?There are many text books by Sri Lankan authors for those studying eastern (Indian) music, while students of Western music have a wide choice of mostly Western publications and a very few of local origin. 

Douglas Devananda, the leader of the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) told  Parliament on Thursday during the budget debate that the Northern Provincial Council run by the Tamil National Alliance.....

Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure, Harin Fernando, is a dynamic politician who has embraced the warmth of the good governance regime in all ways possible. However, during the past few weeks......

The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) threw a tantrum when the government proposed to abolish duty free duty vehicle permits granted to certain categories of public....

Many who hoped that the Yaha government would deliver ‘good governance’ must have heaved sighs of relief that the PM was able to defuse a volatile countrywide ‘tools down’ threat challenging......

Comrade Colvin R. de Silva, was elected the President at the inaugural meeting of Lanka Sama Samaja Party on 21st December, 80 years ago. The 28-year old young advocate in his address.....

In an editorial last week, the Daily Mirror exposed some of the subtle ways in which the rich world is continuing to plunder the resources of the poor third world through sophisticated economic.....

?The Republican Party’s debate on Tuesday in Las Vegas looked like nothing but a competition to decide who among the party’s nine presidential hopefuls was the most ruthless of all. 

The passing away of Prof. Manique Gunasekera in Michigan in the USA on Friday 04th December, just four days after her 62nd birthday, came as a horrible shock to those who knew her and loved her.

The role of creative, imaginative musicians and other artistes in reviving Sri Lanka’s historic culture and civilization was underlined by President Maithripala Sirisena when he spoke at the 2015 State Music Awards Festival on Thursday. 

?I have begun to dislike elephants.  My fellow villagers have the same sentiment about the menacing elephants in and around  our village.  I have no doubt you will see the rational of our position in this regard.

The urban population of Sri Lanka has reached, over the past few decades, a staggering 48%...

Many voices are being heard from many quarters on the need to conduct a Sang?yan?...

Inevitably anybody would be reminded of the anti-Muslim propaganda campaign carried...

Sunday, December 20 is International Human Solidarity Day and this year’s celebration comes...

President Maitripala Sirisena had made a special point at last Saturday’s All Party Conference. “Although woman candidates were fielded  in the past, even woman voters were not keen to elect them”, the president had remark

For the past few weeks, Yasara Abeynayake became a much talked about media personality especially among the followers of social media.

 After Ven. Maduluvawe Sobitha Thera, the ‘National Movement for Social Justice’ is not likely to play the role of foremost pressure group or make a significant impact in the present political arena. The prelate understood the root a

“Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant…that place must, at that moment, become the centre of the universe”- Ellie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate.

Tomorrow is International Migrants’ Day and the United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon in a message to mark the event says the world needs to reaffirm its commitment to shape diverse and open societies that provide opportunities and lives

Q What is happening  today in the country? The country is heading in the correct direction. New government completes its first year on January 8 next year. Rainbow revolution is not yet  one year and only four months  for the consensu

The 19th and 20th century politicians were dreamers and philanthropists driven by honest and sincere desire to help the fellow human beings to improve their lot with dedication and genuineness. 

Ariyawansa Ranaweera is a deceptively simple poet. He has an uncanny ability to juxtapose ideas, to take simple imagery from every day life and read a great many things into it. 

“Muwan Palessa”, or “Lama Pitiya Songs”; no one can forget these programmes because Sri Lankans knew them intimately. Sri Lanka Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC) commemorates its 90th anniversary today. 

The economics of politics and the politics of economics being connected nationally and internationally, what we see to a large extent in developing countries such as Sri Lanka today is a subtle form of economic neocolonialism with the air power being

‘Yali Mavena Aparadayak’ is a book authored by Additional Solicitor General (ASG) and President’s Counsel Sarath Jayamanne and is an attempt to fill a void of Sinhala literature on the subject of criminal.....

Would the maiden budget of the government be instrumental in fulfilling promises made to the nation together with assurances of lifting economic burdens shouldered by the people is a question that......

“We need a robust campaign from civil society” said Dr. JayampathyWickramaratne, President Counsel and MP, at the first Constitutional Day of India. The ceremony which was held at the.....

The Bar Association is the most powerful professional body in Sri Lanka established in 1974, amalgamating the traditional Law Society and the Bar Council  creating Attorneys- at -Law in place of Proctors and......

The Canada-Sri Lanka relationship has developed over fifty years involving various sectors - socio-economic, political, trade and government-to-government projects.