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

Recently, a rather unusual and indeed needless debate hobbled the country’s schools after a group of teachers ditched their sarees, the standard attire for female teachers in public schools, in favour of more comforting clothing of the

Socio-economic rights are fundamental to every human being. The concept of socio-economic rights encompasses a vast array of rights.  They include the basic needs of human beings such as rights to housing, health care, food and social security, educ

It has been my practice to write an article about Late Laith Athulathmudali on his birth anniversary. However this year I feel compelled....

The Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, considered as the pioneer in Management....

Tomorrow November 29, is recognized by the United Nations (UN) as the day of solidarity with the Palestinian people. The date of November 29 was chosen because of its meaning and significance....

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their....

The second reading of the budget was passed on the 22nd of this month. The budget offered no relief to the people and is widely believed to have been drawn up in line with International Monetary Fund (IMF) requirements One-hundred-and-twenty-one MPs

Inter University Bikkhu Federation Convener Ven. Galwewa Siridhamma Thera who was detained along with Convener of the Inter University Student Federation (IUSF) Wasantha Mudalige under a ninety-day detention order issued by President Ranil Wickremesi

A photograph appearing recently in our sister paper ‘The Sunday Times’ showed how a teacher and some students of a remote school in Puttalam were conducting traditional rites to mark the opening....

Qatar, the host of the 2022 Football World Cup, lost the opening game to Ecuador 2-0. But it has already emerged a mighty winner. We are not talking about the successful manner in which it is conducting....

If over 30% of school children drop out of school in the beginning of next year that should not be a surprise.

Human rights have become a major issue in Sri Lanka since President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected as President in 2019.

International enslavement remains a modern-day scourge that affects the world. Due to Sri Lanka’s present economic crisis, more Sri Lankan women will become enslaved as many more leave the country to escape poverty; Our darkest worries have now com

The world’s biggest extravaganza, the quadrennial (four-yearly) FIFA World Cup, has begun in Qatar. It’s been 12 years since it was.....

It was in 2009 that I first started using Twitter. It had been around for a while by then. During those days, the main network for instant....

The Public Service Commission (PSC) reportedly has blocked two retired senior public officers, their due salaries/ pensions allegedly.....

The last week’s revelation of a seeming sex trafficking racket by a group consisting of employment agents and state officials is not something that we hear for the first time. So many times before we have seen Sri Lankan women speaking from so-call

As former President Mahinda Rajapaksa celebrated his 77th birthday last week, one might have pondered over the legacy of Rajapaksa or more accurately, of the Rajapaksas, the familiocracy he presided over.

The Islamic revolution in Iran, in 1979 saw the overthrow of the US and British-backed Shah (Monarch). Since its founding, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been in conflict with the US and Britain. Th

Colombo, November 14: Scholars have pointed out that Sri Lanka has an Army far too big for its size and population, and has a military that i

When our country collapses before our own eyes with one of the deepest crises in historical memory, from what vantage point.....

The Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) (of 1978 first enacted as a temporary measure in 1979 under J. R. Jayewardene was....

We explain the proposed new tax reforms in Sri Lanka and what it means

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader and Trincomalee district MP Rajavarothayam Sampanthan wrote a politically important letter to President Ranil Wickremesinghe on September 14, 2022. In that detailed missive, the veteran Tamil MP pinpointed seve

Although six convicts of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case were released by the Indian Supreme Court on November 12, four of them have been again detained as they are Sri Lankans who had entered India without proper travel documents. They are being

The G20 (Group of Twenty) -initially an informal gathering of 20 of the world’s largest economies- was formed in 1999, in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. An attempt to co-ordinate global policy on trade, health, climate, and other issues.

We talk much about youth these days with so much concern. There is no doubt they have to deal with frustration given the skyrocketing prices of goods and services and both the state and private sectors....

On Tuesday, the world woke up to the dreaded possibility of a nuclear genocide capable of wiping out half the world’s population which reached the 8 billion mark only hours before. What happened....