Highways and Higher Education Minister Lakshman Kiriella in an interview with Daily Mirror said the government is stable. He said.....

Sri Lanka has just started recovering from one the worst catastrophes of this century, the recent devastating deluge, that witnessed....

Health and nutrition are vital for Sri Lanka’s sustainable growth and the Health Ministry is taking one important step from August 1 though attention today.....

In the recent past it appeared that the country and its people were paying dearly for past sins. While the cost of living kept soaring, nature too was.....

Dudley Senanayake, one of the trailblazers in the Sri Lankan political arena of all time is remembered for the exemplary service he.....

The then President R. Premadasa on October19, 1989, using the powers vested in him appointed Professor Lakshman Jayatilleke, Chairman, Professor G.L.Peiris.....

We of the unofficial Bar take great pride and satisfaction at your appointment as a judge of the apex court of our land. This is more so, as we have....

President Maithripala Sirisena finally brought a stalemate between him and the Prime Minister to an end, appointing respected economist Dr. Indrajit.....

In what most analysts see as a just and fair middle path solution to an administrative crisis that had gripped the National Unity.....

One of the important moves for which the National Government is being widely praised is the three-year mission to produce the nutritious food we need in Sri Lanka itself and make Sri Lanka a ‘Wasa Wisa Nethi’ country. An important step in

Chandana Ruwan Kumara, who teaches violin at two universities -- Kelaniya and Sri Jayawardhanepura -- is a dedicated researcher into music and the arts. A prolific journalist on the subject, he has produced three books so far. This soft-spoken, extra

‘Laylat Al-Qadr,’ or the Night of Decree, is a night equivalent to a thousand months. It was in this night of destiny that the very first verses of the glorious Al-Qur’an were revealed to the last and final messenger of God, Prophet

NATO has just announced a plan to send troops to the alliance’s eastern flank, close to the Russian border. NATO says it is attempting to deter potential Russian aggression.   

The United Nations Human Rights Council is in session. As expected it is assuming the moral high...  

More than one and half years after the people’s silent and peaceful revolution of January 8, 2015 major...

Sri Lanka has come a long way since President Sirisena’s election in January 2015. I have been...

The report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein...  

It is seven years since the end of the brutal civil war in Sri Lanka and yet reconciliation...

In November 1917, as Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Republic, Leon Trotsky was tasked to negotiate the nature of the peace accord with the German Imperial High Command. The delegation led by Trotsky, even as it was negotiating the terms

Having returned from India after a premature recall as High Commissioner, I am pleased to make my first public talk at the BCIS. Yet, it is also associated with a sad memory. We had a final meeting at this very hall at a ceremony to launch the journa

Allegations on Human Rights violations and war crimes set out in Joint UNHRC Resolution are considered only an strategy adopted by contenders of those allegations to achieve their own objectives. UNHRC, US and her allies in the west, India, Tamil Dia

President Maitripala Sirisena committed to abolish the executive presidency when seeking office at the election in January, last. But, he is reportedly in a dilemma now as to how it should be done. First, his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is not for

With Britain still reeling financially and politically in the aftermath of the vote to quit the European Union (EU), Sri Lanka also needs to reflect on what happened in this once-mighty empire and take the right lessons from it.

The manner in which the world media is covering significant events, the twists and turns it renders to the core substance of a major event and the preordained definitions it ascribes to the personalities and communities 

The Health Ministry on Sunday said in a statement that the number of dengue cases reported for the past six months

Yahapalanaya, the trademark of the present government has eventually become a misinterpretation 

An unidentified gunman opened fire at a prisoner who was being taken back to jail after a court case in a high security zone. Another incident took place where a woman had been shot dead outside the prison headquarters in Borella.

Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran has become a controversial figure in the recent past. Many

Traditionally,UNP does not possess lasting power in governing and it is historically proved. Juggling with democracy J.R. Jayewardene.....

The Sunday Times today reports that President Sirisena has called for the complete abolition of the Executive Presidency and having a.....