On 14 November the Human Rights Committee heard a case by an alleged torture victim, Roy Manojkumar Samathanam,...

If one were to assess President Barack Obama’s global leadership in the past eight years in absolute terms, the scorecard will not be impressive enough to keep him on the pedestal of...

Christmas is drawing near. It has become fashionable to get into a season of celebration, but do you know, who you are celebrating? Well, if you really know, you will celebrate forever.  

The Faculty of Performing Arts of the Kelaniya University hosted a very interesting evening of music and discussion on Thursday Dec. 01.  

After the death of Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the powerful Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on December 5, the political situation in the State seems to have been in uncertainty...

When independence was granted to Ceylon, the alternative to the United National Party (UNP) at the 1947 parliamentary election was the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). 

As we move into the festive season, we need to be aware that the New Year’s priority issues for the international community including Sri Lanka will be poverty alleviation, the battle against climate change or global warming and the peaceful re

JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has made two statements regarding reconciliation via constitutional reform. Firstly, he has said that a referendum on a new constitution should not be approached the way the Presidential Election was fought. In tha

Instead of importing junk foods and processed rubbish at a high cost in foreign exchange, the National Government has launched a three-year mission to grow our own nutritious food -- Grains vegetables and fruits -- in our own country. This will be do

Fissures within the national unity government between United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) look widened....

The Dailymirror recently had an interview with Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam on the current political situation in the country. Excerpts; 

It was perhaps the biggest Sri Lanka related news story of the year that is about to end. It should have been picked up by the international media but unsurprisingly it wasn’t – though it would have been, once.

With Sri Lanka’s two major political parties working together in a National Government for the first time since independence and with intensified moves for inter-religious and inter-racial dialogue and unity in diversity, International Solidari

The country that SWRD Bandaranaike left behind to his successors resembled an experiment that had gone bust in the laboratory, not for reasons that the belief in the core theory was flawed, but more for the fact that those who were bequeathed to carr

I was standing in the queue inside a State bank recently when a uniformed policeman stepped up to the counter in total disregard of the queue. The young woman at the counter served him without so much as raising her brows.  

State Minister of Highways Dilan Perera, who is also the spokesman of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) speaks about the....

Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment and Welfare Ranjan Ramanayake speaks about corruption investigations, present status of....

Two weeks ago, Navy Commander Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne assaulted provincial journalist Rohan Pradeep Kumara who....

Judicial independence, a vital dimension for a vibrant democracy, is being gradually restored by the National Government, but the....

In China, agriculture had long been the most pivotal sector of the economy. A large majority of people had lived in rural villages, until recently. However, by the time Mao’s period ended, China’s peasants had been impoverished and thorou

On Friday (16.12.2016) Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake announced that the World Bank had decided to extend a soft loan of US$ 1,340 million to Sri Lanka at a low interest rate. 

The Registrar of the Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya and the patron of the National Bhikku Front Ven. (Prof.) Attangane Rathanapala Thera who continues to intervene in social reconstruction had the following to share when interviewed  by media.

This is the theme of the World Consumer Day celebrating every 15 the day of March since 1983, when President John F. Kennedy 

The Centre for Eco-Cultural Studies (CES) had invited that internationally known lady, Sangita Iyer, who has produced an award winning documentary “Gods in Shackles” to visit our country with a laudable motive in mind, 

President-elect Donald Trump has decided to poke China in the eye. He has phoned Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, assuring her of America’s support. Yes, the US has always supported Taiwan but usually behind the scenes, apart from its arms sup

With creative thinking being promoted in vital areas such as healthcare, Sri Lanka also needs to broaden its outlook and do more research on the preventive and curative properties in all systems of medicine. At present more emphasis is given to allop

In a recent interview with The Hindu at the Temple Trees in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe expressed his views on how an unusual political project had gone thus far. 

The Syrian government troops’ victory in Aleppo against the rebels and the western powers’ concern over civilian casualties may appear all too familiar to Sri Lankans. The allegations now being hurled at the Syrian troops are similar to t

To mark International Migrants Day on Sunday December 18, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is calling on the world community to come together and remember the refugees and migrants who have lost their lives or have disappeared while

After Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe made an apology in Parliament on December 5 over the burning down of the Jaffna Library in 1981, some had criticized him saying that it was an unintended and off-the-cuff apology, which is true.