President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on November 6 has changed the composition of membership and the Terms of Reference of the Presidential Task Force he had appointed to implement the highly controversial “One Country, One Law” concept.

Cooperation, not Cold War, is what the world urgently needs to overcome multiple crises of gargantuan proportions, with the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the global economic downturn being the most pressing issues.

November 11 (Thursday) marked ‘Remembrance Day’. For some time we’ve not seen the poppy flower being sold at street corners and at junctions where there are traffic lights. The reason for this is the Covid pandemic.

The Climate Change Conference being held in Glasgow in Scotland will end tomorrow with world leaders committing themselves....

In the last match that Sri Lanka played in the ongoing T-20 World cup, against the West Indies, Roston Chase was caught....

The appointment of the Task Force on ‘One Country, One Law’ has thrown the spotlight on the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) once again. There has been....

Numerous videos uploaded on social media have documented police officers, not excepting senior officers using excessive force....

Whatever else might be said against the government, a positive aspect amidst gathering storm clouds is that COVID-19 numbers....

It is no secret that the government is desperate in facing the economic issues the country is faced with. Also it is no secret that government has no solutions to any of the current economic woes the people are faced with, as the steps taken by it ar

Sri Lanka today is a land of acute shortages. Hundreds, if not thousands throng at the sales agents at the rumours of the impending, and often elusive, arrival of supplies of cooking gas. Long queues of people wait in desperation only to find, supp

In order to make the public aware of the forthcoming budget the Progressive Women’s Collective (PWC) recently launched a budget forecast campaign titled ‘Who is the budget for?

We briefed them that the issues highlighted by those threatening to strike were not as serious as they were portrayed

The Department of Defence (DoD) annual report to Congress on military and security developments involving the People’s....

“Half a league, half a league, All in the valley of Death; Rode the six hundred. ‘Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge....

During the past few months we have been constantly reminded that the COP26 summit presently being held in Glasgow....

When the histories of certain communities are silenced and their identities suppressed that is often a sign of devastating...

Is the row between the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and the small parties in the ruling coalition real, or is it a drama? Many social media posts have posed this question. Some are of the opinion that this is a drama stage-managed by the ruling party

Sri Lanka is embroiled in crisis after crisis, crisis within crisis and conflict after conflict. The latest is the appointment of the Presidential Task Force to look into how we could have “One Country, One Law”.

On January 8, 2015 we had so much hope for good governance, decency, law and order. There is no point in going over the Bond Scam and other scams, again and again. It is like scratching an itching wound and renewing it. All of them have betrayed us a

A group of leading academics, professionals, human rights activists have issued a joint statement urging the government to ensure that a strong degree of accountability and transparency is maintained in the ongoing constitutional reform process. Foll

Sri Lankans must learn what discipline is before they learn the intricacies of how Covid-19 spreads and forms new clusters. Right...

About four weeks before world leaders gathered in Glasgow for a do-or-die climate summit, a little known incident had almost....

The Government is under fire these days from an ‘opposition’ that has arisen from within the Cabinet. This is a good sign for the people and a bad one for those who wield real power within this government.

Farmers’ agitation has become an issue that weighs heavily with the government. Rice, fruit and vegetable growers took to the streets urging the government to provide them with fertilizer for cultivation.

The highly anticipated United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP26 meaning Conference of the Parties has begun in the Scottish City of Glasgow attended by delegates from some 200 countries to announce how they will help the planet by cutting em

Here is a sequence of events that makes for interesting commentary: a) Rev. Father Cyril Gamini makes a public statement regarding the Easter Sunday Attacks where he points an accusing finger at the Director,

November 2 is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists...

Power blinds and power intoxicates. Too much power in the hands of a single individual, especially in the hands of individual....

This week, the 12th edition of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC21) takes place virtually. Over 1000....

The debate between the leaders of the government and farmers over the prevailing fertilizer shortage reminds us the Sinhala folk tale called Hathara Beeri Kathawa or the story of four deaf men. One man puts a question to another wh