With May 19 marking the end of the 30-year war between the security forces and the LTTE, preparations are being made to.....

Converting waste to energy is still a novel phenomenon to our country, although a dire need. The solid-waste management solution piloted at the.....

Contradicting environmentalists’ view that coal should be abandoned in the process of electricity production, Managing Director of....

Last week, ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa travelled to Uganda to grace the inauguration ceremony of President Yoweri Museveni, who.....

Tomorrow is World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) and this year the theme will be “ICT entrepreneurship for social.....

Sri Lanka joined the world to mark International Nurses’ Day on May 12 with the theme being ‘Nurses: A Force 

Earlier  this week, Lord Naseby wrote to the Sri Lankan President, ahead of his  attendance at the Anti

Abandoned by Arab regimes and vilified by the pro-Zionist world media, the people of Palestine...  

Amid one of the world’s biggest ever financial scandals revolving round the Panama papers, Briton’s...

Palani Digambaram, the leader of the National Union of Workers (NUW) and the Up-country New...

The shifting and unpredictable weather pattern is the most talked about topic today, especially in Sri...

A commission was appointed by President Chandrika Kumaratunga to probe the assassination as part

Get ready to jam with the juniors of ‘Soul Sound Academy’, on May 12. The youngsters of the academy

Ragging in universities is taking centrestage in the media these days inviting us to editorially discuss the 

In the current debate on India-Sri Lanka trade, it is often said that the trade deficit between India and Sri

Bandula Gunawardena, economic analyst and one-time deputy finance minister of the United National Party (UNP) Gover

This May Day I resisted the siren song of being participant-observer (engaging in “participatory action research” as the late GVS de Silva termed it), and preferred to stay home, surf the three channels that provided live coverage of the

When the LTTE was militarily defeated certain sections called for an immediate withdrawal of the security forces from the former conflict zone.  That was laughable if not preposterous. 

Two years ago, Indian journalist Samanth Subramanian completed his second book ‘This Divided Island’, an insightful and thought-provoking account of the Sri Lankan war and its aftermath. Written as Narrative Non-Fiction, the book recounts

On to your right is the vast expanse of the deep blue sea. From the South-East tip of this island country, Arugam Bay all the way up to Point-Pedro, the northernmost point of real estate in Sri Lanka, the continuous break of wave after wave on the hi

According to the ‘Prohibition of ragging and other forms of violence in educational Institutions Act, No 20 of 1998’, ‘ragging’ is defined as “any act which causes or is likely to cause physical or psychological injury o

Professor Sarath Wijesooriya, convener of the National Movement for a Just Society, in an interview with....

From the day of conception, mother bears the child in her womb carrying the embryo while walking, sitting, sleeping or working until the....

London has elected its first Muslim and non-White mayor, Sadiq Khan, a son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver, who will now....

May is widely seen as the year’s most beautiful month, and it may be the best month for all people to do our part to restore the.....

The slow and steady pace of the good governance regime was celebrated for just a few months before certain decisions became contradictory.....

On May 1, 1886, in Chicago, a workers’ strike with a demand for an eight-hour working day gave birth to ‘May Day’ sometimes called Labour.....

In the days of Mao Tse-tung, it used to called ping pong diplomacy. Chinese table tennis teams were sent abroad as a goodwill gesture......

“Developed countries are run by experts and professionals, no matter what political party comes into power. That is why these countries....

In an earlier article, I pointed out that there was an urgent need to increase productivity of labour and value added production, in order to....