On the first Medin Full Moon Poya day after the Enlightenment and seven years after the “Abhiniskramanaya” or leaving the royal palace.....

On the morning of 22nd March 1952, the first Prime Minster of Independent Ceylon, Don Stephen Senanayake went riding a police horse, Chithra on.....

The message that the Buddha had arrived spread in a few minutes all over in Kapilawattu like a whirl-wind, creating an  environment in and.....

A young couple visiting Independence Square were chased away by a security guard recently. This is routine procedure at this venue, but.....

With two-thirds of the earth’s surface covered by water and the human body itself consisting of 75 per cent water, this is watertight proof that water is one....

In Sri Lanka, there had been two insurgencies in the South, led by the JVP. And a war too that lasted 30 years....

The above news item appeared in the Daily Mirror on February 28, 2016. According to the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) Chairman, the driving....

If you care to ask around it becomes evident that satellite TV providers in Sri Lanka are playing foul by its customers. With a multitude of shortcomings in.....

From the ancient times, India and Sri Lanka have held bilateral ties, culturally, socially and politically, and have astonished the world with their rich culture.....

The  academics at the University of Kelaniya have reportedly suspended  teaching activities in protest against on-going ragging at the.....

In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly declared March 21 as World Down Syndrome Day and invited member States to observe World Down.....

I think it would be useful if I were to give this House the definition of “enforced disappearances” as accepted by the United Nations.

We were never the best of mates in College as Primal was two years my senior and though we were well acquainted by virtue of being hostellers...

President Sirisena should  be thanked and congratulated for the stand he has bravely, yes, bravely  taken to ban Chemical fertilizers...

Stopping the waste of electricity and fresh water while reducing carbon dioxide emissions are some of the ways in which Sri Lanka’s citizens could cooperate in the make or break...

The Deep State is an extremely powerful network that controls nearly everything around you. You...

As Sri Lanka joins the international community in marking the World Consumer Rights Day and week...

The trade union leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) K.D.Lal Kantha has been threatening...

  Outside of constitutional reform, the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Government’s ‘reconciliation’ process...

The blackout, the worst in 20 years, caused much consternation to the government as it happened at a time the country was facing many economic headwinds.  The blackout did not spare even President Maitripala Sirisena in the discharge of his duti

India milks cricket as its cash-cow contrived by its selected team of commentators on television that rule the roost by softening the ugly image to give it an appearance of a venerated Nandi Bull in a mock sporting pose - a deserving mascot in this t

Amid warnings of power cuts, the temperature yesterday afternoon reached more than 35 degrees Celsius or 95 degrees Fahrenheit—perhaps the hottest days in our history and direct result of global warming and climate change. Generally, until ther

Stunned.  The word sums up the overall sentiment at the SSC ground on the evening of the 12th day of March, 2016.  It didn’t matter which camp you belonged to, whether Royal or S Thomas’.  If you had been following the game

At a time of the year when people are rushing indoors to avoid the scorching heat, an irregular series of power 

Sri Lanka’s current foreign policy and external alignments are increasingly asymmetrical with the needs of its material base; with its fundamental economic, financial and developmental requirements and interests.

In the aftermath of blackout Sunday, a crisis and a multitude of questions have arisen over vital power supplies 

The ‘sudden’ removal of Lacille de Silva, former Secretary to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into

In a candid interview, newly appointed UPFA General Secretary Mahinda Ameraweera unravels the shortcomings of the former UPGA regime which....

“There are two ways to be fooled; One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true” - Soren Kierkegaard

A majority of public servants and politicians now put their own interests ahead of those citizens they serve.   They resort to corruption and....