Over the weekend of September 25 - 27, the United Nations headquarters in New York hosted the Sustainable Development Summit 2015. It was a high-level segment of the 70th UN General Assembly that was attended by

Dailymirror met Sri Lanka’s Communist Party General Secretary and ex-minister DEW Gunasekara to discuss the country’s political and economic situation

To make space for others is one of the noble principles in the vision of deep unity in diversity where we not only protect and promote diversity but also celebrate it. Thankfully this is also a part of the foundation of the new National Government,&n

Srimathi Chithrangani Wijeweera, wife of political revolutionary and founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Rohana Wijeweera,...

The events of the last week demonstrate, with poignant clarity, the folly of naïve expectation and the need for realistic thinking.

Children employed in the tea plantations in Sri Lanka fall into a special category of plantation labour due to certain factors, peculiar only to tea plantations. 

The Mahinda Rajapaksa regime was subject to serious allegations, while slashing attacks were levelled by the media, the politicians, and the civil society organizations against the rule by a single family. 

Two interesting discussions are going on in the media following the brutal killing of five-year-old Seya Sadewmini of Kotadeniyawa, ...

 It’s a mere change of venue - instead of Geneva or New York; the US-Sri Lanka joint resolution shifts the backdrop to Colombo to cast a false sense of domestication. Circus moves......

We can ignore the growing environmental crisis only at our own peril. At the root of the global and local environmental crisis is the cycle of over-production and over.......

Many issues that contributed to our gory human rights record stemmed from barefaced denials by the successive governments and subordinate authorities of alleged incidents of abuses and...

After much intrigue, which naturally made for speculation that ranged from intelligent to insane, finally the Government has produced a cogent and clear articulation of position with respect to......

?The Kelani River bears the living testimonial for the most polluted river in Sri Lanka while being recorded as the second largest river in the country. It is 145km long has a river basin of 2,292 sq. km. 

The death occurred of  Prof. Senaka Bibile on September 29, 1977, at Gyana under mysterious circumstances. It is a well known ‘secret’ that Bibile, the architect of World Health Organisation endorsed Medicinal Drugs Formula/policy...

When Shakespeare wrote in Macbeth, “memory, the warder of the brain”, he poses two paradoxes inherent in the meaning of the word, “warder”. According to the Oxford English Dictionary warder means a guard in a prison.

Adding one’s imaginations, fantasies and inspirations on to a canvas just makes an artist an extraordinary person. The works of Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci and Rafael have been admired over the centuries and they were instrumental in bringing ab

Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka......

The Board and Management of Cyril Rodrigo Restaurants Limited (Owners of Green Cabin) has issued a statement clarifying its position in relation to the alleged rape of an......

The Parliament of Singapore some time ago passed a bill to abolish the Parliamentary Pensions Act after a review of ministerial salaries, which recommended that the pension scheme be scrapped for office......

In the afterglow of Binara Poya, we need to reflect on the Buddha Dhamma’s main theme “May all beings be happy” and on some practical issues connected to it.   At a time when......

It is indeed tragic that despite the corrosive and devastating social effects of illicit drugs, successive administrations have not had the required political resolve and the firm commitment (with all the solemn pledges and hard resolutions made)....

The Pope has caused waves in America during his visit this week. Invited to speak before Congress by the House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, he arrived right at the time the Republican presidential candidates are touting ideas that are ana

We are living in an era where time-tested centuries’ old cultural values and traditions need to be interwoven with the marvels of modern technology and the concepts of a global village.

Anagarika Dharmapala, the Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and writer who brought forth a revolution in a land that has long been plagued by Western colonization and repression of Indian religions is better acknowledged as the ‘Father of the nati

You had been a fire-brand in the front line of politics for the past two decades; your dreams may have come true, but not ours. You got a big mess to clear up. The crucial sector that you are now.......

Young SWRD, on his return from Oxford, England in 1925, professed the case for a federal structure for Sri Lanka, and made it the main slogan when he formed a political party named, the......

Psychological well-being has become an important aspect in the lives of people today. Yet, in terms of places that provide psychological treatment and other services......

A consensus is gradually being built in the country that the allegations of human rights violations committed by the combatants during the final stage of the war between the security forces.......

The new national government, headed by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday reached another landmark in its journey towards building a new Sri Lanka......

There’s a lot between-the-lines of the UNHRC Report on Sri Lanka, interestingly titled ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’.  Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has correctly pointed out tha