Some popular films portray the use of alcohol and cigarettes in a very noticeable way. One tends to wonder if this is just a part of the....

Significantly on the International Nelson Mandela Day yesterday, the National Government launched a landmark move towards....

Sakyamuni Tathagata Gautama, the Buddha was constantly accompanied by a large group of Bhikkhus during his final stage of life....

All Buddhists commemorate with great devotion, the significance of the Esala Full Moon Day when Buddha delivered his first sermon....

It was an enlightening and informative experience to listen to Chito Gascon, Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of The Philippines.....

Today the well publicised man vs. elephant conflict in certain parts of the country has reached dismal levels and needs immediate attention....

The proposed Animal Welfare Bill has been welcome news for Animal Rights activists who have been clamouring for the introduction of....

The memories of the thirty year ethnic conflict remain to haunt the lives of all Sri Lankans to date.  Millions of soldiers....

“I want to serve my country.” were the words that revealed the true character of the man who sat across from.....

The Youth Commission report says that “The existing institutions have been so eroded and reduced to atrophy either by politicians or....

After losing more than two dozen elections, the United National Party (UNP), was voted into office last year. The entire Muslim....

In the not so distant past in this country, a President pushed through the House of Parliament an Amendment to the Constitution in....

Terrorists struck in France again last Thursday, the third time in two months. The US, France and the UK....

The crime of aggression (“planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression”) was described by the Nuremberg Tribunal that tried Nazi leaders as “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes

Animal rights activists have made a strong protest regarding plans to send a baby elephant to New Zealand’s Auckland Zoo. According to a news report, “the attorney general on July 13 undertook the maintain the status quo till August 2 til

Food and the rising cost of living are much in focus these days, with the Supreme Court ordering the suspension of the controversial increases in the Value Added Tax (VAT) rates, and the government imposing maximum retail prices on 15 essential items

Sri Lankan growth prospect for 2020 and beyond, largely depend on the key activities of innovations, inventions and new product developments well beyond the existing level of activities. The population of 20 million plus , with still available land ,

Commaraswamy made the above observation in the midst of rumours circulating on setting up an authority, based on a proposal by PM, encompassing all financial and economic 

Like a volcano that erupts every now and then throwing out lava, Kashmir this week exploded. Instead 

The Chilcot Report or the report prepared by Sir John Chilcot on the United Kingdom’s involvement in the US led 2003 Iraq war and the lessons to be learnt from it failed to shake     

Today is World Youth Skills Day -- vitally important because it concerns the next generation -- and the United Nations, with Sri Lanka playing a key role, is observing the day with a special event on the 

Exactly one month ago, i.e. on the 16th of June 2016, the High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein offering a global update at the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council made a dire observation. He said ‘hate is being ma

Apparently left with no option, the government on Tuesday decided to impose price control or a maximum retail price for 15 essential items in a bid to curb the soaring living cost, which has caused widespread public disappointment or dissent.  &

Less than one year has lapsed after the General Elections, but the mainstream political parties ready themselves for the future parliamentary election due in 2020 by giving their mind to the kind of strategies to be evolved for electoral success. &nb

1. The State is pledged to establish in Sri Lanka a Democratic Socialist Society, the objectives of which include–

The second and final part of the interview with author Salman Rushdie of which the first part was published on the  yesterday. Rushdie speaks of contemporary literature, the importance of art to society, personal favourites and about Sri Lanka a

“I learnt to question religious and political orthodoxy and to be a person of ideas". Salman Rushdie, acclaimed author whose second book ‘Midnight's Children’ (1981) was awarded the ‘ Booker of Bookers’ prize,

In a fruitful step towards creating a ‘wasa wisa nethi’ country where we grow our own nourishing 

July is back again to haunt us. It was thirty-three years ago on the 24th of this month some of the 

The core mission of the government established by J R Jayewardene in 1977, after a disastrous spell of economic stagnation generated and sustained by the preceding regime of Mrs. Bandaranaike, was