“We all remember the horrors of the past, the violence of three decades and the anti-democratic governments. Compare that situation to today. Civil society groups are flowering and members are key advisors in governmental task forces and decisi

They say that everything happens for a reason… nothing happens without a reason…this is what the Buddha

Today, August 17, marks the completion of one year since the 2015 general elections which led to the appointment of a National Unity Government between the two major parties -- the United National 

It was reported last week that President Maithripala Sirisena would be the chief guest at the 70th Anniversary celebrations of the United National Party (UNP). 

A Buddha appears in this World, out of great compassion, to benefit and delight countless suffering beings.  

“Many things can be achieved by appointing the right person at the right place. Capable persons should be appointed irrespective of religious differences, If true Dhamma is practised, this will 

News of an Ernest Hemingway look alike contest in distant Key West, Florida, USA, took me back to memories of first....

Colombo’s former Judicial Medical Officer Prof. Ananda Samarasekara has sent the following reply to our feature article....

Sri Lanka’s population vastly is rural and it was the rural population who gave enormous strength to the former....

Who represent the Muslim community in the government? The shocking answer is “NONE”.    One may ask “how could the....

Last week, the Megapolis and Western Development Ministry, the Urban Development Authority (UDA) and the local project company....

Though Sri Lanka is proclaimed to be free and sovereign, it is known that behind the scenes there is large scale lobbying....

One can hardly call a it a protest when children are used as pawns to sling mud at political rivals in bad language, when leading participants lick at popsicles and ice-cream, holding....

Tea took over from coffee after it fell to a type of leaf blight. But it took some time for James Taylor to pioneer ‘Ceylon Tea’ as a commercial product. Thanks to foreign interest.....

The war on terror, at least in terms of the way it’s been framed, leaves no room for heroes. On one side are the imperial powers, fighting to preserve their self-proclaimed “modern”....

Following are excerpts of the speech delivered by Upul Jayasuriya, Chairman of LawAsia 2016 at the opening ceremony of the LawAsia Conference.   It is my great privilege....

The first American missionaries arrived in Jaffna in 1813, when the Rev. Samuel Newell founded the first American schools in Thellipalai. Those schools were the first of hundreds of....

Saturday 13th August marked the 90th birth anniversary of Fidel Castro, the revolutionary, who led the 1959 Cuban Revolution, which overthrew the US-backed dictator Fugencio Batista, whose....

Buddhist culture is closely entwined with elephants and tuskers. In many Jathaka stories, the Bodhisatva was born in the elephant family and at the dream which Queen Maha Maya saw at the conception of the prince Siddhartha, we know of the elephant th

As part of what is widely seen as a major foreign policy shift by the National Government, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will today begin a six-day official visit to underline the new relationship with Beijing.  The complex, international,

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or 

The former head of the women’s political wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Subramaniam Sivakamialias Thamilini was again in the news from early this month for two reasons. 

In an important step towards restoring the vital place that agriculture had in Sri Lanka’s culture and 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Russia on Tuesday, just weeks after a failed military coup, which Erdogan supporters feel had the blessings of the United States, signals a 

The government was placed in a dilemma in Parliament over its business scheduled for the current sitting week as the Supreme Court ruled that the process of presenting the Value Added Tax (Amendment) bill was rendered null and void due to non adheren

The dailymirror spoke to Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara on the issues related to war heroes, missing persons and the mechanism to probe war crimes.   

There’s talk of constitutional reform. A lot of talk. There’s talk of what should go in and what should be taken out. People were appointed to gather ‘public opinion’ and the gatherers, as always, represent a particular segmen

The transport problem has become a burning issue for the people of the country and a substantial percentage of the productive time of the workforce has been lost on choked streets as a result of chronic vehicular congestion. The situation is further

With Sri Lanka still plagued by an inequitable distribution of wealth and resources including food and with malnutrition or undernourishment reported to be much higher than official figures for immediate relief we could take a lesson from what some s

Wasim Thajudeen, a talented rugby player, a friend to all and a man full of smiles, was brutally murdered and his body was left in a charred state at Narahenpita, four years ago.