Hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, rampant corruption, rising oil prices and economic mismanagement under previous governments....

A weekly paper said on Sunday that the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is to revive an earlier proposal to set up a Truth and Reconciliation.....

Mr. Gunapala Kannangara father of Former Colombo/ Ratnapura and Ampara District Secretary Sunil Kannangara passed away....

Three new political party alliances are preparing for the forthcoming elections, while the country is reeling under an unprecedented economic crisis. Two alliances comprising of a few small parties headed by Wimal Weerawansa and another small section

Ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is back after a whirlwind tour of self-exile that took him to the Maldives, to Singapore, and finally to Thailand. None of his hosts was enthused to have him for longer and Gotabaya himself seemed to have felt that the

There are several proposals in the Interim Budget that are desirable such as those relating to public sector instit

The International Monetary Fund has tentatively offered Sri Lanka a US$2.9 billion (£2.5bn) loan to help the country recover from the worst economic crisis. The funding is meant to provide some....

Last week in Colombo might have appeared eventful. An Interim Budget was announced for the last four months of the year, a Staff Level agreement was reached with the International Monetary Fund....

In a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, a woman survivor of the Holocaust is having coffee at a roadside café many years after the war when she sees Adolf Hitler crossing the street. Terrified....

Blessed are those Sri Lankans who have lived in different parts of the country, travelled widely within its borders and interacted with all people cutting across ethnic and religious barriers during times of peace and tranquillity in the past. Those

The government’s move to restructure state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as SriLankan Airlines, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has irked the trade unions in those institutions.

In Sri Lanka, racism and racial riots have often created crises. The first riots against the Tamil-speaking people took place in 1958 and thereafter several times, the worst being in 1983.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, died on Tuesday at the age of 91 in a Moscow hospital, without confirming or....

State employees in general need to lift their performance as workers. This is the general thinking of people who visit state....

The protests that started in mid-March and culminated in the storming of the President’s House and Presidential Secretariat on....

On the evening of August 30 this year, Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last President of the Soviet Union passed away. It marked the end of an era and the demise of a man of great integrity.

US Ambassador Julie Chung was spot on. A few days ago, she pointed out, correctly, that ‘fake news - and fake tweets - are a real problem.

Yesterday President Ranil Wickremesinghe submitted his government’s interim budget to parliament. It comes at a time of desperation.....

In a community survey conducted by a TV station over the weekend, a girl of about five years old, was heard saying that she has been served with an egg by her mother only on the day her father brings home his salary. This heart-wrenchin

Sri Lanka ranks 102 out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s corruption perception index. However, in terms of grand corruption, or the corruption at the highest level, and capable of distorting entire national policy, it rivals African

The demand in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the repeal of Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and its replacement with a law consistent with international norms has been persistent. In the September 2022 session of the council,

Europe considers itself to be among ‘the most civilized nations in the world’. Yet, here we are in the 21st century witnessing death....

President Ranil Wickremesinghe is everyone’s problem, and hostility to his presidency has been mounting from day one. He didn’t help.....

Friday August 26th was the 95th birth anniversary of well-known Sri Lankan Tamil political leader and one-time leader of the opposition Appapillai Amirthalingam.

In the aftermath of the COVID pandemic and the unprecedented public uprising against the former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa or the socio-economic and political crisis,

The commonwealth games have come to an end with several members of the Sri Lankan team gone missing which had made a mockery of the Sri Lanka points table as Gold - 0, Silver -1, Bronze-3, Missing-10, Found-2, bringing much embarrassment to the count

Sri Lanka is a country which begins the day with Buddhist hymns being aired on all televisions early in the morning. When....

While an International Monetary Fund delegation is in Sri Lanka to hold further talks on a staff-level agreement, a preliminary step....

During a recent speech to the audience at an economics seminar, President Ranil Wickremesinghe suggested that the IMF bailout will require a restructuring of domestic debt, referring to Treasury Bonds and US Dollar-denominated Sri Lanka Development B

The recent Sri Lanka-India-China triangular controversy over the docking of the Chinese research vessel Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port, once again underscores the need to have a Sri Lankan National Maritime Strategy, a functioning National Security C