Two ways to stop Rajapaksa

The proxies of the ex-president have fired the first salvo.Over six million Sri Lankans who voted against the kleptocratic regime of Rajapaksa and many others who later realised the full extent of excesses.....

EDITORIAL - Plug the loopholes

The budget presented by the new government last month drew a lot of praises. Media termed it a Robin Hood budget, implying that it was designed to tax the rich to feed the poor.  The government announced......

Changing Sri Lanka : Today it is the Mind and not any more the Life

The enigma today is quite complex. The war has ended, and government or the policy makers too have changed, but the task ahead could be much more complicated than winning the war and/ or defeating the Rajapaksa.....

The Need For A Government With National Unity

In the days when each electorate had its Member of Parliament, the notion was that each one of them had to think and act locally as well as nationally, not forgetful of international implications of their decisions...........

Can Obama negotiate an agreement with N.Korea

If there is such a thing as a “frozen conflict” the best place to look is not in Eastern Europe but in Korea where after years of merciless war that ended in 1953 there was an armistice, a line was drawn......

EDITORIAL - Major step towards restoring justice

The breakdown in the rule of law and the party politcisation of vital institutions including the judiciary and the police are known to have been among the main causes for the rampant corruption and abuse....

POLITICAL PROMISES: LANKA NEEDS ANNUAL STATUS REPORTS

When public disenchantment grows over unfulfilled promises, former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg...

EDITORIAL : PORT CITY DEAL IN STORMY SEAS

While the new National Unity Government has taken highly professional diplomatic steps to improve...

Terrorists dressed in white ‘NATIONALS’ are among us

Sri Lanka was considered one of the most promising new nations, with comparatively high living...

Portraits of ‘minority group’ political musketeers

It was a packed audience on Wednesday when Imthiaz  Bakeer  Markar launched his new book...

I had one choice: Implicate SF or go underground - Dhanuna

General Sarath Fonseka’s son-in-law Dhanuna Tilakaratne made newspaper...

Do not ask who the next Prime Minister is

The Dailymirror interviewed a few astrologers during the Presidential election...

Expanding the breathing-space ‘gifted’ by Al Hussein - EDITORIAL

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,...

Sl must work towards zero private ownership of elephants

In recent years Sri Lanka has developed a ...

Appachchi willnever leave the party even if expelled

My father was the former Secretary of the UNP,...

Dominique Straus Kahn consultancy considered ‘outstanding’ advisory agency-Nivard Cabraal

The Dailymirror sat with former Ce ntral Bank Governor,..

Fly High and Fall Flat

Think twice before agreeing to appear on the cover of a business magazine. 

Dramatic change in diplomacy - EDITORIAL

One of the most important achievements of the new all-party National...

I foresaw the defeat of MR

In an interview with Dailymirror , Leader of Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) Udaya Gammanpila spoke on why the upcoming election is crucial not simply for Sri Lanka but also for the UPFA....  

A new treaty of peace with India

?India is the only country in the world which has a permanent interest in Sri Lanka because of our situation and also because our relations  extend over a period of two thousand years or more. It is therefore most appropriate that our new President’s first overseas visit should be to India.

Problem with Tamil politics

?It is sad that the Tamil political leadership is not learning from their misadventures in the past.  The “genocide” resolution that was passed by the Northern Provincial Council is a calculated.....

Prison hospital not only for the affluent - EDITORIAL

N?ewly appointed Acting Prisons’ Commissioner General Rohana Pushpakumara had said the fair use of the facilities of the Prison Hospital would be available to every inmate irrespective of his or her background and will not be the privy of VIPs sentenced or remanded for various offences. 

I resigned for personal and professional reasons

Despite his recent resignation from the state ministerial portfolio, Faizer Musthapha pledge his support to Maithripala Sirisena. The parliamentarian also stated he would ......

The Difficult Transition: Why are some hostile?

Animals like to roam around freely, without being constrained by others. Similarly, small children also enjoy freedom and resist control and regimentation....

EDITORIAL - Extraordinary move for a new Sri Lanka

In a mysterious or miraculous way, Sri Lanka on January 8 — in a silent revolution by the people — was liberated from a family dictatorship and is now soaring in the orbit of an all-party National.....

21st century silk route in skies No Stop in Serendib

Interim relief and provisional course corrections were the objectives....

This is no time to ship lethal arms to Ukraine

Please put your hand up if you support giving lethal arms to the Ukrainian army and also supported...

Resolutions that forbid resolution - EDITORIAL

The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) passed a strongly worded resolution accusing...

MAXIMUM CONTROL OF INFORMATION MADE LEADERS POWERFUL

A prominent lawyer in Pakistan and a member of the International Media Support (IMS), Muhammad Aftab Alam...

Ukraine: Giving peace another chance

After marathon four-nation talks in Belarus’ capital Minsk, the Ukrainian government and rebel forces...