Presenting his first budget on Monday, Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe said a new economic order would be introduced to suit world trends and highlighted that Sri Lanka would embark on this new path through the 2023 budget.

There are two questions. First, does research really matter or rather does research drive decisions when it comes to policy planning? Second, what is the role or research institutes or, put another way, do policy-makers understand the worth of such b

Everyone believes that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the only solution to overcome the prevailing economic crisis in Sri Lanka.

President Wickremesinghe’s 2023 budget was a big change from the usual run-of the-mill budgets the people of this country have been used to hearing. There were no big promises of looking into easing the burdens of the poor and n

The whole episode of police harassment was captured in cameras and video clips are now circulating on social media, which, in return prompted the IGP to order an investigation. The two women, who resumed their march were again harassed by the cops in

Media yesterday reported that a special police investigation has been launched against the Panadura South HQI and his team after they were caught on camera physically assaulting two female protestors....

In the recent past, Sri Lanka has dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic and now an ongoing economic crisis. Sri Lanka has faced both the pandemic and economic crisis after the end of the country’s civil war....

Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis in years. The acute shortage of US dollars in the country has pushed up the price of basic food items including milk, an essential ingredient....

The Dhanushka Gunathilake scandal raises disturbing questions not just about one individual, but our entire sports culture, including its star game, cricket. Dhanushka was....

Most Ven.. Pallegama Hemarathana Thero, who created lyrics for Karunarathna Divulgane’s ‘Atheethaya Sihinayak Pamanai sabesuvadak ne’; [loosely translated…, ‘Past is just a dream, where there....

Our world, mother to all species inhabiting the planet is ailing and is slowly but surely killed off by cancer. The cancer of human greed.

Facebook and Twitter must be having field days. No — they are having such.

Much has been written and said in the last few days since the news was released that a Sri Lankan cricketer has been charged with sexual assault by an Australian woman.

The Opposition political parties are again accusing that the government was going to postpone the elections, especially the local government elections. This is the third time these parties have been making....

Schools and universities are again producing news for all the wrong reasons. The last few days we heard of how two primary school kids were brutally abused for allegedly stealing money from a teacher’s....

Yet another high-profile climate summit and yet another half-hearted attempt by big-time polluters and rich nations to put the world on a war footing to face the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced....

It has been a year and five months since the vessel X-Press Pearl caught fire and sank. What the islanders are left with is the massive ocean and coastal pollution which resulted from the accident involving....

Sri Lanka is still in one hell of a mess burning in its worst ever socio-economic and political crisis since independence in 1948.

Your article on November 1 Daily Mirror triggered my memory regarding an intervention we tried in the early 1990s to correct this problem.

Although armed with the power of the State and empowered to use force against ordinary citizens, Police is accountable like any organization or any ordinary citizen.

Corporal punishment in schools is often perceived as an effective way to discipline children, but such cruel approaches have many detrimental impacts on the physical and psychological well-being of a child.

Over 2020 and 2021 the COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented economic and labour market crisis around the world; mostly as a consequence of the lockdown and other containment measures used....

If you are a cricket fan, you remember that video. Even if you are not, you should. The 29-second grainy video of two men at a city square, searching for or waiting....

Even as this column is being written, our country is making world headlines for all the wrong reasons once again. This time in the field of cricket. It was only 31 short years ago; on July 21, 1981 to be exact....

After eight Tamil detainees were released on a Presidential pardon on October 24, the day on which Hindus celebrated Deepavali, the Presidential ....

Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilake, who is accused of allegedly sexually assaulting an Australian woman, he met on Tinder....

Sri Lanka is gradually coming under the influence of the West, with the non-Western powers clearing the ground for that. China is dragging....

I was going to continue with the second part of my analysis of the dilemma faced by the people’s struggle (Aragalaya), not simply.....

Art nourishes your soul and can also fix your mood. You can also buy art and get closer to the colours and the meaning they portray. But it would....

‘Neth Suwaya’ Eye camp donating free spectacles to those in the fishing communities in and around Negombo was organized by Sustainable....