In Sri Lanka, it seems there is little you cannot say or do from behind a Saffron coloured robe. The Gnanasara appointment as Chairman....

Well,December is upon us, we’ve made it through 2021. Another year is coming to an end and you can hardly miss it. Whether.....

The pandemic has changed the way we speak and infused our vocabulary with a new set of words and phrases. Those like infodemic....

Although women have shone in every sphere of national development, entering the political arena has been riddled with obstacles for women

The majority of the finances that will be coming into the education sector is based on current and expected loans and grants from bilateral and multilateral agencies Due to bilateral and multilateral agencies providing grants for education in Sri

Despite various historical narrations about the identity of Sri Lankans, genetic studies have now succeeded in confirming similarities among various ethnic groups in the country. In a recent pioneering study conducted by the University of C

The ferry tragedy in Kinniya on November 23 and the current fertilizer crisis are two cases in point that are sufficient to explain how authorities in Sri Lanka view issues affecting the ordinary people and how they save their skin putting the blam

November 27th used to mark the culmination of the week-long remembrance of fallen cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Watching news in the company of a lady relative at her house, I had a feeling of shameful discomfort when I saw ‘Tissakutti’ denying the use of any unparliamentarily terms, and even challenging....

The film business is a very lucrative business in all the countries of the world with the exception of Sri Lanka. WHY? The film industry.....

During the past two weeks, the country has witnessed around six explosions in households caused by liquid petroleum gas (LPG) as cooking fuel. At least one person has died as a result of exploding....

With new COVID variants being detected, global travel is facing yet another setback. Nevertheless, tourism needs to thrive for island nations like ours to sustain themselves....

Last Saturday (Nov. 20) saw a group of self-styled political activists create a ruckus and disrupt a public meeting in the Scarborough area of Toronto City in Canada.

Every year I have been writing articles to mark the birth and death anniversaries of the Late Mr. Athulathmudali to bring to the attention of the public as well as those in governance the skill and competency with which this great man handled any a

The United Nations observes 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, the same date in 1947 on which the UN General Assembly adopted the resolution on the partition of Palestine.

The Kandyan Kingdom’s dogged resistance to European invaders from the 17th Century to the second decade of the 19th Century....

The US State Department engaged a leading delegation of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) along with the representatives....

The ferry tragedy in the Kuringankerni Lagoon on Tuesday underscores the fact that some journeys to school in Sri Lanka aren’t....

Although the demonstration against the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the disruption of its meeting in Canadian city of Toronto...

State Minister of Education Reforms Susil Premajayantha in an interview with the Daily Mirror responded to questions on education reforms and governance issues. In somewhat hard-hitting remarks he was critical of the way the Government is administere

After a year of unprecedented protests by thousands of farmers camping on the borders of Delhi since last November and after more than a dozen deaths from the heat, cold and COVID, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a surprising announcement said on Fri

One country, one law. Now there’s something that has to prompt wild cheers from so-called liberals (including ardent UNPers, SJBers, not-so-red JVPers, funded-voices, rent-a-protest agitators and other Colombians). They are not cheering.

The iconic Colombo Municipal Council building was illuminated in orange with messaging on the national women’s helpline and Mithuru Piyasa hotline today to place a spotlight on intimate partner violence and encourage more women to seek help.

The United States’ most respected and greatest President Abraham Lincoln - the man who freed his country from the curse of slavery.....

A glorious day passed without much funfair. Two years ago on November 16, 6.9 million Sri Lankan voters elected as their executive....

The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) issuing a gazette on September 2 announced that a maximum retail price for rice would.....

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when organisms causing infections evolve ways to survive treatments. The term antimicrobials includes antibiotic, antiprotozoal, antiviral and antifungal medicines.

There seems to be a huge issue in the process of decision-making by the government, given the reversal of previous decisions one after one. The government had issued several gazette notifications on assigning control prices for rice and sugar, and al

we have the economic stability, as well as low interest rate sans any further depreciation of the rupee, we have already seen most of the businesses, specially the big ones have picked up and if we can get the small businesses also going well, I thin

The annual budget for year 2022 presented in parliament on November 12, 2021 by Finance Minister (FM) Basil Rajapaksa was wholly condemned at its second reading by Dr, Harsha de Silva MP based on his economic learning. Young “social activists” we