When the American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright invented and built the world’s first successful aircraft and made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human.....

The Committee on Public Enterprises, popularly known as the COPE has taken a centre stage in reporting cases of corruption and malpractices at the institutional level. However over the years it has been......

In the aftermath of the collapse of  the former Soviet Union in 1979, and the emergence of the United States as the most powerful military power in known human history, people worldwide dreamt that.....

The speaker of these words was not former president Mahinda Rajapaksa or anyone in his government, but British Prime Minister David Cameron, expressing solidarity with French President Francois Hollande in the wake of the recent terror attacks in Par

Sri Lanka’s foreign policy was misaligned with the economic policy in the recent past. the country lost the qualification to be a beneficiary of the ‘GSP Plus’      facility due to short sighted foreign policy.

?A proponent of  the legalized sex trade argued, “You will find incidents of ‘raping’ reduced by an alarming rate, if the ‘way is cleared.” A meretrix is a licensed/registered professional sex worker who is und

Among foreign cultural missions in Sri Lanka the Goethe Institute of Colombo is undoubtedly the most active and imaginative. Its ‘Poets Translating Poets’ project currently under way is both eclectic and exciting...

Every human, when he/she was born, came with a strong, firm and unerasable message: That is death. One day or the other; death is most certain to embrace all of us. 

After delays and dilly-dallying for more than 13 years, the Cabinet this week approved a draft Right to Information Bill and put it for public dialogue and debate before it is presented in Parliament.

The former Commissioner of the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, Dr. Prathiba Mahanamahewa...

As citizens of Sri Lanka we know only two facts about the ‘Nameless Dying Woman’ in Saudi Arabia...

After May 2009 a youth from the Tamil Community has taken his life for a ‘cause,’ according...

COP21, or the United Nations Climate Change Conference, just started in Paris on November 30...

Tens of thousands of people, specially poor patients, were forced to suffer more by a 24-hour token...

A well-known South African scholar has made the perceptive comment that “It may be more damaging to establish a fundamentally flawed Truth Commission than to pursue an alternative strategy” (Paul van Zyl, Dilemmas of Transitional Justi

The theme for this year’s International Day of dis-Abled Persons is: “Inclusion matters: Access and emPowerment of People of all Abilities”. The right to enjoy access is also the single right on which enjoying several other rights

With the approval of the President’s Cabinet Paper, it has been decided to adopt an entirely new Constitution, not to tinker any more with the 1978 Constitution as we have been doing so far through 19 Amendments.

If the original proposals were altered in conformity with the demands made from within and outside the government, it would be a new phenomenon experienced by the National Unity Government.   

Sri Lanka joins the world community today in marking the International Day of People with Disabilities, with the theme being ‘Inclusion matters: Access and empowerment for people of all abilities.’ 

Death is painful and unpleasant. Animals or human beings want to live at least one minute more at the death which is common to all. Life is pleasant and enjoyable during the lifetime. 

The much-awaited inaugural budget of the good governance regime was presented last week. While the debates on it are currently under way, the Dailymirror spoke to the Deputy Minister of Public Enterprise Development,

Sri Lankan Freedom Party MP,Vidura Wickramanayake who is not afraid to criticise political leadership, even within his own party, explained why he cannot agree with this budget and why he did not accept...

State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene speaking at the recently concluded International Maritime Conference, 

In what may look like an apparent battle against university academics who are bestowed with the responsibility of educating the future generation,...

About 150 world leaders and their high-level delegations are meeting in Paris for a 11–day climate change summit which most environmental analysts believe is a make-or-break conference 

Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister Faizer Mustapha PC, had a chat with the Daily Mirror Excerpts of the interview.....

The late Bhikkhu Maduluwawe Sobitha possibly was the most spoken about person ever since he fell ill, the non-return Singapore medical pursuit, the demise, the State funeral, and the post funeral debate in.....

For those who are not involved in the field, climate change in relation to Sri Lanka may not sound as much a pressing issue as compared to floating armouries and political changes within the.....

We are the guinea pig generation! Carried the insignia on the back of the executive through pride and shame. Power shifts to the legislature and an assassin take shots at it? Legislature.....

The vehicle she had been driving had crashed onto a barrier at a check point at the entrance of the road leading to the parliamentary complex.Although the vehicle was  damaged she......