?Did Maithripala Sirisena disappoint the 6.2 million voters by letting MR contest under the SLFP tag?  Some call it a great betrayal; while others think it a democratic option or burying the hatchet for mutual survival.

The legendary Greek philosopher Aristotle has enlightened us of the fact that educating the mind without educating the heart is no education. 

Not really. It was Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, ...

The national census in 2012 counted 2,520,573 persons who were over 60 years,...

The United States of America has a “culture of ignorance”.

Launching a national war for the eradication of narcotic drugs and the curbing of liquor...

I had very clear thoughts on this subject. I passionately detested dishonesty and still do...

No wonder the media fraternity was taken by surprise when they heard of the return of the...

As Greece teeters on the brink of economic ruin with a Sunday deadline set by European...

Transnational pharmaceutical corporations which are among the biggest profit-making businesses...

Sujeewa Senasinghe, member of the controversial COPE sub-committee appointed to look into, what many had termed the ‘Bond Scam’ revolving around the bond issue on February 27 spoke to the Dailymirror on aspects of the inquiry an

This quotable quote from the satirical poet John Dryden’s “The portrait of Zimri in “Absalom and Achitophel” seems quite pertinent to the quotidian political hot potato Sri Lanka is passing through in her gravest period of rec

With the vision of restoring the dignity and the power of the once August Supreme Legislative Assembly of Parliament, election monitoring and civic action groups have collected one million signatures asking that political parties and people should ch

The Sri Dalada Maligawa is a place of utmost importance to Buddhists and the Diyawadana Nilame ...

The Friday Forum is represented by an informal group of concerned citizens pledged...

It was shocking to read of a senior politician, who should know better,..

In recent decades, most Sri Lankans have not only been living beyond...

Taking on the mantle of UNP General Secretary, after Tissa Attanayake;...

Governments come and go but the problems that ordinary citizens face continue to get worse by the day.

Parliament consists of elected representatives who have been given a mandate...

Confusion reigns over the political atmosphere these days with political parties doing...

Now that the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has decided to grant nomination to ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa to contest the forthcoming general elections, a sense of gloom has dawned on......

A society can be judged by how best it treats its least fortunate, the ones who always seem to get the bitter end of every circumstance. Today I was profoundly affected by something and it made me put into......

The attempts to field ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa as a Prime Ministerial candidate to contest the upcoming Parliamentary elections by a vocal fringe of the southern political community is similar to the......

With the nominations week beginning today for the General Elections on August 17, political turmoil and uncertainty have gripped the country with various parties or groups expressing concern over whether we.....

Professor Sarath Wijesooriya of the University of Colombo in an interview with the Dailymirror....

Sri Lanka’s system of education is facing the challenge of making education...

Today July 4 is not only American Independence Day. 

The more one studies the canker that is ISIS, the more one is certain that the group...

Some 40 years after powerful transnational drug corporations killed the essential medicines...