We are capable of solving our issues internally

Deputy Minister of Investment Promotion Faiszer Mustapha in an interview with  spoke on the recent incidents relating to Muslim community and of the need to increase standards of Colombo. . .

An End to Landmine Use by 2025

The world is getting ready to end the menace of the victim-activated weapons known as Anti-Personnel (AP) mines from the earth on or before 2025. This was officially revealed at the recently concluded 3rd Review...............

EDITORIAL - Bane of shortsighted infrastructure development

Parliament was informed last week that the Mattala Mahinda Rajapaksa International Airport has generated only Rs.16,185 as revenue in May. It is understandable that a new airport, or any new........

Undergrads who neglect academic activities are donkeys, cows and politicos- S.B.

Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake in an interview with  last week spoke candidly on the issues raised by undergraduates and academics

Beyond Neo-liberalism Towards a sustainable and contented global order

Most countries around the world by now have gone through a process of economic and social transformation, to a greater or lesser extent, thanks to neo-liberal reforms that have pervaded the global landscape over the last several decades.

EDITORIAL-TNCs not rocking but robbing the cradles

The media have regularly spotlighted the grave and dangerously growing channals through  which wealthy western countries are continuing to plunder the resources

not just another political party

The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL), one of the oldest political parties in the country, celebrates its 20th National Congress which is to be held on July 25th – 27th, 2014 in Ratnapura.

Israel’s dangerous ignorance of its own history

If the people of Israel want to go back to memories of their war against the Arab nations after they had been attacked following the handover by the British in 1948; if they want to go back to the Holocaust..........

Big pharma probed for international corruption - EDITORIAL

Sri Lanka is still embroiled in a battle against the pharmaceuticals mafia and government leaders are apparently playing games with the people on the implementation of Prof. 

EDITORIAL-Get ready to sue tobacco companies

If there has ever been a good fight it is the struggle of the anti-tobacco lobby against tobacco companies.

Will Harin be the pointer in the barometer?

In the last two weeks, opposition United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian Harin Fernando has constantly been in the news.

Gaza: Massacre of children by Zionist Pharaohs

For the Zionists, the Palestinians do not exist. If they exist, they are not people; they are things – things to be wiped out.

Signor back ashore with renewed hopes BJP delights Govt

In 1505, a few Portuguese vessels under the guidance of Dom Lourenço de Almeida came   ashore to Sri Lanka mainly in their search of spices.  After more than 500 years, Portugal now looks for better ties with Sri Lanka, but not for the spice trade.

From Subsistence Production to Precarious Work

Liberal economic reforms implemented in Sri Lanka since the late 1970s have facilitated the transfer of a majority of people from rural livelihoods to non-agricultural activities, mostly in the informal sector.

urgent need to police the police - EDITORIAL

While the Armed Services are maintained mainly for national security, the Police Service is for the security and safety of civilians or the ordinary people for whom the police station needs to be a refuge where they could find a solution to a crisis or problem.

We will not allow an intrusive foreign probe

Dr. Subramanian Swamy - Chairman, BJP Committee on Strategic Action and Member of BJP’s National Executive Committee in an exclusive interview with  spoke candidly on what to expect in changes to India’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Modi’s administration and on India’s support to Sri Lanka.

Nation at the altar of faith

All indications of certain societal decay are present; the symptoms of a terminal sickness are frighteningly manifest in the body politic of the country. Yet no one, no physician, no surgeon, no psychiatrist or any other medical practitioner or a social scientist has diagnosed the illness.

EDITORIAL - Will there be a second crime?

Speaking to the media in Colombo, soon after the verdict on British Red Cross worker Khuram Shaikh was delivered on Friday, the brother of Khuram, Nasser Shaikh, said that he was “not ready to forgive the initial delays involved with the prosecution of his brother’s murde........

More than a peep into mysteries of the universe

Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan born veteran astronomer and astrobiologist. Well known and highly respected around the globe, he is currently the Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology........

Confusion clouds another special envoy’s visit

First it was Gopalaswamy Parthasarathy who came to Sri Lanka some thirty years ago as India’s special envoy to “assist” in this country’s long quest for peace. And then Parthasarathy’s successor......

EDITORIAL - The Child’s name is tomorrow

In this decadent self-centred world of crime and corruption, one of the vilest offences is the growing trend of child abuse. For instance, in Britain last week, special Police.......

‘Muslims are an integral part of the nation’

Former diplomat, educator and peace activist Javed Yusuf in an interview over recent development says it is very unfortunate that when we as a country are facing a number of challenges on the international front......

Lost in thoughts

Two incidents which have taken place recently have had their impact on the people in this country , one is the Uva Provincial Council has been dissolved,....

EDITORIAL- The Govt. Calculus

Education Minister Bandula Gunewardena has come up with a new solution to solve the nation’s Maths problem.

Tamil Leader Appapillai Amirthalingam’s assassination by the LTTE 25 Years Ago

July 13, 1989 was the date on which the well-known Sri Lankan Tamil leader Appapillai Amirthalingam was assassinated  by the LTTE.The former leader of the Opposition was a national list MP of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) at the time he was gunned down in Colombo.

Does Ukraine have a future?

When one sets out to answer the riddle about the future of Ukraine the answers that come depend to some extent on how far back one goes, but even if history casts a long shadow it is the events of the last half year, shaped by young demonstrators, mobs and militias, that dominate the narrative.

Mass murder in the sky: Stop this madness - EDITORIAL

If proof was required that the world has plunged into an era where judgment has fled to brutish beasts and world leaders have lost their senses, the two latest catastrophes provide the proof.

When disability is an ability

Great maestros who marked a revolution in the thinking patterns of people were not only great but were extraordinary. Beethoven mesmerised massive audiences with his evergreen pieces of piano sonata such as Appassionata and Waldstein.

Ramaphosa’s role remains unclear

One man who generated ample controversy, headlines and commentary last week was Cyril Ramaphosa, the Deputy President of South Africa and the Deputy President of its ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC) who visited Sri Lanka at the invitation of the government.

Inflaming the fuel crisis - EDITORIAL

Pandemic corruption, both financial and moral, caused or compounded by the breakdown of the rule of law and democracy, transparency and accountability, appears to be causing a cancer in most sectors of society including vital areas such as the purchase and supply of fuel.