Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara who was in Qatar with Environment Minister Nazeer Ahmed on June 30, said that Sri Lanka had decided to lift the ban on ‘Qatar Charity’ which had been imposed following the Easter Sunday terro

The present economic crisis has affected virtually every sector and education is no exception. Apart from schools, universities were closed for the most part due to the pandemic and now the economic and fuel crises have precipitated t

The current state of our beloved nation could be broadly described as a story, a story that is excruciatingly painful to hear, w

In choosing my title I feel it may seem rather an arrogant one; but, when examined, it will be seen that exactly the opposite is the case. Have they, the Japanese....

Energy is a vital factor for any country’s economy and in Sri Lanka there is much public focus on the subject because of the power cuts the people are experiencing every day. The power cuts....

Sri Lanka is in the grip of simultaneous fuel and food crises, brought on by the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused a downturn in tourism and led to a shortage of foreign currency. To make....

Protests come in waves and July will be a month of struggle. The great mass of people are all talking politics. They are questioning the rulers for hours while waiting on petrol queues. Farmers....

Almost all Sri Lankans have reposed or they have been made by their leaders to repose all their hopes on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for their economic salvation.

With the Aragalaya or the public revolt against the Rajapaksa Government continuing for the 85th day and the crisis getting worse day by day with political leaders warning of a possible famine and hundreds of people surviving with one meal a day,

The life of schoolchildren has once again become chaotic. Most Colombo schools have been closed till July 10 after the government announced several professions which went into an essential....

In faraway Ecuador, a crisis similar to the one Sri Lanka is facing, is threatening to unseat a President. Similarities of the crises in the two countries are striking in some....

President of Rice Millers’ Association and Chairman of Araliya Group Dudley Sirisena takes questions from DailyMirror on the current status of the rice market. Rice is the staple food.....

Sometime in the year 1992, an Economics student at the University of Peradeniya confessed confusion over a comment by Dr S. B. De Silva regarding multinational corporations.

The headlines in the print and electronic media these days are depressing to say the least. They describe, in vivid detail Sri Lanka’s sad state of affairs.

Many of the projects aimed at developing the country have only become a burden to the regime. Mattala Airport, Lotus Tower, the Conference....

The last column I wrote on why the media is increasingly in the firing line of public anger elicited some interesting responses. A few wrote....

According to the biblical story, the Pharaoh of Egypt had a dream that no one could interpret for him. Joseph, then a prisoner with a history.....

Following are three paragraphs from an article written by Professor Amal Kumarage of the Department of Transport and Logistics Management, University of Moratuwa and published in the Daily FT last week. These three paragraphs thr

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation, Adam Smith once said - meaning that the modern states are innately strong enough to withstand a good deal of external and internal pressure. It takes serious and serial bungling by the policymakers to break

The 104 million Tribal population has been languishing at the bottom of India’s social, economic and political ladder since the earliest times.

Since 2020, there has been a growing trend of disillusionment among young people in our country. At the presidential election of 2019 and the general election which followed, they came out in droves.....

Government revenue plummeted since President Gotabaya Rajapaksa came to power. This was driven by tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy, in a bid to increase investment and spur economic....

I made friends with a Ukrainian called Sergei A. on the internet. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he abruptly went silent, and I wondered what happened to him. I finally managed to.....

Australian cricket authorities and players responded positively to a tour that was hanging in balance after political insecurity and the economic catastrophe that prevailed. Appreciating their gesture, spectators....

In a time of crisis of epic proportion, the end result may be something unpredicted, and it is more so in politics. What Sri Lanka goes through currently is a period of social, political and economic turbulence with uncertainty hanging on the horizon

With the appointment of United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister on May 12, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa seems to have been relieved of a heavy burden and a massive pressure which had nearly ousted him from power.

A private bus plying from Athurugiriya to Kollupitiya recently was packed mostly with office workers. A good number of passengers were standing and it went without saying that they were feeling the ‘heat’ inside the bus.