With a vision to educate males and females to be commissioned officers in the armed forces the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy....

It only took 29 seconds, that right 29 seconds to unravel what has been for years the shambles that is Sri Lanka cricket.

Over the past few years, this country has been wracked by one catastrophe after another, with almost monotonous regularity.

The row between the authorities and the farmers over the ban on chemical fertilizer reminds us the Sinhala folktale “Hathara Beeri Kathawa” in which a deaf man askes another deaf man a question to which the latter gives an answer which is not

In December 2020, the Daily Mirror shed light on the Elevated Highway Project connecting the New Kelani Bridge to Athurugiriya propose

Influential presidential sibling Basil Rajapaksa is tipped to be sworn in as a National List MP next week when his two-week quarantine after returning from a holiday in the United States ends. That would be the precursor to be appointed as the M

Basil Rajapaksa returned to the island yet again, and with a baggage load of hot and juicy news. He is said to sit in Parliament from the SLPP National List on 06th July. There is said to be about four SLPP National list MPs competing to resign for B

Since the crushing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the Sri Lankan military in 2009, Many Tamils young people....

Poson is famous for “Abhayadana,” [Rescue from slaughter]. This year’s Poson became famous for an abhayadana of a different.....

Former Minister of Finance and former Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake has not been active in the political arena after losing the election....

Never have we been so unfortunate to observe and experience a chain of marine turtle deaths in our seas. At the time of this writing....

During the period March 2020 to 24 June 2021 there were reports of six cases of encounter killings, twenty-seven cases of police...

There was considerable political excitement some days ago, when a meeting was scheduled between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).

The combination of sea level rise, tides, storm surge and waves has increased the overtopping of natural and artificial coastal protection by nearly 50% in the last two decades. This revelation comes from an international study by IRD (France), IHE D

Public service is not merely for those who work for the government, but we all need to be public servants or be at the service of those in need.

The historical judgement delivered by the Appellate Court on June 16 (Wednesday), granting bail to the former Director CID, SSP Shani Abeysekara, has been hailed by Sri Lanka’s law abiding citizens.

A month after the X-press Pearl inferno, carcasses of approximately 100 sea turtles and 46 cetaceans (aquatic mammals including dolphins.....

Dads are the least celebrated and hardly receive gifts. Most often what they do is taken for granted; especially the extra hours .....

However flawed the Iranian democracy is, it has been electing through universal adult franchise presidents and legislative assembly.....

Sri Lankan Buddhists celebrate the festival of Poson today. In the Buddhist calendar it is the next most important festival after Vesak.

Dr. Diyanath Samarasinghe, speaking on ‘How the [medical] profession can help us balance work and life issues,’ at an event organised by the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA), made a very interesting observation on science and the scientific a

Ronald K. McMullen, a U.S. career diplomat- turned academic, in an interview with Daily Mirror shares his views on the policy of the Biden administration on Sri Lanka.

Colombo, June 20: The Sri Lankan government is determined to make farmers immediately switch over to organic farming citing health and environmental reasons as well as the severe foreign exchange shortage which impairs the import of chemical fertilis

Three days ago, on June 20, the world commemorated World Refugee Day. -that is people who have to leave their homes due to war....

In a country where tens of thousands of youth have been killed on the streets after being abducted and tortured, where political leaders....

The media exposed an incident involving the breaking the seal on a lorry loaded with 20 tons of salt dispatched from the Hambantota....

It was only a slight difference that we witnessed on the roads last Friday; the last working day during the just concluded travel restrictions and yesterday, the first day after those restrictions ended. As yesterday, during the “travel restriction

A 2017 census done by the Department of Census and Statistics estimates that around 8.7% of the population in Sri Lanka fall into the category of People with Disabilities (PwDs). This is around 300,000 people. But four years down the line, this numbe

Farmers across this paradise isle are raging against a man-made disaster courtesy of a presidential directive. Holding placards in their starving paddy lands and hollowed out cash crops, they protest against a crippling shortage of fertilizer, the re

Parliament was told recently that the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Australian Federal Police were working with the Sri Lankan Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in the investigations into the April 2019 Easter Sunday attack