Tamil National Alliance Leader R. Sampanthan, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, said the Geneva resolution...

Early this month, a separatist militant named Burhan Wani was killed in a gun battle with the Indian Army in the Indian administered....

In a major step to consolidate national unity by taking the waters of the Mahaweli to the Northern and Eastern provinces also, President Maithripala Sirisena....

President Maithripala Sirsena in a stoical revelation yesterday said there was a close link between the ceremony held to lay the...

Instigated by a chauvinistic minister, hooligans set the city on fire and President JR Jayewardene played Nero for four days, fearing....

The country will soon celebrate Esala at the end of Poson Full Moon. Esala Poya Day, according to Buddhist history, records significant.....

Why did a group of powerful Ministers including a few Secretaries to the Ministries are mounting pressure on the President and the....

Two weeks ago on 23 June, a surprising sequence of events which started with the UK vote to exit the European Union, the....

Europe is under attack from both ends. In the West, Brexit, the referendum to take Britain out of the European Union (EU). In the East, Turkey, which is not formally a member because of the veto made by the conservative last President of France, Nico

Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne, proudly boasting that he believes Sri Lanka has one of the best health services in the region, on Thursday received a World Health Organisation (WHO) certificate declaring Sri Lanka as a filaria-free country. He say

An elderly gentleman was preparing our breakfast in an Ankara hostel. My friend and fellow journalist Latheef Farook and I greeted him as we walked into the kitchen. Leaning against the pantry cupboard, 

Though many may have forgotten it, yesterday, July 21 marked the new chapter in the history of Sri 

The killing of singer, dancer and social media star Qandeel Baloch by her brother highlights the 

After yet another visit by the two US Assistant Secretaries of State, Nisha Biswal and Tom Malinowski one cannot help noticing the proximity of the visit to that of Chinese Foreign Minister 

Following is a speech made by Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera at the South Asia Diaspora Conference Panel on the Geo-Politics of South Asia.   

Unlike during the communal riots in the past, very few groups tried to rouse the communal feelings of 

After seeing through Sri Lanka’s successful World Cup campaign in 1996, Ana Punchihewa, the then Sri Lanka Cricket Board president, had never thought he would fail at the election of 

Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, in an interview with the Dailymirror, says VAT increase was introduced with the aim of collecting Rs.100 billion in terms of revenue for the government. However, he said it was regrettable to note the rev

Former Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa, in an interview with Dailymirror before he was arrested and remanded, said that the Lanka Freedom Party had virtually been divided at the moment. He said the new political movement brace

In Britain and several other Western countries, the civil and public services have to a large extent functioned independently, effectively and beyond party politics. Governments may change but the civil and public service go on to serve the people in

When she was one-and-a-half months old, little Buddhima’s skin turned extremely pale. “Her eyes, soles, palms turned yellow,” said U.L Chaminda, 36, the father of Buddhima Shihara who has been diagnosed with liver failure at a tende

Nature itself is an amazing gift of God to mankind which possesses silvery waterfalls, natural habitat, green hills and landscapes. But unfortunately, it is very rarely that we get a chance of stopping by or having a break to admire these precious sp

Contexts count. Hostage rescue operations are different from wars. Responding to military aggression is different from declaring war on a country on a pretext such as the possession of non-existent weapons of mass destruction. July ’83 is diffe

“Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.”  

Sooner, rather than later, there will have to be a ‘Mexit’: Mangala Samaraweera’s exit from the Foreign 

Minister of National Co-existence Dialogue and Official Languages Mano Ganesan in an interview with the  spoke on the process of reconciliation, issues surrounding the 

Two points cited by the students union of the Jaffna University on the clash between two factions of students of the university on Saturday were so important that they invite attention. The union called on 

Amidst Don’ts there is a Do. SMS will read - get the economy back on track: price of food, value of money, loss of business, static salaries, slow turnover of money circulation, are in the debit column.   

The glittering ensemble of Lord Buddha’s noble disciples including the Eighty Great Ones were personages virtually all of whom....

Weliwita Asarana Sarana Saranankara Sangharaja whose birth is remembered as the saviour of Buddhism , yet he was also accused....