History has shown that the powerful role of prophetic figures and statesmen or women, is to comfort the disturbed or the distressed and to disturb the comfortable. Thus the comfortable world was disturbed and hopefully shocked yesterday, when the Uni

Aviation history fascinates me and I’ve seen enough WWII pictures of Hurricanes and Spitfires, the 

Succession of leadership of political parties is always a subject of controversy. In Sri Lanka, of all these political entities, which came into being in the early part of the 20th Century, the overall political 

On September 5 this year, the Global  Sri Lankan Forum conducted a public seminar titled ‘Geneva Resolution and Federalism as it is 

With the World Health Organisation’s South and Southeast Asian Regional Council holding its session in Colombo, the spotlight is on the epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and a 

Mini hydro power plants are steadily conquering the energy sector in Sri Lanka. Amidst much controversy, private....

In 2009, then President Mahinda Rajapaksa had to let in thoughts begrudgingly, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on....

Sri Lanka will today launch a powerful move in the battle against climate change, with the installation of renewable solar energy.....

The youngest premature baby in Sri Lanka was born on June 19 of this year, at the Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital. The...

The World Health Organization has always played a crucial role in supporting the Sri Lankan healthcare system with its....

“We realized it was better to understand the Dhamma taught by Lord Buddha in-depth and to pursue the path to attain...

“Meeeeoooowwww” screeched Tommo, a pussycat as he spun the wheel of a new hybrid limousine belonging to his mistress Joy Perera....

The public health landscape in Sri Lanka is fast changing due to rapid urbanisation and because of the effects of globalisation.....

Parliament is a key institution in our democracy. Didn’t we form ‘governments of politicians, by the politicians, for the politicians’ since....

The Defence Ministry should be praised not only for taking this most important initiative to hold this seminar and for the sixth....

In the way of resistance, there were few lonely voices…In the main, though, the foreigner took the Ceylonese upper class....

Mother Teresa of Calcutta also known as the “Saint of the Gutters”, was canonized Mother Teresa of Kolkata by Pope Francis......

“To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a power

Next Thursday September 8 is the golden jubilee of the International Literacy Day proclaimed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The theme of this gold-letter day is, “Reading the Past, Writing the

Recent UN and FAO reports reveal that world is losing forest at the rate of 3 million hectares a year, according to 2010 - 2015 figures. Sadly, Sri  Lanka has also been trapped in the same boat for many years, and our forest cover is below 20% o

The defeat in 2009 of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which had overrun many huge military bases in the.....

Address by Senior Professor Ravindra Fernando, Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, University of Colombo.....

Sri Lanka’s youth are often viewed as firebrands. It isn’t surprising considering the riots of ’83 to the almost monthly protests....

Next Monday September 5 is the International Day of Charity and the United Nation in a statement says charity contributes to.....

The Sri Lanka Campaign to Ban Landmines (SLCBL) on August 25 handed over a petition entitled “Ban Anti-personnel Landmines and Cluster Munitions in Post-war Sri Lanka”  to President Maithripala Sirisena.  The petition was signed

One of the most unfortunate things about establishing good governance in Sri Lanka is that its main advocates chose as flag-bearers people who neither knew nor cared about it. In a word, politicians. 

Panic struck certain quarters in politics last week after media reports appeared quoting Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera as having said that the new draft Constitution would be presented to Parliament for enactment prior to the budget. &

Sexual abuse cases where doctors abuse patients are seldom worldwide, as there are stringent ethics and standards in place by the health administration to prevent such incidents. Even in the Hippocratic Oath, which states the standards and ethics tha

A senior journalist said that when he recently went to a private hospital to consult a specialist, there were three patients and as many as 12 marketing representatives of drug companies. This shows the magnitude and complexity of the medicinal drug

In a historic first official visit Down South to Matara, Opposition Leader and Tamil National Alliance MP R. Sampanthan talks about the connection between Buddhism and Hinduism and the importance of Sinhala-Tamil unity. Following are excerpts from th