Since September last year national government leaders have been drawing up plans while working 

Since the shooting of two university students in Jaffna on Thursday, October 20 late night, there were interesting captions in news stories in both Sinhala and English media (unfortunately I cannot read Tamil).   

With regard to the current state of the economy and the Way Ahead, I would like to recall the speech I made in the House on November 5, 2015.     

National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader MP Wimal Weerawansa, in an interview with Daily Mirror, says the period ahead would be decisive in the political circuit as the internal squabbles of the government are taking a turn for the worse. He says it would

Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) stalwart, Megapolis and Western  Province Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka says, in an  interview with Daily Mirror, that his party is happy about the two major  parties getting together for gove

It was not so long ago that we saw participants in the Asian, African, Eastern European and Latin American countries claiming that the elections that were held in their countries were rigged in favour of the government or political party in power of

The Foreign Minister, Mangala Samaraweera, has pleaded that action be taken more seriously than word. Speaking at a press briefing on the subject of a vote on a UNESCO resolution, Samaraweera referring to controversial remarks made by President Maith

The battle against the chronic kidney disease is to be intensified with President Maithripala Sirisena 

Lenin famously identified three conditions for a revolution. The rulers should feel unable to rule in the 

The Ceylon Electricity Board once again imposed an islandwide power cut recently following the 

Dr. Palitha Kohona, the Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka at the United Nations in New York, in an interview with  says it is important to remember that a complex and 

The Chief Economist of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Anushka  Wijesinha, in an interview with Dailymirror  by email, says the  proposed Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement 

The recent controversial speech made by President Maithripala Sirisena at the Sri Lanka Foundation.....

The Leader of the House Lakshman Kiriella says that equal rights of the people should be ensured through power sharing with the....

By Joint Opposition’s Parliamentary Group Leader Dinesh Gunawardane, in an interview with Daily Mirror, says President Maithripala Sirisena....

The tragic deaths of two Jaffna university students in an alleged police shooting raise disturbing questions. Police fired at the two....

The death of two university students at Kokkuvil in Jaffna when they were shot at by the police when they had defied orders to....

Road accidents have become a major cause of death, causing roughly 7 deaths each day, not to mention tens of thousands....

As a former Ambassador to the EU (I had two postings in Brussels) I could state without fear of being contradicted that the withdrawal of the GSP....

New breed of bureaucrats are obedient servants because they owe their appointments to Politicians. Public services need to.....

The delay in executing the law has made people lose faith in the judicial system. This is a common problem found worldwide, where similar judicial....

State Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development, Dilip Wedarachchi returned recently to Sri Lanka after a seven day.....

As it is well known, ethnic tensions in the country have been on the rise again in recent times. This does not necessarily mean that....

The US presidential election will be held in November this year. There are major differences between the US presidential election....

In the middle of last month Pakistani militants moved across the “line of control” that separates Pakistan-controlled Kashmir from the Indian-controlled part. The two countries have been at loggerheads about the title to this gorgeously b

In order to make this letter short, I append below the first two paragraphs extracted from the Preface in Volume I of “Legislative Enactments of Ceylon”, in force on 30th June 1956, prepared under the authority of the “Revised Editi

Street vendors who sell fruits and vegetables are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide-range of goods and services in public domain. Most street vendors provide the main source of income for their house

The National Unity Government, in one of the most important moves of its sustainable development programme, has launched a three year mission for Sri Lanka to grow its own nutritious food without any “Wasa Wisa” from agro-chemicals or oth

I hadn’t heard of Kaveesha Ayeshani until her untimely death in a car accident. That’s because I do not have the time to watch tele dramas. This may be partly due to a feeling that there has been a drop in quality over the years. But this

President Maithripala Sirisena and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) members within the government