Rear Admiral Justin Jones CSC RAN, Commander of the Joint Agency Task Force Operation Sovereign Borders and Lucienne Manton, Australia’s People Smuggling and Human Trafficking Ambassador....

Peradeniya Arts Faculty Teachers’ Association (PAFTA) in a statement has strongly condemned the conduct of a certain group of undergraduates who called themselves ‘Raggers’ and unleashing violence against....

Sri Lanka is a country that needs a lot of food now to feed many hungry mouths. Something that alarms us is that many of these mouths are that of children. Many programmes have been....

Saturday’s devastating blast on the bridge that connects mainland Russia with Crimea, which is now under Russia, is, no doubt, a terrorist attack. It cannot be labelled as an act of war or brought under....

Andreas Hergenröther, a German economic expert with speacial knowledge about Asia, shares his insights on the merits of Private Public Partnership (PPP) models for Sri Lanka to revive the economy. He underscores...

October 11 is commemorated the world over as the year of the ‘Girl Child’.The International Day of the Girl Child was first focused on, at the Beijing Declaration in 1995 at the World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Indra Mani Pandey. Remember the name. He’s India’s Permanent Representative in Geneva. He’s no novice in matters diplomatic, having joined the service more than 30 years ago.

The people of Sri Lanka are going through extremely difficult times. They are hungry and rightfully they are protesting. This is especially....

On April 1 this year I awoke to over 500 messages that had accumulated on my phone overnight. For weeks, my home country of....

The Cabinet this week will take up a proposal to voluntarily downgrade Sri Lanka from a Middle- Income Country to a Low-Income country.....

The abolition of executive Presidency in general and the proposed 22nd Amendment to the Constitution currently are best two cases.....

Looking at the voting on the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution on Sri Lanka on October 6, it appears that the decisions taken....

An all-religious ceremony and a milk rice alms offering was held at Sri Dalada Maligawa, Kandy on 16.09.2022 to Mark the 60th Anniversary.....

Our country, in the words of no less a person than our president, is bankrupt. To use a colloquialism, we are ‘stone broke’. Our international debt which we are unable to repay and have defaulted stands at a staggering US$ 51 billion.

Volumes have been written on her ‘Temple Trees’ days but her nursery, pre-teen, adolescent and young housewife times at ‘Ella

Sri Lanka is facing the worst disaster since independence in 1948. Though the new President Ranil Wickremesinghe is taking practical steps nationally and internationally to reduce the heavy socio-economic burdens on the people,

The government seems to be more interested in suppression of people’s agitations rather than looking into the root causes of them and resolving those issues for good.

The Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill presented by the Minister of Justice is a shocking legislative proposal that must be rejected by the Parliament of Sri Lanka.

Much is spoken of students and their achievements, but seldom are teachers highlighted for their contributions made to the field of education. We all know that teachers draw paltry salaries. However....

So Ukraine is winning the war against mighty Russia, an enemy which is armed to the teeth with earth-destroying nuclear weapons. It appears to be so if we are to believe western media...

In some corner of the world, atop a mountain, in a cave, by a stream, in a coffee shop or a corporate office, there could be someone who is a saint.

A tourist fresh from his/her homeland walking or driving along the roads of Colombo, could not be faulted for mistaking our country as a middle income nation. Luxury apartments and shopping malls have sprung up in all parts of the capital. Fancy and

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Tokyo on Tuesday, that Sri Lanka....

On an everyday basis, international news headlines are filled with gory stories of death and destruction coming out of the war in....

In view of the repression on peaceful protesters and the present Government’s failure to resolve the issues faced by the people....

Against a huge increase in electricity tariff having been announced last month, the authorities are warning of longer hours of

President Ranil Wickremesinghe during the weekend revoked a previous Gazette notification that declared several areas of Colombo as High-Security Zones (HSZs), but not before the original proclamation caused an uproar. On Saturd

The need for justice, truth and reparation for crimes under international law, human rights violations and abuses committed by state officials and armed opposition groups has been.....

The export of tea is one of our country’s main export earners and Sri Lanka’s tea industry performed well in 2021 earning US$ 1.3 billion, despite lower yields and higher costs of production. Chairman of....

There is no national policy for fertilizer. “Our attempt is to supply fertilizer for the Maha Season. If farming becomes a success, we could manage the rest of our problems. We have to increase our.....