With last week’s release of a taped conversation between the Editor of The Sunday Leader Lasantha Wickrematunge and former President Mahinda Rajapakse, there has been a buzz of speculation as to who released the tape and why the tape was releas

Extracts from the speech made at the public meeting at Matugama to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Lank Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)

Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure Harin Fernando, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, says the government will start....

The Joint Opposition MP for the Anuradhapura District Shehan Semasinghe, in an interview with the Daily Mirror , says it is thoroughly....

Victims of identity theft are seldom aware of their plight. Thakshila Sumanasiri from Kandy alleges that a former housemaid has stolen....

Sri Lanka is heading towards foreseeable crisis centring rice. This is not the first time we are up against a rice crisis, nor will it be the last.

What we are witnessing today across the world is unprecedented, be it the triumph of Donald Trump in the United States, the fast changing political landscape in Europe,   

Last year it was a bra this year it is a tree; Sri Lanka apparently likes to finish the year off with a controversial bang. This year, the proposed ‘World’s Tallest Christmas Tree’ at Galle Face has managed to stir up quite a debate

Young and old alike, all of us have experienced or learned about momentous happenings that shook our world. Some events are painful to remember: the Nazi campaign of destruction, presidential assassinations, terrorist attacks. Others are joyous news:

When Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea the first Christmas night, the angelic voices that rang out from its distant hills echoed Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to people of goodwill. 

There was much activity and excitement in the Children’s Home. The kind of thrilling excitement and atmosphere that pervades it perhaps a couple or so times during the year at Christmas, Vesak and the Sinhala and Hindu New Year.  

In a recent address to over 180 nations in New Delhi, President Maithripala Sirisena proudly described Sri Lanka’s progress....

No more motorcycles. Suddenly, I was back to taking the bus or train when travelling to Kandy. Or, when going with my family....

In Sri Lanka, where students marching on the streets demanding their right to education is a common sight, the story of Shalika Navodini....

Over the past few months alone, newspapers have prominently reported on a number of massive hauls of heroin nabbed by law....

It is said that time is the only true unit of measure. The indisputably valuable time should be utilized for the benefit of mankind. The Sun and time are inseparable.

Recently, the Daily Mirror published an article on an Ayurveda physician, Dr.D.D.A.Hettiarachchi who claimed he could cure dengue. Authentic Ayurveda inarguably contains healing properties.

Health literacy implies the achievement of a level of knowledge, personal skills and confidence to take action to improve personal and community health by changing personal lifestyles and living conditions.

A public seminar was held recently to celebrate the 68th International Human Rights Day. Titled ‘Let us change the mindset before....

Mithrarathna Kanaththage, a retired banker, has introduced five new methods to solve the famous Theorem of Pythagoras recently. He....

Vijaya Dahanayake, eldest son of the revered teacher K. Dahanayake, was our classmate at Richmond College, who bid goodbye to....

In 1959, Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike appointed hand-picked, Aleric Abeykoon and in 1955 Sir John Kotalawala appointed Royce de Mel, as IGP and Navy Commander respectively, to head the two institutions and Sirimavo paid the penalty in the early 1

Human Rights Defenders(HRDs) are prosecuted worldwide for their activism. According to FORUM-ASIA 24 HRDs have lost their lives in the past year alone, while more than 362 cases of violation and abuses have been recorded. 

I just can’t believe; I just can’t believe,” Shelton Perera kept muttering on his return  from the Gaja Muduna Temple after inviting the chief incumbent there for a pirith ceremony and an almsgiving the following day in memory

‘Christmas is coming and no folk should be sad’ goes an old Christmas Carol. So don’t you be sad but make yourself glad. ‘Joy to the world, the Lord is come’ reads another carol. So why not be joyous? The angels too sang

The season is back and the days are ticking fast for the bells to chime; bringing in the celebration of Christmas. Of course we are coming to the end of a glorious year of uncertainties dominated by how the White House got ‘Trumped’ and B

Dr. D. D. A. Hettiarachchi, a traditional ayurvedic doctor from  Ganemulla, claims to have found cure 

On November 22, the Cabinet approved a Bill focusing on elephants kept domestically, which also 

Despite volumes of research and recommendations for reform, Sri Lanka’s Muslim Marriage and 

Dudley Senanayake, the reluctant politician, entered the political fray at a very young age-he was