following the electricity tariff hike revision in August 2022, the Power and Energy Ministry announced another tariff hike that would have come into effect from January 1, 2023 on the basis that the tariff hike....

Friends,Family members, colleagues, schoolmates and admirers of Lasantha Wickrematunge are scheduled to meet on Sunday January 8th at the Kanatte cemetery in Borella.

Phase II of the Russo-Ukraine war has now entered is 12th month, (the first stage beginning with the annexation of Kiev in February of 2014), when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.

Barely a month is remaining for President Ranil Wickremesinghe to solve the decades-long ethnic problem,

Sri Lankans are mulling over two things right now; one is when the LG polls would be held and the other is how to purchase paddy for the next season. The latter....

Have the cake and eat it, too: This may be a hackneyed phrase. But it is an apt idiom to describe a desperate Sri Lankan government’s haphazard fiscal measures to shore up falling state revenues and maintain....

Local government elections are expected to be held in March this year. The governing central government parties have shown little enthusiasm toward the holding of local hustings. Those in opposition political parties meanwhile speak on the vital impo

The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), which rules the Indian Ocean archipelago, is torn between President Ibrahim Solih and former President and present-day parliament Speaker, Mohamed Nasheed, putting in question its prospects in the September 2023

The voice would boom through the corridors, “Hey bugger, what have you got for me?” Early morning hours during a mid-weekday in a Sunday newspaper and few staffers were just ambling in. I would be among them; most often returning to the office af