Contrary to the popular belief, massacre of violent demonstrators in Chicago did not take place on May 1, but May 4, 1886. 

As politicians, trade union leaders and the workers prepare to mark what many see as Sri Lanka’s most party-politicised May Day in recent decades...

Iran is a country where women are banned from watching football matches. Nor can they sing in public.

The snub President Barak Obama received at the Riyadh airport when he arrived for a regional summit...

With some terrorist groups and even countries resorting to the barbarism of chemical warfare and the...

The resolution that was adopted by the Northern Provincial Council last Friday has opened a political...

Before we examine the action and events originated by the Tamil leadership of Sri Lanka that defined...

No argument that he was “The Guru” for many new comers to cinema or to television. Everyone...

The much visited Dehiwela Zoological Gardens has been subjected to much criticism from animal...

Road and railway accidents have taken many innocent lives away. But some of them happen due to negligence of victims themselves.

I will tell you what happened exactly.  I went to Kilinochchi where I addressed a meeting in the compound

As we prepare for what is perhaps the most party politicised May Day in recent decades, it is significant 

May Day is meant for the advocating of workers’ rights, but it has become a political event the years with

Canagasabapathy Visuvalingam Wigneswaran has a lot of opinions.  To him, Veluppillai Prabhakaran is a hero.

Agents and vested interests sponsored by trans-national pharmaceutical   corporations appear to be trying to undermine the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) after they tried for about 10 years to delay, derail or dilute the Bill to

Several articles have appeared recently, including one by columnist Ranga Jayasuriya who wrote about his own experiences as a rag victim at university.  His experience vis-a-vis a Vice Chancellor rang a bell as I recalled, what a friend told me

In the weeks ahead when the second lot of the ‘Panama Papers’ revelations is expected to be published, it will be interesting to see if any Americans are included in the list. The Mossack Fonseca data leak  included 3072 companies, 4

Anyone has a right to call for federalism but not in every which way and anywhere they like. If the members of the Northern Provincial Council gathered as a collection of citizens and not as the official NPC, and held a seminar at the Veerasingham Ha

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, in a short interview with the Dailymirror during her visit to the country, said her country was in favour of giving the GSP plus facility for Sri Lanka to gain better access to markets in the

Dr. Sanath Hettige won the Presidential Award for the best medical invention for 2013 at the presidential awards ceremony held on the.....

Samuel James Veluppillai (SJV) Chelvanayakam was born on March 31, 1898 in Ipoh, Malaya. He passed away on....

A former director of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation Allama Sir Mohamed Iqbal was one of the finest thinkers of modern....

Dr. Kannangara, the father of free education in Sri Lanka, a visionary and a patriot, was elected to the State Council in 1923, 1931 and 1936. He served....

The Northern Provincial Council led by Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran has again opened a Pandora’s Box by adopting a resolution....

While that religious aspect is not forgotten, Christmas means getting through a somewhat hazy midnight mass because the cheer had....

From 80,000 deaths recorded between 1934-1935, which was the most devastating outbreak of malaria the country has experienced, to....

It was to the , the celebrated film-director, television producer, accomplished cameraman, efficacious public administrator and the mentor to many,  Dr. D.B. Nihalsingha....

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has called for creating a liberal culture in our universities. A noble goal, indeed.  Still better if he advocates a.....

Over the past 40 years, the gap between the poor and the rich has grown to monstrous or mountainous levels with the social.....

President Barack Obama has observed, “ISIL [Islamic State] is a direct outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq that grew