Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will visit Beijing this week; his first to China  since becoming the Prime Minister. Not only would his....

It was ludicrous for members of the Front-line Socialist Party (FSP) to have clashed with the police on Friday in an attempt to forcibly enter the....

the power crisis, I am reminded of efforts taken earlier when the country faced similar situations some of which were hilarious.

Now that a section of the “SLFP”, who happened to be ‘part and parcel’ of the National Government formed 

With Sri Lanka facing a major financial crisis —largely due to apparently reckless, massive scale borrowings by the former regime— the National Government is holding crucial talks with the International 

In India, Mahathma Gandhi did never contest a seat in the legislature. All what he did had been to dedicatedly serve that the country to gain independence and help the Nation. Gandhi had that aid those 

Although Ranjan Wijeratne’s system of public relations might be construed as confounded exposition by some

Around 60 countries around the world are contaminated by AP landmines. The International Mine Action 

Production and application of knowledge, development of techniques of all forms and the adoption of more efficient organizational forms have helped...

As the week long national dengue prevention week ended yesterday, stinging figures were given by the Epidemiology Unit. 

“Focus on Vintage and Classics”; veteran photojournalist Bandula Alahakoon’s third photographic exhibition of vintage and classic vehicles was held at the Public Library Auditorium

The second chapter of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, says believing in the previous scriptures is...

During the past 40 years the noble values of sports also have been sacrificed to the deity of money...

Exactly 14 months after January 20, last year, the date on which the Right to Information Bill was to...

There’s nothing funny about explosives and explosions. Nothing to salivate about. And yet, we are...

The opening lines of Sybil Wettasinghe’s Kuda Hora or Umbrella Thief, resonating the Kosgama...

The SLAVF is a collective name for the reserve units and the Sri Lanka National Guard of the Sri...

Unannounced power cuts have become the norm of the day rather than the exception now.  Even events attended by

In a major step towards moulding the youth, the next generation, to take over the leadership of the country,

Hambanthota is 500 acres in extent. She said that the park which is located close to the hot wate

Gamini Dissanayake’s birth anniversary fell on March 20. Commenting on the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963 in Dallas, Texas, Marian Wright Edelman, President and Founder of the Children’s Defence Fund stated thus: “So much of

Stories about ragging in universities are again making headlines. Seventeen senior students of the Allied Health Faculty of the University of Peradeniya have been suspended from attending lectures because they are alleged to have ragged freshers. The

There were things that Mahinda Rajapaksa did right, there were things he did wrong and there were things he didn’t do which he should have. Therefore, the electorate decided that it needed a post-Rajapaksa Sri Lanka, building upon the best of R

The Chairman of the Hela Urumaya and Member of Parliament, Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera who played a leading role in toppling the Rajapapksa government is now involved in another revolution-- to create chemical-free food in the country. Amidst rumou

Greed, which has been  obvious in all sections of society in the past few decades has been responsible for the ruin of our nation. Greed for power is even more dangerous, and I fail to comprehend how those who were at the helm of the ship of sta

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been repeating ad nauseam over the last few weeks that the present government has taken USD 6,361 million in foreign loans in its fifteen-month lifespan thus far but hadn’t even built a culvert with that m

The Government’s new budget proposals impact significantly on every segment of society. The implications of these proposals, and their practical effect, are worthy of serious reflection.

In an apparent move to give the people a full and balanced report on vital issues in the country, President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday night made a rare appearance on a television talk show to answer probing questions. The President reiterated th

In a cynical analysis of a recent protest at the Independence Square, Hafeel Farisz dubbed the protesters involved as “coffee shop liberals”. He certainly didn’t mean this as a compliment. He was not referring to the influence that

Although born and bred in the Island of Serendib, ‘Serendipity’ is a word I picked up from the New York ‘left’. It was on an afternoon in Cooper Square, in the famed and fabled East Village in lower Manhattan that I met Ryan.