We are caught in the worst catastrophe ever, in our post independent history and it is not devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic alone as explained by rational minds. Covid-19 certainly pushed the crisis further, growing deeper by th

The petroleum industry has been one of the highlights in the recent past in the media with headings such as “CPC in a quandary after Lanka Indian Oil Company (LIOC) price increase” – (Daily News, 10th February 2022) and “Fuel price formula to

The Jayantha Premachandra Foundation is an advocacy foundation launched by Nilanka Premachandra, the daughter of the late Sri Lankan artist Jayantha Premachandra. Founded by Nilanka in memory of her father, the main focus is to he

There is a trend against the media, where Governments, who do not find a print or electronic telecast to be in agreement with their political thoughts and beliefs, have the architect/author arrested....

It has struck! The curse of ever-increasing debts and the unbearably unpleasant need to go for loans! The whole episode of debts and loans is a sorry tale to tell, depressing and oppressing....

Food, the most basic of our people’s needs for survival has now become scarce in Sri Lanka. While it is shortages of supplies including milk powder that sets some people on a scrambling....

Earlier this month, for over a week the health sector was paralysed by a strike called by the Sri Lanka Federation for Health Professionals, who commenced its strike last Monday (07) demanding....

In the article titled “1962 Coup:Takeover of Govt. Through Operation Holdfast” that was published in the “Daily Mirror”of January 29th 2022,

Two years back when Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected president, he had the best of both worlds. At home, a good part of the Sinhala Buddhist constituency was beholden to him.

It is widely accepted that in a just and fair society, the foundation is the family. It is accepted that in a family the foundation is the mother who plays a key role physically, spiritually,

The attack on journalist Chamuditha Samarawickrama’s residence and the arrest of Shehan Malaka Gamage, a social media activist who raised concerns regarding the Easter Sunday attack, within a span....

Daily Mirror yesterday reported that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had directed the police not to use the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) as a shortcut but only if there are clear links to terrorism. Foreign Minister....

The recent strike by the healthcare workers gave enough food for thought to the Government to think about the welfare of health workers. The unions backing the healthcare workers called....

For a woman, a scarf around her head is way scarier than the scarf around her neck, satirised the famous US standup comedian Hasan Minhaj in 2015 in a Jon Stewart Comedy Central show. The video.....

Most local politicians are namesake Buddhists and the story about to unfold will provide evidence of that. Plans to build sacred cities began when Ceylon was under British rule. The Pilgrimages....

It is no secret that the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government is struggling to come to terms with its worst ever economic crisis in decades. With Sri Lanka’s foreign reserves hitting rock-bottom, the government....

Right. It’s time for the Geneva Circus. It is time to turn cough and cold into full-blown Covid-19. It is time to make mountains out of a molehill. It is time for politicians and activists whose preferred outcomes....

A cursory glance at international news these days is enough to send shivers down the spine of even battle-hardened war.....

The Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) (Amendment) Bill, a bill to amend the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act, No. 48 of 1979....

The death of the 10-year-old boy in Badalgama who had to breathe his last on February 7, allegedly due to the superstitious beliefs of his parents will soon be forgotten, if it has not already been forgotten. He would sometimes be remembered only aft

Bangladesh is today hailed as a South Asian “Tiger” for its rapid economic development. But its early years as an independent country were traumatic, not just because it was a “basket case” but because it was torn by violence and instability

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN HCHR) Michelle Bachelet is due to present to the UN Human Rights Council (UN HRC) an updated report on the extent of grave human rights....

Hardly a day passes these days without news media publishing in emblazoned headlines that our government has managed to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from India or that China....

A public rally called ‘Podujana Rally’ was held on February 9 in Anuradhapura, with the participation of the President and Prime Minister; while health authorities maintained....

The death of a 10-year-old Maleesha Dulakshana sent waves of shock, anger and sympathy among most Sri Lankans but reality is such that many segments of society have largely been blinded by false....

As Sri Lanka and Japan celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations, a series of events have been organized to mark this bilateral friendship.

Back in December 2019 the world experienced its first case of COVID-19 from Wuhan city, China, rapidly spread across the globe, flattering a global pandemic in March 2020 (World Health Organization, 2020). After the public health emergency issued by

The ethnic problem or the national question as some people call it is a topic only among the Tamil leaders, after the end of the war between the armed forces and the LTTE in 2009.

The famous British artist Matt Monro sang: “Born free as free as the wind blows, as free as the grass grows, born free to follow your heart; Live free,

As the 9th Intake of officer cadets, we celebrate 41 years, since joining the Sri Lanka Air Force on February 12, 1981. When we joined, the Sri Lanka Air Force Air Chief Marshal Harry Goonetileke.....