The issues such as the human rights situation in Sri Lanka might take a backseat this time at the ongoing 49th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) as the situation....

The main news items in yesterday’s Daily Mirror warned readers of 10-hour power cuts this month.

War is about or can be about a lot of things. A common enough reason for war that cuts across territory and time is profit.

The following is an article compiled by a group of professionals headed by Prof. Rohan Samarajiva aimed at finding solutions to the island’s economic issues, how to improve on the existing debt management and deal with the dollar crisis.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin, tore apart the de-facto - post World War II convention and invaded a sovereign democracy....

The war in Ukraine today enters its fifth day. The civilian death toll according to Ukraine’s Health Ministry on February 28, stood....

The 71st anniversary of the Sri Lanka Air Force falls today, with a series of activities underway to commemorate the event. In an interview....

Russia finally did the unthinkable by invading Ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin is making a big mistake, but no one....

As Russian troops continue to battle their way towards Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, naval tensions continue to escalate.....

The 49th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commenced its sessions yesterday in Geneva and it will continue till April 1. If some of the Sri Lankan political and military leaders are not facing any threa

Much talk these days with respect to Ailing State Owned Enterprises SOEs. A new terminology has also been created as State Owned Business Enterprises SOBEs and Strategic State Owned Business Enterprises SSOBEs. The state has a long

Two hundred years have passed since the Uva - Wellassa uprising to free the country from the British colonials. The British left the country, but to this day the struggle to save the land from foreigners remains the same, locals of Uva-Wellassa say.

Northern Province Governor Jeevan Thiagarajah, who has inherited the task of resolving the issues faced by the people in the Province, is making an effort to see that State services in the Province function smoothly....

Scientifically some substances are named as ‘minerals’, if it satisfies certain requirements: 1. Naturally Occurring, 2. Inorganic (chemically)....

“See no evil-- hear no evil-- Speak no evil”: UN, the US, and the West [UK/EU] the champions of human rights, who make a huge noise at ‘the drop of a hat’ in a small country, are Blind, Deaf and....

After months of growing tension between NATO countries and Russia over a build up of Russian troops on the borders of Ukraine, war has finally broken out. The war....

I begin this column this week with an apology to readers. I had written a two part article titled “Sinhala Buddhist Strategist N. Q. Dias was feared as the “Tsar” in the “Daily Mirror” last week (Feb 19). Unfortunately I am unable to write

On 24 February Russian backed long term strongman Peter Yanukovych was ousted as Ukrainian president through a political upheaval backed by the West called the Maidan revolution in 2014.

Since 1952 Sri Lanka has suffered a devastating blood bath largely due to racial issues. The ruling United National Party’s(UNP) then frontliner S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike quit the Government and formed a new party and claimed that the main principle of

Sri Lanka is bracing for a food and drug shortage in the future. This is what the opposition harps on these days apart from maintaining that they are ready for any election. The Government....

The war Europe feared has begun. Yet Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is no Adolf Hitler or a mad man to trigger the Third World War or the biggest military conflict in Europe since....

Ven. Palatuwe Jinaratana Thera was awarded the honorary title of ‘Saddarmacharya Pravachana Keerthi Sri Chandaratne’ and bestowed with the responsibility of the position ‘Sub Sangha Nayake.....

Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 21 recognized two breakaway regions in Eastern Ukraine, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic.....

“The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” -Milan Kundera The theme that underpins today’s editorial is based on the struggles of a people and the blatant violation of their human rights.

Along with the economic crisis which shows no sign of early recovery, political confusion reigns in the government making it impossible for it to get its act together.

Here, the poet subtly describes the beauty of the Diyavanna Lake that enriches the Diyavanna Oya wetland ecosystem-which is one of many wetlands in Colombo today.

It’s out in the open, government has literally admitted, it faces a major foreign exchange crisis. Government is today running.....

I remember the first time I conducted a workshop for journalists in Sri Lanka. This was some time in mid 2004, I was with the late....

In the troubled and mismanaged economies, as the squeeze gets tightened, it is rather predictable, that unscrupulous political....

Politics seems to become gradually violent again. A seminar held by the National People’s Power (NPP), the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led coalition in Kalagedihena was attacked by a group of thugs with stones and eggs on January 30. Sri Lan