Most Sri Lankans raised their nationals flags yesterday (February 4) not only because it was Independence Day, but as a measure or move to boost.....

To a world that is grappling with the coronavirus crisis, Myanmar’s February 1 military coup was hard to absorb, although it came as no shock to Myanmar watchers.

Even though President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ‘Vistas for Prosperity’ promised to increase Sri Lanka’s forest cover in the next four years, environmentalists....

One of the biggest problems faced by Sri Lankans in general is that they are forced to worry too much about how to survive the 30 days of the month. This blunts thinking and puts a stop to coming up with creative ideas to escape from the financial me

The lack of consistency in foreign policy affairs between the two main political forces have led to irritations in Sri Lanka’s relations with the rest of the world at times. In the latest example India looked embarrassed and miffed by the governmen

The US Committee on Foreign Relations presented an analysis on Sri Lanka to the Senate on December 7, 2009, i.e. almost seven months after the war on terrorism ended with the world’s most ruthless terrorist outfit, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ee

In the wake of the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka, currently recording a daily average of nearly 800 during the past few days and the COVID-related death toll rising to 330 as of Wednesday afternoon,

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in an interview with the Daily Mirror speaks about future economic plans of the government amidst the pandemic situation....

The United Nations Human Rights Council has issued harshest ever warnings to Sri Lankan leaders over the implementation of its previous resolutions.

AG’s word on Role of Judges…, and last Friday’s news item on two women aged 24 and 27 being killed by their husbands in separate incidents....

Whilst the world’s coral reef sanctuaries are facing the threat of being destroyed due to rising sea temperatures, local environmental groups.....

For more than a year, the Daily Mirror reported on the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) appointed to inquire into the 2019 Easter Sunday Attacks.

As we celebrate our Independence Day on February 4 -- though there are many questions as to how independent we are or will be after the 20th Amendment -- the United Nations also marks the International Day of Human Fraternity.

The Gotabaya Rajapaksa Government got itself in a governance and geopolitical-level quagmire following the announcement to hand over the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) of the Colombo Port to India’s Adani Group. Going against its own assura

Ms. Bachelet’s report is unusually blunt. It’s a cut and paste job of Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, etc, probably with some input from types of transnational govt. of Tamil Eelam and likeminded groups

Myanmar is seeing its fourth military coup since independence from the British in 1948. On February 1, the Myanmar military called the “Tatmadaw” was in the process of taking over the country from State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U

I have been wanting to write about Ven. Prof. Bellanvila Wimalarathana for a long time. But having worked with him closely it was difficult to bring myself to write about him as the grief was so great. I still wonder whether I have fully come to term

Education Minister Professor G.L. Peiris, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, responds to queries about plans for revival of the education sector amidst the pandemic. Also, he shares his views on some criticism of the government in the realization

Doowa fisherman K. N. Sujith Fernando’s (42) temporary built hut was demolished on January 21, by a so called fisherman organisation representative who had complained....

In 1945, the system of free education was introduced into our country. Since then. every child over the age of five, and not more than sixteen has been entitled to free education.

What happens to most working people’s income when they fall sick or become too old to work? What does an economic depression....

A year has passed by and here we are again bearing witness to the dissipating turmoil that is animal welfare in Sri Lanka. We’re aware of full-fledged pet encagements and abandoned litters of newborn strays in plastic bags. However, during the pass

January 28, 2021 was the third death anniversary of famous filmmaker Dharmasena Pathiraja. The renowned academic cum film director, referred to as “Pathi” by almost everybody he interacted with, breathed his last on the morning of January 28, 201

The Government on January 22 announced one of its countermeasures against the possible resolution that would be adopted in the UNHRC sessions in Geneva.

The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the economies in countries the world over. Sri Lanka too has been shaken as the pandemic worsens and the numbers of those contracting the disease and the death rate rising rapidly.

During the COVID-19 pandemic several Sri Lankan expatriates chose to return home and they were brought back in batches.

Here’s a story. Two men have been walking for days in search of food and water after surviving a plane crash in a desert.

Buddhist scripture condemns violence in every form. But exactly a month after Ven. Olande Jinarathana Thera’s body was found floating in the Rathgama Lagoon....

Come January and sometimes even late December, we notice an outpouring of ‘concern’ for Sri Lanka. There are countries, which were to help Sri Lanka. There is much noise and much of it comes in the form of threats, sometimes veiled and sometimes

Finally, at last, ultimately Donald J. Trump, the second one-term president in US history, left the White House and his presidency without even having the courtesy to attend the inauguration of his successor Joseph R. Biden, who was sworn-in at an im