COVID-19 pandemic has created a hellish situation for the students across the world. In a country like Sri Lanka where poverty and poor access to technology prevail among a sizeable segment of the population, attendance to schools or pursuin

In December last year, Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister and Africa’s youngest won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in courting peace with former foe, Eritrea and thus ending the Horn of Africa’s longest-running war.

The ‘laws of nature’ emerged victorious last week. This was following a landmark judgment issued regarding the mass scale deforestation activities that took place at the Northern Sanctuary of Wilpattu National Park. Therefore, Reserve

Budget 2021 does not meet the scale of the challenges Sri Lanka is going to face in the coming years. Instead of offering a realistic, concrete alternative to the current....

An article published in a popular Sinhala daily by a prominent political monk prompted me to respond. Verse 9 in the Yamakavagga of Dhammapada....

As the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (and empathy groups) organizes memorial events every November for thousands killed during the political emergency of 1987-1990....

By 19 November 2020, a total of 19,280 of our citizens had contracted the coronavirus, 74 unfortunates succumbed to the disease and 13,271....

The US has been grappling with the problem of how to advance its interests in the world, and throughout much of the 20th century the question boiled down to the debate between the realists and the idealists.

With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging and the second wave being worse than the first,the United States President Donald Trump is still refusing to concede defeat and is continuing to underplay or undermine the pandemic as he did when it first erupt

Many Muslims in Sri Lanka might have agreed at least for a moment with the Sinhalese who are against ethnicity based politics when six Muslim Parliamentarians voted in favour of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution Bill on October 22, breaking rank

There is something positively vile about a government that goes out of its way, in the midst of a global pandemic to hurt the most core sentiments of a religious community. During the pandemic Sri Lanka is the one among abysmally few countries in the

We’re in the thick of a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the call is for all citizens to act responsibly. This is a bit hard to demand....

In what could be the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been given the glad tiding that vaccines for the most dangerous....

It was obviously not a year that made for pomp and pageantry, even if that was the desire. All issues have been either framed or impacted by Covid19. In any case, he’s not, for example, a Mahinda Rajapaksa. Covid-19 of course was so sobering that t

Pope Francis, the Head of the Catholic Church, was among the several world leaders—who included Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron,

During the past 8 months, fishing has been hit appallingly by the coronavirus. During the first wave of the epidemic, the issues were low prices, low production and incomes due to curfews, lockdowns, etc.,

The month of November in 1989 was colder than in past years. It was in fact chilling from a metaphorical sense.

Plantation Industries Minister Dr. Ramesh Pathirana shared his views on the current political and economic situation in the country and on COVID-19 pandemic that has devastated the country.

Could anyone be surprised at the ANGER OF GOD? Some heartless, unscrupulous people seize any opportunity they can to STEAL from the unsuspecting.

The US elections are over, but not quite done and dusted as many would like to think. On 14 November the media announced former US Vice President....

Drones became the latest high-tech gizmo added to Sri Lanka’s fight to collar COVID-19. Last week it was announced that drones were being used to monitor....

Colombo’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Ruwan Wijemuni, after conducting a series of random PCR tests in the Colombo City, had said days ago that there may be more than 30,000 people infected with COVID-19 in the City of Colombo. Dr. Wijemuni

When Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban said in September that rooting for the re-election of Donald Trump was his ‘Plan A’, he was probably echoing the sentiments of most of the world’s populist, autocratic leaders. They hoped for four mor

The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) appears to be on the horns of a dilemma over whether it should allow Muslims to bury (as per their religious beliefs) those who had died of COVID-19, or if they should be required to submit to cremation, eve

Another elephant succumbed to injuries after being electrocuted near the Nimalawa Sanctuary recently. While most electric fences don’t necessarily have electricity, they are just a simulation to keep elephants away and protect crops. However, the p

A group of researchers, including one of the leading herpetologists in Sri Lanka, Mendis Wickramasinghe and Herpetology Researcher at Natural History Museum, London, Evolutionary Biologist Dr. David Gower, has been able to discover

Given that Sri Lanka is facing a massive economic crisis, it is extremely urgent that Budget 2021 reflects the changes that must be made to get the economy onto a sustainable track.

The COVID-19 pandemic has a devastating effect on Colombo life, with the continuing second wave and the Peliyagoda wholesale fish market......

Last Wednesday Daily Mirror reported about a Sri Lanka-born Doctor being named Queensland’s ‘Australian of the Year’.