Date: Sep 6, 1946: Time: 5.00 pm: Place: ‘Palm Court’, Albert Crescent, Colombo 7. Col. John Kotalawala, welcomed those present

Sri Lanka’s Jacqueline Fernandez who has made a name for herself in India as a successful film actress was very much in the news last week for reasons unconnected to her cinematic career.

The People’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but the people’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary says Reinhold Niebuhr an American Reformed theologian,

A state of emergency is an anathema for many people in any country and a declaration of Emergency Regulations would make headlines and in most cases create a fuss among the people. Ironically, the Emergency Regulations issued by President Gotabaya Ra

Teacher-principal unions are roaring like lions. Probably they don’t hear the silent cry of students who are stuck at home. As much....

Plunged in extreme poverty with the United Nations warning that two thirds of Afghanistan’s people are facing starvation due....

Is Sri Lanka making any headway in its fight against the COVID pandemic? From what we can gather from media reports, it is only too apparent that the fight has lost it momentum or the thrust we experienced at the initial stages.

What should a citizen do in a situation that is certainly worrisome and is probably reason for alarm? What should you do what should I do? These are questions to which there are many possible answers.

Intentionally or unintentionally losing vital data relating to the registration of drugs during a pandemic cannot be passed as a minor mistake.

In a recent live discussion on fighting the Covid-19 pandemic hosted by Daily Mirror Twitter Spaces, Colombo Municipal Council’s...

Going through the newspapers, or its newest face – the e-Paper - a super-rich citizen could be forgiven if he/she is forced into...

Mangala Samaraweera was never at home in Sri Lankan politics. He was the embodiment of a political misfit. Although somemay....

Around 350 - 400 families live in Paranigama W.27/A Grama Niladhari Division in Ampara district. More than 350 acres of cultivation lands....

If not for the severity of the COVID 19 pandemic which has been threatening Sri Lankans as well as people in other countries with death, there could have sometimes been country wide demonstrations in Sri Lanka against the spiraling cost of livi

The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.K. Stalin, recently won plaudits both at home and abroad for announcing a very comprehensive welfare package totaling INR 317 crore (US$ 43.1 million) for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in the State.

Questions continue to be raised with regards to the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks. Allegations of criminal negligence have been made against officials and members of the former Government. Former

US Ambassador Alaina B.Teplitz, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, talks about the development of business environment....

The Covid-19 is rampaging through the country with 4,596 new cases and 212 deaths reported up until last night....

Date—July 29, 1983 [Black July’s “koti awa” day]; Place—Fort: exactly opposite Regal cinema. Murderous hooligans roused....

The opposition that has been rightly blaming the government’s failure to restrict the people’s movement during the last Sinhala and Hindu New Year Period which resulted in the third wave of the COVID 19 in the country,

Frustration growing in adults in Sri Lanka and around the world is making the controlling of the COVID pandemic tougher each day.

The loss of Mangala Samaraweera is a devastating blow to statesmanship in Sri Lanka. In the words of theologian James Freeman Clarke...

When one hears a single bell toll, the message become clear. Someone within your community has passed. In the last few weeks.....

Three days ago, on August 24, Mangala Samaraweera Cabinet Minister of yester-year and a man of many parts and talents breathed...

Behind the frantic efforts by the United States to evacuate tens of thousands of foreign troops and Afghans before the Taliban’s no-nonsense....

Let me share some of my thought with my own experiences and unfolding events in Kabul. Afghanistan has been in deep political divisions, structural governance challenges, and economic insecurity to impede durable peace and development progress for ye

The First Anglo-Afghan War, William Dalrymple observed just a week ago (‘Britain’s fourth Afghan war is a replay of the first infamous retreat 170 years ago), was arguably the greatest military humiliation ever suffered by the West in the East.

In moves reminiscent of April 29, 1975, which marked the end of the Vietnam War and that of US troops hurriedly vacating the country becoming an enduring symbol of defeat with thousands of Americans and their Vietnamese allies airlifted out of the ci

Following the ‘manmade’ gas shortage in the country there is public opinion to say that this was allegedly manipulated by the Ministry of Trade....

The message has been repeating on a loop. It took 20 years, four US Presidents, some three trillion dollars and 100,000 lives....