When I was a child, my parents saved a portion of their hard-earned earnings every month. They were careful about their finances, and eventually, in the year 1978, my mother was able to buy some....

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is entering its 19th day. There are no signs of an imminent ceasefire, despite Western sanctions targeting the Russian economy. Since Russian....

Sri Lanka is gradually losing its ability to serve tourists as a hospitable nation. A new gazette now restricts the import of several items considered non-essential but these include cheese, pasta.....

During the past decades, world superpowers have waged wars claiming that they were doing it to curb or defeat terrorism. Especially by the brutal killers of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). But the superpowers had a bigger profit-making ambiti

The former Russian president and long term Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev recently took to social media and directed a veiled threat at European powers supporting Ukraine.

The sacking of National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa and Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila from the Cabinet on March 3 was not surprising, given the political culture in the country.

Invading Ukraine over 14 days ago, Vladimir Putin the modern-day Tsar was out for a quick take-over either by eliminating Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky or by occupying Kiev expecting Ukraine forces to surrender.

He claims to have worked at the National Theatre in Maharagama since he was a child. If one tells him a name of a Sinhala movie he would give the date it was released. He would also name.....

In the immediate post-World War II period, George Kennan was the US State Department diplomat in charge of training the foreign service staff. Although he was regarded as dovish, he would....

Young Tamil poet and teacher Ahnaf Jazeem was controversially arrested on May 16, 2020 under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) on the allegations of sowing Islamic extremism through his anthology.....

Listening to the JVP/NPP speakers advocating their policies and promises I noticed many similarities between them and Nagananda Kodituwakku (NK).

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and the more terrible becomes the price that must be paid

At a time the Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers’ Union (CEBEU) is accused of discouraging renewable energy- which action has paved way a power crisis in the country-it has now come to light how they have taken a high handed decision against the CE

Our country is in the midst of one of the worst crises to hit since independence in 1948. Tourism and remittances of expatriate workers.....

Every conflict throws up lasting images. Like the Tankman of Tiananmen Square. We still don’t know who the lanky man was......

Farmers had high hopes to cultivate during the Yala season, but their hopes have begun to shatter. Presently farmers....

The failure to deliver on promises, defections and shortsighted decisions have led the country towards the edge of a precipice. Fuel shortages, soaring cost of living, irregular power outages and the fertiliser crisis have severely inconvenie

Trade unions in the health sector have put off their strike last week which they had been continuing for several weeks. They have been making several demands including one to rectify the anomalies in their salary scales. They might have been encourag

The country descended into darkness as thermal plants ran dry. Sri Lanka’s monthly oil bill is around US$ 400 and would go higher as crude oil hit US$ 110 a barrel due to Russia’s war in Ukraine

The US and its Western allies have sanctioned top Russian businessmen dubbed ‘oligarchs’ as part of their campaign against Russian President Vladimir Putin. On March 3, the White House, in coordination with Allies and partners, tar

Women have already surpassed men in terms of high school and college graduation rates, globally, as well as in Sri Lanka. Women have outshone men in the fields of Finance, legal, Medicine and even encroached the Engineering field in recent years

Former Power and Energy Minister and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentarian Patali Champika Ranawaka has admitted that some key changes are required in the SJB in order for it to pose a strong challenge to the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna

‘Equality before law means, that among equals the law should be equal and should be equally administered, that like should be treated alike. Sadly this description is not always followed in international.....

I often reflect on the tumultuous years of the late 1970s and the paths not taken that may have determined a different future for our country. Emergency rule and then the enactment.....

The Samagi Vanitha Balawegaya (SVB), the women’s wing of Samagi Jana Balawegaya has spearheaded several initiatives to address issues faced by women and children at grassroots.....

This weekly column returns with the second part of the article titled “Sinhala Buddhist Strategist N. Q. Dias was Feared as the “Tsar” that was published in the “Daily Mirror” of February 19, 2022.

When the debt keeps piling up, it can seem like you’re sinking into quicksand and often when you struggle to stay afloat and escape your situation, it can lead to poor decisions, and even more problems.

Human beings are expected to be good stewards of nature. Instead what have we done especially during the past few decades? Eco-friendly social analysts will tell us of the vital importance of forests, the animals, thousands of species of plants many

Ukraine is in shambles and it reminds us of the last stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka back in 2009. Russia is such a power that it has bulldozed its way into Ukraine claiming that it has to protect the Russian....

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has apparently ignored one of the key principles in international relations and is now paying a costly price for it, with Russian troops moving towards....