Taking credit for the outcome of the war is continuing and with the launch of a book by Maj. Gen. Kamal Guneratne recently, the war victory has once again taken centrestage. In reply to our queries about Maj. Gen. Guneratne’s war effort as narr

The relative lull over the debate on the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with India was broken with the two-day visit of India’s Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to discuss it.   

You’ve heard of the “We Tamils” (who beat up High Commissioner Ansar). Now we have the “E-Tamils”–the “Eluga/Ezhuga Tamils” (or simply Eelam Tamils?). They shut down Jaffna, took over its 

Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran is under fire both from North and the South over 

Ms. Himali Jayatilake – Deputy Chairperson of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) explains why the 

‘It has merely been a talk shop with resolutions and statements. Its notorious genocide resolution a month after regime change in Colombo last year, apparently passed to mobilise international actors, 

Z-score cut off marks were released last week. While some students cried in jubilation some others were heartbroken as....

The following is an extract of the speech delivered by newly-appointed Justice Sithambarampillai Thurairaja who has been....

Medical negligence is a worldwide phenomenon; however, it is studied to a great extent in countries whose healthcare systems....

It seems Principals of some public and private schools are enforcing morality as over zealously as Mullahs in Tehran. A few....

Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne, speaking at the Senaka Bibile Commemoration meeting last Friday,proclaimed that....

Though the government has pledged to navigate all communities collectively towards peace and reconciliation, war tourism and land-grabbing for purposes of 

The eighth of September this year is the fifth death anniversary of Deshamanya Cyril Herath, former 

The 31st of August 1870 was a memorable day in the town of Chiaravalle, Italy. Maria Montessori, the greatest educationist of our....

Watching the evening news on Catastrophic TV, Shelton Perera the proprietor of the Wallside Restaurant and Bar nearly....

President Maithripala Sirisena is nothing if not outspoken, when it comes to gender-sensitive issues. While handing out life-time....

Parliaments in the past few decades have been weak, ineffective and neglected. Modernization and reforms in Parliament.....

Taxation is a key public policy instrument that modern democratic States use to reduce social inequality and ensure.....

In March 2011 a simple pro-democracy protest rally shook the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The crude mishandling of....

During this week the Daily Mirror editorials have focused on how transnational companies are manipulating the markets to dump their products here though the quality is questionable and some of them are even known to contain possibly  cancer-caus

The two American presidential candidates give the impression of being rather hostile towards China. This is counterproductive. “The US should not adopt confrontation as a strategy of choice. In China, the US would encounter an adversary skilled

When Premasiri Khemadasa’s ‘Pirinivan Mangalyaya’ is performed after seven years, the event becomes important enough to be called an occasion. This musical rebirth was possible due to the tireless efforts of Gayathri Khemadasa, the

Powerful transnational corporations especially those involved in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and 

The outbreak of the Zika virus in early 2015 in South America caught health officials off guard. The 

In neighbouring India, which recently signed a defence agreement with the US, enabling the two 

Climate change is now internationally accepted as a scientific fact. At present, the global climate is changing at an 

Ahead of Parliamentary business over two key financial matters - a Supplementary Estimate and an Amendment to the Appropriation Act for 2016, the Government was facing a dilemma as 30 of its members had gone overseas, most without approval even.

Politics is about power. Rhetoric is frill. Objection on grounds of morality, unconstitutionality, illegality etc., with chest-beating to accompany the uttering of terms such as good governance, democracy, accountability and transparency, amounts to

In our sister paper the Lankadeepa yesterday and below our Editorial today we published a picture that would break even the hardest hearts and bring tears. The picture shows a Polonnaruwa mother at the bottom of a well, with a small ladder - a rope,

The Department of Motor Traffic in Werahera, popularly known as RMV, has been one of the main destinations visited by many individuals with a dream of obtaining a driver’s licence. But lately, there have been rumours about bribing activities th