Pandemonium reigned on Tuesday in Parliament, when some Opposition members demonstrated...

We still boast of our high literacy rate compared to other Asian nations without realising...

Russia means business in Syria. Within a week of launching airstrikes against rebel positions...

Last Friday October 2 Sri Lanka joined the world in celebrating the International Day...

The recent declaration made by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, in the midst of the government’s on-going campaign to shore up its foreign exchange reserves, that ‘no questions would be asked’ from Sri Lankan

Today is World Sight Day. According to the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), which coordinates this campaign with the World Health Organisation (WHO), this annual day of awareness is held on the second Thursday 

Esmond Wickremesinghe (May 29, 1920-September 29, 1985) is one of the most interesting and significant figures in the two-century-old history of the news media and journalism in South Asia. His engagement with the newspaper world over close to four d

Why is a National Government needed? An average view of the General Public is that a National Government is better than a weak Government formed by a single party which has only a thin majority in Parliament.

Today’s speech is about Japan- Sri Lanka relations post-election 2015 and I’m grateful for Mr. Kumar Nadesan for suggesting me to speak in front of this prestigious club on this topic.

The wounds of the civil war still exist today. In addition to soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the motherland, there were large number of families living in the North and the East that became victims of Asia’s longest civil war.

President Maithripala Sirisena, moving proactively in the afterglow of the international diplomatic successes in New York and Geneva, on Monday launched what he described as a war to alleviate or eradicate poverty.

In order to grow and prosper, information which nourishes the human intellect, is seen as vital as food, air and water to the human being.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar popularly known as Babasaheb was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who inspired the modern Buddhist movement and campaigned against social discrimination against untouchables,...

In “our hands” mean laws and rules are local. We can interpret laws/rules judicially without harming the nation. National interest associated with the reconciliation process is.....

The Animal Welfare Coalition of Sri Lanka on the occasion of the International Animals’ Day which was celebrated on Sunday (04) strongly emphasises the need to pass the Animal Welfare Bill......

In Sri Lanka, almost all the elected representatives invest millions and billions to get elected to Parliament at an election.  It is the common belief that “politics” is the most suitable career if you need.....

The Tamil Nadu leaders seem to be furious after the adoption of the US initiated resolution at the UNHRC sessions a week ago which called on the Sri Lankan Government to create a domestic......

A world governed by religious philosophies and man-made boundaries, is often thought to be the cause why people do not have unity among them. 

In the Buddhist folklore, there was this monkey that a king reared as his trusted companion. The king had full faith in the ape, who accompanied the sovereign anywhere he went.  On one fine......

Reading the article  titled “Child labour in the tea plantations in Sri Lanka” in your issue  of September 30 by  President’s Counsel  Maureen Seneviratne,  my thoughts go back to.....

Recently published reports on the average IQ test scores for countries across the world show that Sri Lanka’ s average score is very low in comparison to many other countries in.....

In an era, when world leaders are implementing eco-friendly policies to save the world from a catastrophe, the international community yesterday marked World Animal Day, which called for......

So Putin on Monday met Obama. They were going to co-operate against the ISIS, the world’s worst problem. President Vladimir Putin says we should not be surprised to see Russian jets working co-operatively -- even coordinating -- with the US on

The famous American cowboy entertainer  Gene Autry in 1931 sang a beautiful song about “That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine”. Later popular singers like Jim Reeves also sang this heartfelt if not heart breaking song with tens of million

What the former president and his loyalists have not explained was the outcome of such...

At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015, world...

I was flagged down by two traffic cops somewhere down South last week for speeding. I was pretty...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has well and truly checkmated the United States...

The well-known American anthropologist Margaret Mead has said children must be taught...

Minister of Women’s and Child Affairs - Chandrani Bandara  has stated that action has been initiated by her Ministry to ensure that incidents of rape and murder of children as the one that took place at Kotadeniyawa will not be repeated