Anti-incumbency underlies Indian election results

Headlines in the media the world over will trumpet the victory of the Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP)-led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Corruption and bribery still rampant, 20 cases to be heard daily - EDITORIAL

Despite pledges being implemented, some dimensions of maintaining law and order and the rule of law, corruption and bribery are still...

Sri Lanka’s dubious honour at Washington corrupt quartet

Early this month, Sri Lanka along with three other nations, had the dubious honour of dominating the agenda of the first...

Duties of Elections Commission: A proactive or bureaucratic stand?

We have a new Elections Commission appointed in November 2015. It will go on until November 2020. It is the commission’s immense...

Accountability of implementing restrictions on use of polythene

The baseless, opposing attitude to any decision taken in favour of national interests has become a common feature among the....

Pocket dynamo in the field of rugby – Japana

On October 15, 2017 Brig. Japana (Jaupana) Jayawardena was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Sri Lanka Rugby.....

SLFP doesn’t have a strategy to meet new developments

The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) held its 21st National Congress recently. The Daily Mirror discussed the political, economic and...

Can we invite London Mayor to Sri Lanka? - EDITORIAL

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan during a recent visit to India called on the British Government to apologize for the massacre in Amritsar by the....

HOW ‘CRISIS TOURISM’ AFFECTS SRI LANKA

It has been reported in the print media, that tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka would face a downward trend in the near future. The findings have been...

Iran 2018: Coming infinity war

Last month Prime Ministers of Iran and Iraq announced with great pride the defeat of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. In a span of three years....

Labour Unrest

How do we respond to the recent railway union strike? Was it about higher salaries and administrative grades of railway workers? Or, was it a disruption....

Safe Migration in a World on the Move - EDITORIAL

Next Monday December 18 is international Migrants Day with the theme this year being Safe Migration in a World on the Move and....

Beloved Jerusalem Hijacked

Poets as diverse as William Blake and Yehuda Amichai have sung the praises of the heavenly Jerusalem, a land without strife or....

Split in dravidian movement And the decline of Tamil separatism

India gained freedom from Britain at midnight on August 15th 1947. At the time of Indian independence there was a separatist movement in South India...

Jerusalem: Let’s rebuild it on the principles of justice

Warning: This article may contain ideas that religiously sensitive readers may find disturbing, despite efforts to keep the article balanced.

Whoever wins, let the polls be free and fair

Nominations were closed at noon yesterday for the long delayed elections to 92 local councils. For the 248 other councils, nominations will be received from December 18 to 21.

‘JVP agreeable to Provincial Councils system with modifications’

JVP MP Vijitha Herath in an interview with Daily Mirror spoke about the current political situation in the country and his party’s novel way of approaching issues at hand. Following are excerpts of the interview done with Herath. 

LG Elections For better local planning NOT for power play

Nominations for Local Government (LG) elections have been set for Monday, December 18 to Thursday, December 21. Before delimitations and carving out of new Wards and LG bodies, 335 LG bodies had 4,116 Councillors elected.

Will Wimal survive this time?

Even being a strong loyalist of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa has unusually taken a backseat at a time when his boss and mentor is going to face an election, the results of which might turn out to be a trendsetter.

60th Anniversary of Sri Bodhiraja Dhamma School

During colonial rule in Ceylon, Buddhists and the Sasana suffered due to heightened activity by Missionaries. It’s in this backdrop that an attempt was made by foreign and local Buddhist intellectuals to embark on a campaign to establish Dhamma Schools for 

Sole eyewitness recounts 1974 aircraft crash

R. M. Ranaweera who saw with his naked eyes the crash of the Indonesian owned Maritinnair aircraft on 4th December 1974 over the Seven Virgins Mountain range 

Will elephant obscure betel leaf; making ‘Pohottuwa’ Govt’s dominant rival?

It is timely to consider Elections, politics and Legislators in pre-independence Ceylon as elections of one sort or another appear to have become a way of life in this country. Sri Lankan people hate postponement of elections—history records that every time an 

Pollution is the greatest enemy of GREEN ECONOMY

Green Economy is a subject being talked about all over the globe. What is Green Economy has to be understood before debating about it. Most educated are aware of it and those not educated about Green Economy have to be educated. Getting on to 

(Pick)pocketing the Town Hall

Local government elections are typically held immediately after a major election. What typically happens is that the party winning the latter sweeps the former. In this sense the 

Only a tantrum away from a nuclear catastrophe

With the dangerously unpredictable United States President Donald Trump plunging the world closer to nuclear war in the Korean Peninsula and in the volatile Middle East, last Sunday’s warning by the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner needs to be seriously reflected 

Constituents should prevail upon their MPs

Dr. Anula Wijesundere, a consultant physician involved with the work of the Nationalist Movement in Sri Lanka, speaks about the constitution making process, women’s rights and the impact of the price reduction of beer as proposed in the Budget. She is the 

Shedding the war mentality: Are we capable of it?

The war mentality represents an unfortunate confluence of ignorance, fear, prejudice, and profit. - Gabor Mate`

Don’t import teachers; Recruit Tamil-speaking unemployed graduates

During the height of the war, the Tamil medium schools in the Central Province were filled with teachers from Jaffna or rather the Northern Province.   The Northern Tamil teachers dropped their pride, set aside the Sri Lankan Tamil-Indian Tamil divisions and 

REVISITING CALHOUN: DEATH BY CONGESTION

Congestion is something we take for granted these days. So much so that we cannot now imagine a world without it. Even a casual glance will show us that we live overcrowded lives. Drowning in a thick soup of human beings, vehicles, buildings, 

If the Rajapaksas were in power the people would be eating grass

Minister of Sustainable Development and Wildlife and Minister of Buddhasasana Gamini Jayawickrama Perera in an interview with Lankadeepa aired his views on the present