Charitha Marcus, a Sri Lankan lecturer pursuing her doctoral studies in Ireland, has been awarded with the Eda Sagarra Medal of Excellence....

According to news flash and revelations by President, business tycoons that include Cheevaradharin have beaten politicos and....

Last Thursday, a haze which many people believed to be a blanket of mist covered Colombo’s environs. However, the day’s particular....

Today, powerful countries believe their world outlook is infallible, their security sacrosanct and lesser nations and states must fall in line... or face unenviable consequences. The powerful continue to ride roughshod over smaller countries.

After weeks of speculation and allegation by the Opposition parties that the government was going to postpone the local government elections,

The drug menace raising its head inside schools and children falling prey to narcotics is a great cause for concern. The habit of depending on something like a drug....

The independent Police Commission’s recent verdict exonerating a senior police officer from charges of inappropriately pushing two female officers, though shocking, failed to generate public anger....

The sugar scam amounting up to 16 billion rupees has again become a hot topic for discussion. Those involved in this scam were accused of evading paying government tax. Businessmen with close....

Six to seven million Sri Lankans are reportedly undergoing tremendous hardship for their second meal every day.

Cabinet of Ministers of Sri Lanka has made several decisions over the last few years giving rise to disastrous results to its citizens.

With Sri Lanka still facing its worst ever socio-economic and political crisis since independence in 1948, President Ranil Wickremesinghe is striving to pull the country out of its debt crisis

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will be meeting the Tamil parties of the Northern and Eastern Provinces on December 11 to find a solution to the longstanding Tamil issue. But the chances....

This is the time of the year that newspapers start working on the year that was segments. 2022 will not give that much trouble to fill a page or more with such a diary. Taking a leaf off the traditional....

Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has run up losses of billions of rupees in the first quarter of 2022. Our sister publication the ‘Daily FT’ reports Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera....

Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) engineers on November 29 have warned of a power cut of more than 10 hours from April to October next year, due to the delay in coal supply for the coal power plants. Three days later, the Chairman of the Public Utilitie

After 400 protestors died and sentencing to death of an unknown, countless number in order to suppress a popular uprising against the regime, Iran’s hard-line Mullahs have suddenly made a U-turn, shutting down the infamous m

National budgets reveal the economic policies for the following year, and at historic moments the shift in the economic policy trajectory for a number of years. The recently announced Budget 2023....

The current literacy rate in our country is estimated to stand at 92.3% - one of the highest in the Asian region. Yet, at the time we received independence from Britain in 1946, the literacy rate in the country....

During eighties Dr. Ananda Tissa de Alwis, the State Minister under the J.R. Jayewardene government was the Cabinet spokesman who conducted the weekly press briefings.

In August this year US House Speaker Pelosi, despite suggestions from president Biden’ to avoid visiting Taiwan landed in that country.

A. M. Sugath Premalal hails from Ranawarawa and has lived with the human-elephant conflict ever since he can remember.

People who have remained here in Sri Lanka are working harder than before to make ends meet. Some among them are seen opting to buy lottery tickets; in most cases this is a new found habit. There....

On Wednesday at the Education City Stadium at Al-Rayan in Qatar, Tunisia beat defending champions France. As the jubilant Tunisian fans and supporters celebrated despite their failure to go to the second....

On different occasions, information released to the public, regarding our external sovereign debt have not been very exact.

Such diversity! Such passion! Such innovation and creativity! Such courage and heroism! Such were and still are the encomiums floating around in mainstream and new media about the Aragalaya.

In a much-anticipated move, the Cabinet yesterday approved to revoke the 2019 and 2022 circulars on the official attire of staff grade officers in the State sector,

Last we heard of a drug menace of this magnitude in Sri Lanka was almost four decades ago. With the war came the narcotics. Now....

President Ranil Wickremesinghe is the most literate, widely read and informed president we have ever had, after Chandrika Kumaratunga....

The prime responsibility of the Army is to provide protection to the citizens and safeguard territorial Integrity and Sovereignty

Against the backdrop of President Ranil Wickremesinghe having called on all political parties in Parliament to put their heads together to resolve the long due ethnic problem, Tamil parties representing the Northern and Eastern Pro