Since the appointment of Ranil Wickremasinghe as Prime Minister some of the steam driving the main protest movements.....

We all know that the Sri Lankan public service is corrupt. How corrupt it is may never surprise us. That is how corrupt it is. Nothing.....

Monday’s briefing by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was a rude awakening for many across the country. Although several parliamentarians, economists and industry stakeholders....

The economic crisis, the outcome of months of mismanagement by the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government. Despite experts and people sounding the alarms over increasing prices and lack of foreign....

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Patali Champika Ranawaka in an interview with the Daily Mirror speaks about the new Government and the challenges....

Marimuththu Nirmala from Keththarama is widowed with two children. She looks after two patients and earns Rs. 350 a month. Apart from that she receives a charity allowance, but her monthly income is less than Rs. 5000. For people li

Last week, Sri Lanka’s struggle for an accountable government looked as if it had prevailed against all odds. Then someone else sold it out.

Sri Lanka is suffering from highly unstable socioeconomic, political, and cultural backwardness due to mismanagement of these sectors by the politicia

A peaceful democratic ‘revolution’ is sweeping across Sri Lanka. It is a revolution from below, from the people. It has activated large segments of Sri Lankan people to shed the habits of passive.....

On April 4, we published on these columns an article entitled: “…. entire Opposition — unite under RANIL!’ The concluding paragraph stated, “Shortages have triggered the largest demonstrations.....

Following a month of peaceful protests, on Monday (May 9), attacks by a group of pro-government supporters of premier Mahinda Rajapaksa, (egged on by a few lawless ministers.....

I first met Linus Jayatilake about a decade ago as some of us began engaging trade unions. While I had heard about Linus from my father, meeting Linus at the Commercial and.....

Lee Kuan Yew’s views about Sri Lanka have been published in three books, the first is ‘From Third World to First’, the second is ‘Lee Kuan Yew -The man and his ideas’ and the third is ‘Giants of Asia - Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew’.

United National Party leader(UNP) Ranil Wickremesinghe—is the youngest member elected to Parliament in 1977 and has been a member of Parliament for 45 years—was on Thursday recalled to play a historic role at a time when Sri Lanka is facing its w

Buddhism is a moral and philosophical system, which expounds a unique path of enlightenment, and it is mainly aimed at liberating human beings from suffering.

The sublime Teachings of Gautama Buddha which had stirred the interest of intellectuals and philosophers the world over, drove British author and historian H.G. Wells to delve deep into the life and times of the Buddha in his “A Short History of th

Prior to the attack on the protestors in Galle Face by the supporters of the then Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday, nobody was able to get an idea on the length and width of the countrywide....

Yesterday, 12th May, the Permanent People’s Tribunal in The Hague (Netherlands) commenced hearings into the murder of Sri Lankan journalist and editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, based on an indictment....

We have seen leaders come and go; like Mahinda Rajapaksa. In the political front leaders are made or put forward to suit the occasion. When the war was on Mahinda emerged as a hero....

Sri Lanka’s silent revolution was dazzling with hope, bringing in its wake the early blooms of a socio-political spring that the country has not seen before. The silent.....

Another important legislation is the Declaration of Assets and Liabilities Law, No. 1 of 1975, as amended. In terms of this law,

Following Monday’s spate of violent uprisings in several parts of the country the government imposed a curfew amidst an already declared state of emergency.

It was expected and yet it shocked many people. Expected, because that’s what history has taught us.

Sri Lanka’s 76-year-old Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has after much dilly dallying, finally resigned on Monday in the wake of countrywide protests and a worsening political and economic crisis resulting from mismanagement and incompetence.

The “#gotagohome” campaign that started a few weeks back demanding the President to step down from office, was escalated....

A half burned down tent standing on plastic pillars, heaps of rubble from the aftermath on May 9 piled in various corners were signs....

On Wednesday following unprovoked attacks by hooligans supporting ex-premier Mahinda Rajapaksa on peaceful protesters opposite....

The Rajapaksas know just one way. Deception, intimidation, murder, violence, bribery, thuggery, racism etc. etc. are the cornerstones....

The government or the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) cannot absolve themselves from the responsibility for the riots that erupted in front of Temple Trees and the Gall Face Green yesterday, where peaceful anti-government pro

By the time of this writing, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has reportedly submitted his resignation. Assuming he does not recant his decision for yet another time, he might be leaving the office, but only after coming almost close t