Sri Lanka’s economy is collapsing with people pushed to the brink of starvation. There is mounting anger towards the Government.....

Has the ‘Aragalaya’ died or is it rising from the ashes? Protests in the country are springing up by the day in one part of the country....

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ceased to exist as a functioning entity after its military defeat on the shores of Nandhikkadal lagoon in May 2009.

We all as concerned citizens bemoan and cry over the current plight of our dear motherland.

The war in Ukraine is now entering its ninth month and is stalemated. On the one hand, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is driving Finland and Sweden into the arms of the NATO bloc and with it, the probability of US and NATO troops and missiles closer

The Maha Season is approaching and there is great concern within the agriculture community. One of the biggest concerns is farmers not receiving fertilizer at the expected time. When the farmers....

Benjamin Netanyahu is a suspected war criminal. The adjective ‘suspected’ is added here to conform to journalistic ethics and in deference to a judicial principle where a person is not guilty until proven....

Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) leader Patali Champika Ranawaka subsequent to the adoption of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution said that there are 10 members of Parliament with dual citizenship. He observed....

Many people predict that Sri Lanka is on the verge of a famine due to an imminent food shortage in Sri Lanka by 2023. However, it seems that there is a possibility of an acute food crisis....

In major religions, leaders and scholars have been proclaiming that our spirituality needs to go wider and deeper by our active and effective involvement in poverty alleviation,

A good hearted woman, Barbara Undershaft, devotes all energies to help the poor as a major in the Salvation Army. She sees Andrew, her millionaire father, an arms dealer, as someone who needs to be saved.

The appointment of the new Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) was shrouded in controversy after former Chairman, Prof. Charitha Herath was overlooked by the ruling party when nominating the new members.

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, designated as COP27, will be held from November 6 to 18 at Sharm El Sheikh....

Our country continues to limp through the worst financial crisis which hit it since independence. Our outstanding foreign debt remains....

From announcing the countrywide hourly power cuts to increasing the electricity tariffs in places of worship, from monitoring the purchasing....

Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has on October 26 requested Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to appoint a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to recommend reforms in all three tiers of elections in the country, Pa

Britain now has a British Asian, Hindu Prime Minister, though Rishi Sunak is whiter than White in his policies and richer than the Brit

Living in a hamlet surrounded by five temples, a catholic church and a mosque, I am inundated with multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious mélange of highly amplified loudspeaker sounds, that include.....

As the world watched in fascination, five days ago - on October 30 to be exact, Rishi Sunak of Indian extraction, became Britain’s first Prime Minister of colour - a former colonial, has now become....

Over the past week media -both traditional as well as social media- has been focusing on the ugly incident which took place at the world famed Yala sanctuary on the 23rd of this month.

At the outset we as sovereign voters exhort that all Politicians and the people with the ‘Country at heart’ must realize and agree that the objective of holding Local Govt.(LG) elections is not to test the popularity or unpopularity of their part

Children in Sri Lanka are not safe when in the company of unknown adults. And when reading recent news we get to understand that even....

On what grounds the majority of Parliamentarians of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) voted in favour of the 22nd Amendment....

We often come across reports about VIP sons and their friends sneaking into national parks of Sri Lanka in private vehicles for joyriding. A similar incident....

President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government has taken several practical steps to rescue Sri Lanka from its worst ever socio-economic....

Asad Heider in his highly acclaimed book ‘Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump’ contends that identity politics cannot....

On October 16th, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened in Beijing. I was honoured to join with leaders....

The first workshop I ever attended on journalism was a fancy two-day affair. Held at the Blue Waters, funded and conducted by the European....

Our population is aging. According to ‘Pension Watch’, in 2018, approximately 2,507,630 people were over 60 years of age and....

The much touted 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was passed in Parliament on Friday with 174 votes for and none against. Only one vote was cast against it during the second reading of the debate on the Amendment, but the same dissenting MP, Sarath