“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing hims

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, globally known as CITES, is an international.....

The office of the Auditor General is a position constitutionally guaranteed in Sri Lanka and protected worldwide with wide powers and....

A recent letter from the well known and respected ENT Surgeon Dr. Cynthia Jayasuriya in the Daily Mirror of July 25 under the interesting....

Paradoxically though, protests in this country have become something akin to a Roman circus.They are no better than reality television and.....

The authorities have agreed with the private bus operators to increase bus fares by six per cent from yesterday. However, the journey in....

The Youth Commission in their report as far back as 1990 had recommended that the Parliament being the central institution....

We talk a great deal about change in the modern world. We want change because we want to have better circumstances around.....

Despite various government programmes and efforts, the chronic renal disease that started from the dry zone of the country continues to take....

Is it safe for our children to watch films? Are they unfairly exposed to commercial influences under the guise of creativity and....

Kashmir is once again in the news -unfortunately for all the wrong reasons. The Kashmir Valley once famed for its picturesque beauty and the....

The Incirlik air base in south-east Turkey -- from which US pilots launch bombing raids on ISIS forces in Syria -- is home to about 50 B-61 hydrogen bombs. That makes it NATO’s largest nuclear storage facility.   

Today is the World Day against Trafficking in Persons and the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a message calls on all countries to come together to overcome this transnational threat by supporting and protecting victims while pursuing

“I strongly believe that it is impossible to explain architecture in words. I have seldom enjoyed seeing buildings and seldom reading explanation about them. Architecture cannot be totally explained, but must be experienced,”- Geoffrey Ba

My first introduction to Bertolt Brecht was through the Sinhala adaptation of his play “Caucasian Chalk Circle” by renowned, respected and award winning Sinhala playwright and producer, late Henry Jayasena.

Politicisation is accepted as inevitable in almost every government sector institution.

It appears that protests have become a part of our lives. Not a day passes without a protest being held in Colombo or elsewhere. Indeed it is a good sign of a vibrant democracy, so long as the state is not turned into a protestocracy or government by

In the aftermath of the brutal murder of a Catholic priest at a church near Normandy in France on Tuesday, Pope Francis in a spirit of mercy has gone beyond individual indoctrination or some mental imbalance to analyze the root causes of terrorism. S

It is quite unnatural for an Opposition to attempt to topple a newly elected Government soon after Parliamentary elections, since any new government would gain further strength, at least for a year after its coming to office. 

The above title was copied from a highlighted news item that appeared in the front page of the state-run Ceylon Daily News of March 23, 1992. The text under the headline—

Ahead of Pada Yatra, the protest march from Kandy to Colombo, President Maithripala Sirisena, as the leader of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), convened the party’s MPs sitting with the Joint 

Northern Province Chief Minister and former Judge of the Supreme Court C.V. Wigneswaran spoke to the Dailymirror at his official residence in Jaffna. During the interview, he spoke of the recent clash at the Jaffna University, the personal and

Despite the marvels of modern medical technology different forms of cancer are raging worldwide for 

A mild and entertaining debate was sparked when President Maithripala Sirisena took part in a ceremony to enshrine treasures at the site of the Moragahakanda-Kalu Ganga Irrigation Development 

A multitude of civic action movements played a major role in mobilizing people power for the silent revolution on January 8 last year. Many of them are now complaining that the new national 

Recently we witnessed a prominent “civil society activist” expressing views in favour of the privatisation of education at a meeting organised by ‘Purawasi Balaya’ garnering displeasure from a 

“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right 

Sri Lanka is blessed with plenty of rainforests that had contributed to regulating its climatic conditions over the years. Yet during the recent past, people with influential

Underlying this commitment to each other is also a political interdependence, an acknowledgement that they need each other to secure the basic political objective of staying in power and holding onto it 

Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, says....