A little over a month ago —4 October 2020— a new outbreak of the Coronavirus was detected at a Brandix factory in Minuwangoda.

A lot has been written on the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these portray the dangers of acquiring the infection.

An overwhelming feeling of relief has descended upon the world-not merely the US- after the Presidential elections of the United States of America ended.

According to media reports, as at 10 November 2020, 109 prisoners and two officers have tested positive for COVID-19 at Welikada, Bogambara and Matara prisons.

The white House has virtually been turned into a white-washed sepulchre with the defeated President Donald Trump refusing to concede defeat as traditionally done in the United States which is considered by the free world as a model democracy with che

The daily case reports from the Epidemiology Unit are the only data we have to assess the spread of the virus. A better measure would be a regularly updated...

As a means of contact tracing to curb the COVID-19 spread, the government recently launched its ‘Stay Safe Sri Lanka’ project, effective from this week....

The COVID-19 pandemic serves us with a wake-up call. How? It teaches us that we have to save up for harder times.

What has happened to the Republican Party? Picking Donald Trump in 2016 as the Republican candidate, giving him victory in primary after primary.....

The issue of burial of bodies of people who had died of COVID-19 has again surfaced with unconfirmed reports to say that the Cabinet has approved the burial....

Draconian. Dictatorial. Authoritarian. Hitler-like. These are the words that were used when Gotabaya Rajapaksa first announced the decision to contest, throughout the election campaign and even now, as he approaches one year in office.

It is no secret that this incarnation of the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading even more rapidly across the country and according to the research carried out by scientists at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, this strain is more virulent than the o

The 20th Amendment that was incorporated into the constitution is now operational. The Parliamentary Council which replaced the previous Constitutional Council is now in place. Now, the experts’ committee appointed to work out a totally new constit

There are many people who praise President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s efforts taken to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. There are also those who dislike his approach to settling some of the country’s issues; a good example is backing of the 20th Amendment.

Ever since news broke in October of the first community case in two months and more COVID-19 clusters began emerging throughout the country, it has become common to see supermarkets, restaurants and even buses record people’s personal details. Whil

Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage who was in Nuwara Eliya on Sunday to get first-hand knowledge on the plight of vegetable farmers during COVID-19....

Court cases are not something new to Donald Trump. From the inheritance case that he fought for his father’s property, to countless business.....

With the emergence of the second cluster of the second wave of COVID-19 from Peliyagoda, the pandemic spread across the island causing the economy to go backwards.

Amila Ishan Kankanamge, the Government appointed non-Executive Director to Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd and Independent Television Network Boards, is now exposed to be a scammer. The educational qualifications he has mentioned in h

While the country focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic, reports of large-scale deforestation are emerging from Pottuvil in the Ampara district. Deforestation has been continuing in the area since 2000 and the Department of Forest Conserv

It’s champagne time in the United States. Some 231 years after the founding of the US, the world’s most powerful country has c

Going by the policy pronouncements made by the US President-elect Joe Biden during the poll campaign, it seems that Sri Lanka can hope for better understanding from, and fruitful bilateral cooperation with, the Biden Administration when i

Joe Biden will assume office as the 46th President of USA on January 20, 2021. He defeated the incumbent Donald Trump in a bitterly fought contest. Biden polled 75.2m (50.7%) votes and has secured 290 of the 538 electoral c

In the early hours of Sunday (November 8) morning, CNN announced the projected victory of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States.

Pandemic deaths averaged 1200 with over 120,000 new cases added each day, while election hanged on swing states for four days.

On November 2, a little after daybreak, photos of a pod of short-finned pilot whales stranded along the Panadura coastal stretch started flooding social media newsfeeds.

As the Western Province, the economic hub of the country is opened after nearly two weeks of lockdown and people are eager to get back to their normal.....

More than eleven years have passed since the war between the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organisation concluded.

In the first seven months between March 11 and October 4 Sri Lanka saw only around 3500 coronavirus infected people out of whom 13 died. But, for the past one month since October 4 the number of infected persons has surged by over 9,000, bringing the

America’s coloured people like the famous “Old black Joe” who picked cotton for centuries, yesterday were given the blessing and Beatitude virtues of picking the most powerful man in the United states if not the world.