When a child is physically harmed or sexually abused, the ideal response is for Doctors to treat injuries, therapists to counsel the child, law enforcement officers to arrest the offender, and Attorneys to prosecute the offender.

In July this year, the US, like many imperialist states before them, pulled their troops out of Afghanistan. The Americans....

About ten days back, I started receiving a flurry of messages from colleagues in Sri Lanka. I am generally not in many of the messaging groups....

Rajendram Rajamahendran the Chairman of the Capital Maharaja Group passed away on July 25 after a brief illness. ‘Killi’ as he....

Child rights activists have started questioning the government’s definition of national security as it is quite evident that a defenseless child....

Founded in 1929, making it the oldest and also the largest Rotary Club in Sri Lanka, the Rotary Club of Colombo held a virtual installation to induct its 93rd club president, Rtn. Aroshi Nanayakkara.

Sadly the cohort of perpetrators include egotistical leaders, coaches and even some members of the governing body of the school

The death of the teenage housemaid who had been employed by the family of former minister Rishad Bathiuden on July 15 has been politicized in both mainstream and social media and communalized for some extent in social media.

The debate that is being hyped and ballooned at present among Colombo “Yahapalana groups” is on “militarisation of higher education” with “Sir John Kotalawela National Defence University” (KNDU) Draft Bill in parliament. While the common

With more than three decades of experience in Parliament former Media and Housing Minister Imthiaz Bakeer Markar returned to Parliament from the main Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB). The son of former Speaker Moh

Police brutality sometimes euphemistically referred to as ‘excesses’ committed by individual or rogue bands of law enforcement officials....

The Delta variant is on the verge of going out of control. The 24 letters in the first alphabetic script in history, the Greek alphabet....

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Eran Wickramaratne, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, responds to questions both on the economic condition of the country and new political developments in the opposition. Excerpts:

July 24, 1983 was the day on which a destructive spree of anti-Tamil violence commenced in Jaffna in the early hours of the morning and began spreading to Colombo in the later hours of the evening on the same day.

Against the backdrop of the arrest of trade union and political activists who demonstrated against the proposed General Sir John Kotelawala National Defence University Bill, the main Opposition, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) launched a picketing campa

Political and other leaders need to remember what they do or fail to do will have a positive or negative effective on the younger generation and generations to come.

A man tells his wife that he thinks their electronic items are spying on them. “Nonsense,” said the wife. The man laughed. His wife laughed. Siri laughed. Alexa laughed.

Upcoming singers singing the songs of veteran artistes at reality shows has produced mixed....

The Europeans began actively colonising Latin America ever since Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba in 1492. The Spanish were the first to colonise Cuba, by bringing in Africans to work in the sugar and tobacco plantations.

“The boss has said it loud and clear that he will contest a second time! Now the other side (opposition) would have to nominate Basil. If not, even someone from the tuk-tuk party could also do the job!”

We have often heard of trafficking in narcotic drugs, weapons and other forms of smuggling. Though less known human trafficking is a graver crime because it often involves innocent, helpless people and even children.

Sri Lanka, or Ceylon back then, first took part in Olympic Games in the 1948 London Olympics, where Duncan White won a Silver medal....

Tharindu Jayawardhana is the latest victim of threats, intimidation and hatred directed towards journalists and all those who express...

Tharindu Jayawardhana is one of Sri Lanka’s most outstanding and promising young journalists. His writings and MediaLK, the news....

The political storm created by the arrest of teacher trade union activists and political activists on July 8 is still continuing. Demonstrations are being held even after the release of General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU), Joseph Sta

Live-in relationship is legal, but sections of the judiciary and society are still not reconciled to it

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP S.B. Dissanayake expressed concerns about not getting a Ministerial post in the current....

On July 11 thousands of people took to the streets in cities throughout Cuba. They were demonstrating against food shortages...

The crisis is devastating. Sri Lanka is in danger of defaulting on its international loans for the first time since....