Suppression of worker struggles in SL has evolved from Cycle chains, Batons, Bullets, Bombs; Tear gas & Water Canons.....

Sri Lanka’s decision to transform into a fully organic nation was applauded by many nations advocating for organic ...

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is now twenty years of age. The premier political configuration of the Tamil people in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka came into being on October 22, 2001, a few weeks ahead of the 2001 December Parli

Until Monday when the northern farmers joined their southern counterparts in protesting against the government’s untimely decision to ban chemical fertilizer, the northern people were more concerned about the protests by fishermen in the region aga

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa last month said in New York that Tamil Diaspora would be invited for discussions. And his Foreign Minister now says that the government has ruled out talks with banned Tamil Diaspora groups.

For over a century Sri Lanka and India has been struggling to find a permanent solution to its maritime dispute. What began as claiming....

It has always been a challenge to deal with the youth of this county. Most of them receive free school education and nurture....

Last Friday’s suicide bomb blast in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar was the second such attack on a Shiite mosque....

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted to inaugurate the Kushinagar International Airport with the landing of an aircraft from Sri Lanka with a high profile delegation on board.

Former US President George Bush’s and then British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s post 9/11 ‘War on Terror’ cannot go on, without resuscitating the dying ISIS and Al-Qaida.

The harrowing fertilizer crisis with farmers, who are a vital cog in the country’s food chain, being ploughed deeper into the mud have no relief in sight apart from worthless words being spewed out by government members.

If you browsed the internet using the search words ‘terrorism + USA’ you will find lots of information including lists of ‘foreign terrorist organizations,’ terrorist attacks in the USA and US travel advisories, among lots of other things.

The Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion, the Freedom from Torture, the Right to Equality, the Freedom from Arbitrary....

The otherness has been removed from journalism. The otherness that helped us to stick to or at least maintain a thin veneer.....

If there’s one question that we rarely give a genuine answer that would be it. ‘How are you?’ as a greeting therefore is quite stumping.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the eighth executive President, and the incumbent in the office seems to believe that the next thing Sri Lanka needs right after the pandemic is a new constitution and a new electoral system. At a ceremony to

Secretary to the Agriculture Ministry Prof. Udith Jayasinghe takes questions from Daily Mirror about the current crisis of the agriculture sector and the dispute over detection of harmful bacteria in fertilizer samples imported from a Chinese company

Economic experts believe that ad hoc and piecemeal decisions will not help the economy

The present framework restricts the sovereignty of the people merely to the day they go to the polling booth to change or retain....

Sri Lanka today, is probably facing one of the most critical phases in its post-independence period. On the one hand, the country....

Co-operatives are gaining ground in the North. The co-operative movement serving small producers grew into a rural giant...

Sri Lanka’s foreign policy has been inconsistent over the past few years under successive Governments and its dealings.....

Nearly two and a half years have elapsed since the Easter Day tragedy of 2019 with clouds of uncertainly still hovering over the nation and in particular, over the loved ones of all those who were massacred that fateful morning of brutal terror and t

In most countries including Sri Lanka, rural women are often not given their proper place or the opportunity to play a key role they are known to be capable of. Instead, prominence is given to city and urban women in a multitude of areas ranging from

The Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka, the first in the world of its kind, dedicated to research on rubber, started off from very humble beginnings in 1909 with one scientist, an analytical chemist, involved in research related to rubber.

I had the opportunity to meet the one time Mayor of Kandy G.N.S. Hameed who was the only Muslim to sit on the Mayor’s Chair in Kandy, who spent only Rs 2,000/= of Municipality funds for the Civic reception to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi when she v

When little Yohani De Silva (28) put Sri Lanka on the world map of music there were mixed reactions back in her....

The government’s inability to control rising consumer prices raises an existential question as to whether Sri Lanka is a welfare...

What would be the fate of former Deputy Minister Nirupama Rajapaksa and her husband Thirukumar Nadesan in the light....

Five months after the X-Press Pearl container vessel caught fire, Sri Lankan authorities are still taking snail-paced....