Implementation of Article 11 (Pictorial Health Warnings on tobacco products) (PHWs) of the Framework Convention on Tobacco....

Our political history since Independence had been studded with numerous events such as communal riots, two insurgencies, a prolonged ethnic.....

All seem to agree today that education imparted in most schools in Sri Lanka seem to be lacking what is important and need.....

It has been a long time since we last heard from the Opposition, I mean the TNA-led main Opposition. Even when there are occasional isolated....

So many things have been said and written about the present controversy over security provided to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa since the first....

Agriculture has been an important part if not the heart of Sri Lanka’s culture and civilization since ancient times

The ‘glory men’ are at the cleaners.All is not lost. There are a few in every political party,

The red-carpet welcome accorded to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Beijing on his just-concluded

“In wars, people, the media and politicians refer to ‘war heroes’.   The thirty-year war against LTTE terrorism

When Mahinda Rajapaksa defeated Sarath Fonseka in 2010, a senior member of the UNP, responding to claims by a set of fellow UNP...

Next week’s National New Year – when people of all races and religions come together for a multitude of cultural events centred on the festival of the Sun...

The number of diabetes patients has quadrupled since 1980 making diabetes one of the four main non-communicable diseases to affect people the world over, said Dr. Jacob Kumaresan...

Most politicians and the politically connected elite have no conscience and we can say this with...

To mark World Health Day yesterday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for global...

William Shakespeare said: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness...

The People’s Liberation Front, the party commonly known as the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)...

According to Mr. Godage, the President has banned all agrochemicals.  President Maithripala Sirisena 

The above statement was made at the grand event held at the BMICH to launch the biography of C P de Silva,

Ahead   of the Sinhala and Hindu New Year, another week of parliamentary sessions   would conclude

It is a universal truth that the world’s best entertainers,  the truest artistes,  the most passionate performers

Most of the people today appear to be caught up knowingly or unknowingly, in a world system that is essentially

our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”-Confucius April 5 marks the 

The Apeksha Hospital, also known as the Maharagama Cancer Hospital  is badly in need of a PET CT scanner. So far only one private hospital has the facilities necessary to do PET scans. One scan costs around Rs.150,000 and during the course of tr

It has been some years since I wrote a column for a mainstream newspaper.  Looking back on it, I gave up writing for a combination of reasons, which oscillated from being bored and tired of saying the same thing to focusing on more practical act

Sri Lanka appears to be facing a major kidney problem -- not only physically but also morally and legally. On the physical side there is a kidney disease epidemic mainly in the North Central Province where tens of thousands of farmer families have be

Currently the issue in connection with power failures and black outs, the pointing of fingers at various quarters and institutions are continuing. It has now become a widely-talked subject at the COPE too. Expressing his opinion, JVP parliamentarian

During an interview with the Minister of Megapolis and Western Province Patalie Champika Ranawaka on the issues that surfaced with the power outages that affected the entire country, he categorically stated that this was the work of a Mafia &nbs

The Norochcholai coal power plant, which was acknowledged as the country’s largest profitable entity, was beset with many faults and....

In 2010 Indika Batuwanthudwa, an accountant by profession, was hit by a massive stroke which paralysed him. Doctors said that he would......

A rumour has spread like wildfire; initially travelling through the bustling streets of Colombo and eventually reaching the ears of the whole nation....