It is taken as a fact that Lakshman Kadirgamar -- Foreign Minister from 1994 to 2005 with a three-year break in-between -- was Sri Lanka’s best diplomat who played a major role in getting the LTTE.....

The war against the LTTE ended several years ago when the armed forces of Sri Lanka crushed the Tigers that ran wild and free for almost thirty years. It was a great relief for all Sri Lankans.....

The Deputy Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government Karunarathna Paranawithana in an interview with the  said that the Ministry was keen on introducing a community governance......

Last week saw a curious event of pomp and funfair-and political realism-that highlighted how far the States would go to maximize their benefits, even at the expense of their allies. Britain......

This Government has placed Economic Development as its main platform and we need to seek the support of the world to achieve this objective. The new Government, I presume.....

The National Government says it is giving top priority to human rights issues in the wake of the 2015  Geneva resolution and also on the basis of its conviction that all people—the rich and the.....

In every generation, it is given to but a handful of politicians to become creatures of legend. When posterity judges, it judges harshly, sans any of the ‘accountability’ we so yearn to see in politicians themselves. 

In what was perhaps one of the greatest acts of unity since independence, the leaders of 21 political parties on Wednesday had a friendly two hour dialogue with President Maithripala Sirisena to work out a consensus on the Geneva resolution. 

A quarter of a century has elapsed since the atrocious eviction of Muslims from the Northern...

I was in Trincomalee last weekend along with a media colleague and my wife. We had several...

After nearly five years of violence that has displaced some 12 million people, some real...

She is described as a “fairy Godmother,” a playful and mischievous rebel and the epitome...

On the theme “Strong United Nations. Better World”, the main world body reaches a milestone...

At the end of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent visit to Japan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Mass Media and the Official Government News Portal announced that on 6th Oct the PM addressed the Parliament of Japan,

Among the recent moves to address traffic congestion in Colombo, was the new traffic plan tried out on the Borella-Rajagiriya section, with the six-lane parliament road turned into a ‘one-way’ and the parallel ‘four-lane’ &

A natural disaster is quite a spontaneous event. Although it may come with many signs of danger, people often tend to be excited at the time of such an event and do not respond promptly. 

The restoration of the rule of law, the independence of the judicial and police services and the streamlining of the legal process, broadly defined as the law’s delays, were among the main promises of the new National Government. 

 On the 13th of September 2015, Sri Lanka was rocked with the harrowing tale of the rape and murder of a four-and- a- half year old girl

The Police are the official arm of the State responsible to protect people and property, make people obey the law, find out about and solve crime, and enforce the law against the people who commit crimes. 

The annals of the Catholic Church have been dotted, for centuries, with the names of some illustrious members of its clergy, whose outstanding creativity in the fine arts is hailed even  today.

In what could turn out to be a repeat of the Henry Steel Olcott era for the revival of Buddhist values and virtues, another American is now in Sri Lanka for the launching of the Colombo and Kandy Chapters of the worldwide movement known as the Dharma

Crimes have become just headlines in newspapers today. For one to commit a crime it may take a couple of seconds or a few months. But for a suspect to go behind bars, it would take.....

DS. Senanayake was the most outstanding political leader of post-independent Sri Lanka. This great leader and the.......

It is not clear whether the Tamil remand prisoners languishing for years in various prisons in the country started their hunger strike on October 12 spontaneously calling.....

The government has announced a four-fold increase for education under the budget in 2016. The allocations for education would go up to Rs. 185.9 billion from the Rs. 47.6 billion......

The post 2015 development agenda adopted by the UN this year is presented as a strategy for transforming the world. This is understandable given the fact that the goals that.....

The seventh commemoration of Sri Lanka’s foremost film music composer and pioneer of Sinhala opera Premasiri Khemadasa took place at the Sri Lanka Foundation......

Six valuable years have been lost since the end of the war, as the previous Government undermined efforts to seek the truth about the tragic past, stalled institutional reforms necessary to......

Though most people are unaware of it and others choose to ignore it, world poverty alleviation is a high priority issue because until and unless there is a more equitable distribution of wealth and......

Intelligent Transport System (ITS), an advanced technology developed as software and camera systems is used to analyse the traffic behaviour patterns inside tunnels and on highways.