The shocking pictures published in Friday’s newspapers of police assaulting HNDA students at Ward Place, Colombo 7 pose the question whether the police or some of its personnel are suffering from an unquenchable thirst for blood.

By A child’s world is innocent and full of colour and imagination. They live in a world of their own, curious to learn new things, and fascinated by colourful objects and experimenting with what they get.

The tourism industry in Sri Lanka has always been up and running although it has taken a few twists and turns with changing of governments. With the good.....

A serious, well-coordinated action plan for national reconciliation is long overdue. The war and its aftermath made such a plan imperative, in order to build bridges across long standing ethno-linguistic divisions.....

Like its predecessor, the new government excels at keeping the public enthralled. The Rajapaksa regime’s recipe was hard.......

Sri Lanka yesterday began November on a healthy note with the long delayed imposition of a blanket ban on the import, sale or use here of the herbicide Glyphosate which, according to.....

On 28 September 1988,  quite out of the blues news trickled through of an attempted coup on the Maldive Islands. Sri Lankans were more shocked when it was learned that the coup leaders -Maldivians led by Abdullah Luthufi-...

?A new Ministry MUST be established under the Prime Minister himself since the government has placed economic development as its main platform, we need to seek the support of the world to achieve this objective.

?Albert Einstein once said that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”. That’s how it seems to be with President Obama sending his Secretary of State, John Kerry, to attempt to resurr

During the previous regime, the Police to a large extent lost their independence and many people saw Police Stations as branch offices of the ruling party if not torture houses.

 While watching Ranjith Wijenayake’s production of Mother Courage and Her Children at the Punchi Theatre last Wednesday, you could easily visualise a cloud-based stage of epic proportions gliding down gently to cover a yawning abyss

Many UNP leaders argue that it was former President Mahinda Rajapaksa who paved the way...

In three weeks from now, November 23rd to be precise, the Philippines will commemorate...

Why is the crisis in Kashmir not on the BBC, CNN, al-Jazeera or other international...

With a make-or-break world climate change summit scheduled for December, the United Nations...

Murders became an uncertain encounter in the lives of the women folk living in Kotakethana, a remote village in the Ratnapura district, ever since July 2008. The years that followed were quite dark and many women were victims of brutal murders.

The local authorities’ election, tipped to be conducted in March next year, would hold political relevance to the two main parties in repositioning themselves and charting their future political course. Currently, both the United National Party

Surveying the events of the last ten days, it seems to me that the need of the hour is to penetrate the fog of misinformation and fantasy with regard to the consequences of the Geneva Resolution and to make a realistic appraisal of the situation.

On October 30, 1990 the entire Muslim population of close to 75,000 people living in the North were evicted by the LTTE. It is now 25 years since the Muslim community fled the North fearing for their lives and leaving behind their homes, livelihoo

In our editorial last Thursday, the  appealed to the government to take urgent and effective measures to restore public confidence in the Rule of Law using even novel, creative and imaginative ways available through the marvels of modern technol

Change: A word that has reverberated around society since the beginning of this year. Not many were sure what exactly this “change” encompassed nor what exactly was supposed..

It is strange for those of us who were appalled and helpless, at the total breakdown of law and order during the previous regime, to read the utter drivel issued in press statements by a son of a former VVIP. 

“Now, all the duties of rulers are contained in this one sentence, the safety of the people is the supreme law.”- Thomas Hobbes (‘Man and Citizen’) Who should be “accountable” and primarily to whom, ...

Of ‘policing’ since 1780 influenced by its development by the London Metropolitan Police—with only a year remaining for the 150th anniversary of the Force constituted in 1866:now complete with a Police Commission in 2015.

The ill-fated mishap which drove young Sasanka Jagath Alwis, a vibrant student of Royal College to a permanent vegetative state with lasting brain injuries is perhaps a mere memory dating back to two years in many a mind. 

In an interesting interview to the US TV network CNN, Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister has apologized for his role in the Iraqi war and has admitted he could be partly to blame for the rise of the Islamic State terror group. 

Thai Theravada scholars Dr. Mettanando Bhikkhu and Ajahn  Sujato believe the “Garudhammas”,  the eight rules that restrict, rather constraint  Buddhist nuns [Bikkhunis], including the rule that is.....

The following are excerpts from the keynote address delivered by Minister of Justice and Minister of Buddha Sasana Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, President’s Counsel, at the Faculty.....

There cannot be any doubt about the fact that the  development challenge facing Sri Lanka  today is enormous. Any serious economist knows that the macro-economic fundamentals of the.....

In the past, respective governments appointed different commissions to look into -- a crisis in the policing system in 1945; even worse problems in 1970; graver problems owing to severe......