In our prisons there are thousands of remand prisoners languishing in custody for years without being charged or brought to trial within a reasonable time.

In the recent past we have read and heard over the media of many tragic deaths by suicide, of parents committing suicide after taking away the lives of their own little innocent and helpless children.

Former Auditor General Sarath Chandrasiri Mayadunne resigned his post as the JVP National List MP after making a special statement in the House last week.

India’s refusal to take DRS [Decision Review System] on board is just not cricket. Call it adulterated cricket.

Sri Lankans,  since Independence, have paid immensely for their fair share of absurdities – communalism,  divisiveness,  mistrust,  antagonism,   hatred,  lack of mutual love and respect;  affection,...

We are done with elections. We are done with crossovers and the securing of a majority that enables a relatively smoother functioning of the Government.

It should by now be recognized that no society can reach its full potential if whole segments of that society, especially young people, ..

The new government that takes office this week would indeed be refreshingly different from all those gone before.

During the last few weeks the concept of National Government was a topic widely debated. The concept of National Government was embraced by the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

My unambiguous opinion is that Mr. Sampanthan is a gentleman of the old school, one of the finest parliamentarians we have and ranks high among the few such left such as Dinesh Gunawardena.

It was most encouraging to read the message to the nation by the re-elected Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, after a lengthy dialogue with President Sirisena.

Veteran politician and Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) Leader Mavai Senadhirajah  has scoffed at his party colleague and Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran’s call for an international investigation into the allegations of

Sri Lanka went through several developments in infrastructure during the past few years, and many more are yet to come. However, could these continuous constructions pose a threat to Sri Lanka’s natural resources? 

Some people never learn. Or they never grow up. I have been waiting to discover the classic Sinhala thriller since my school days. By now, with my hair turning grey, I should know better.

A recurrent problem with the Sri Lankan politics is that it has continually failed to seize the opportunity even when it was knocking at the door. That failure  dates back to Independence; if the......

“Mine was not a secret vote. And to this date at the age of forty two, I still depend on another person to cast my vote which is supposed to be a private choice,” a voter from.....

Ever increasing complexity of our wider environment challenges empirically minded natural and social scientists to comprehend what is happening around us. The recent advances in climate science......

In yet another historic event for Sri Lanka in this new era of a new political culture beyond party politics, President Maithripala Sirisena who is also the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.....

In a surprise move, 74 British Colonial rulers of the ‘Empire on which the sun never sets,’ granted the privilege of universal suffrage to Ceylon, as it was known then, along with other constitutional reforms in 1931, a good 20 years befo

 “…He was the feared outsider - he was almost left to languish in a set-up monopolized by Tarzie Vittachi and Denzil Peiris. To them Mervyn was the dangerous concealed material that should not be allowed to explode.

It was Charles de Gaulle, France’s Second World War statesman, who said, “Brazil has a great future, and always will.”  Under the benign presidency of the ex-car metal worker, Luis “Lula” Inacio da Silva, the adage

With the legendary Ameradeva’s ‘Rathnadeepa Janmabhumi, Lankadeepa Vijaybhumi’ and the ever-inspiring National Anthem being sung, Sri Lanka yesterday reached a landmark of the new journey, transformation or the people’s silenc

A falacy still remains in the minds of the people,  that the Golden  Perahera Karanduwa or Casket of the Sri Dalada Maligawa  taken in procession during  the Kandy Esala Perahera is kept as security in the Gediige Vihare or Adhana

This is not simple math like finding the value of x in the equation x+2=10. This is much...

President Maithripala Sirisena, in his widely-acclaimed policy statement at the ceremonial opening...

This is history repeating consecutively but with a difference. A month ago we...

Air Vice Marshal Sumangala Dias, Director Logistics spoke on ‘Emerging Aviation...

Just switch on to your radio set in your car and continue to pay attention for a few...

In a policy statement to mark the ceremonial opening of the new Parliament on Tuesday -- more so the ceremonial beginning of a new era and a new political culture -- President Maithripala Sirisena outlined the vision and goals of the first fully fled

The appointment of the Opposition leader remained an unresolved issue even when the eighth Parliament inaugurated its session on Tuesday. The newly-elected Speaker Karu Jayasuriya announced all the appointments, but not the Opposition leader.