UN Human Rights Council, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other Human Rights organizations emphasised that Sri Lanka must withdraw the PTA,

On Sunday October 3, the ‘Pandora Papers’ published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.....

Yes, it did really happen. A social media giant, whose three platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram between them....

Two Pettah businessmen and a Deputy General Manager of the SATHOSA have been arrested and four SATHOSA officials have been interdicted over the Garlic scam that has allegedly taken place at SATHOSA. The two businessmen

Sri Lanka lost approximately 460 elephants in 2019 mainly as a result of the Human-Elephant Conflict. Besides that, deliberate attempts of ivory poaching have been reported from time to time. With every passing World Animal Day, th

Last week, the Balangoda Magistrate passed a suspended prison sentence on a young couple who was found guilty of shooting a pornographic video in the idyllic settings of the Pahanthudawa waterfall. The sentencing w

The horror stories are too legion to be repeated here – so and so contracted Covid-19, recovered and returned home only to die while sitting on a chair. Veteran journalist Elmo Gunaratne and his son were gone in a day, the son suffering a heart att

Lockdowns have no doubt stemmed the spread of the COVID-19 virus. But prolonged shutdowns have been a failure, studies across the world have shown. Prolonged lockdowns have not only been difficult to enforce, but have added to the woes created by the

Although this stock has been sold for Rs.135 per kilo the open market price of garlic is more than Rs.400 a kilo. The CAA officers were able to take pictures of all the documents used in this scam. They were about to alter the log books when our offi

Children’s Day is traditionally held on October 1. It is a date set apart in honour of children. The observance of the date varies...

Week after week, shortages of imported goods and rising cost of living are crippling the day-to-day lives of ordinary people. As the economic....

The signs are there and they aren’t good. It started weeks ago. Minister Sarath Weerasekara and Secretary/Defence....

Third Prime Minister, Sir John Kotelawala, represented Ceylon at the first large-scale Afro–Asian Conference, the ‘Bandung Conference’.....

Gamini Fonseka was the uncrowned king of Sinhala cinema for nearly three decades.He was the first and arguably the sole super star of Sinhala cinema.

In this day and age when most politicians are despised as being selfish and self-centred, power-hungry and corrupt while trying to dominate or dictate to the people instead of being servant-leaders as they should be,

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa seems to have kept in mind the threat posed by the resolution on Sri Lanka passed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in March,

The Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) continues to be a sticky issue for Sri Lanka with the international community calling....

Sri Lankans would be out on the streets from early morning today (October 1) given that the lockdown is lifted by the Government....

The United Nations is often derided as a talk shop. Once a year, the Glass House by the East River offers a stage for world leaders....

The much controversial fertilizer tender, that was offered to China without analyzing samples to check its compliance with the standards published by the Sri Lanka Standard Institution, has been suspended due to the continuous failures in proving the

While on the one hand, Sri Lankans are battling the Covid-19 pandemic, on the other hand, they are compelled to grapple with the sky rocketing cost of living and the shortage of essential commodities such as milk powder,

The Political Economy of Covid-19 and Responses to it. That would be an excellent topic for doctoral dissertation. Of course, ‘Combatting Covid-19’ would also be an interesting and important study.

We have been critical in these columns, admittedly, of the role played by His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith in times....

Yesterday (September 27) brought the curtain down on the final day of world leaders addressing the august body. Addressing.....

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, the world’s most authoritative assessment on....

The landmark judgment delivered by Moneragala High Court Judge Ranga Dissanayake on September 13 over an election petition has not been sufficiently discussed within the political circles or civil society, as it deserves. At a time the country is lo

The World Food Systems Summit, which was held virtually on September 23, evoked both enthusiasm and strong disapproval. The division was between rich and poor countries, the proponents of corporate export-oriented agriculture on the one hand, and peo

Traditionally the ‘general debate’ of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is the most high-profile UN event.....

The recent fantasized prison tragedy, ‘Lady goes to Gallows’ reminds a line in the traditional Appalachian old time folk song, “The Maid Freed.....

The reform of the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA)that Muslim women have been demanding for over four decades,is back on centre stage.