?Market driven societies are prone to atomization. This is understandable. Given the fact that life chances of individuals are increasingly dependent on contractual relationships, ...

?Edward Gough Whitlam’s Labour Government in Australia was elected in 1972 with a tiny majority.  As in the case of other Westminster Model Parliaments,  in Australia too a government is formed by the party enjoying the confidence&nbs

We have been warned that anyone who abuses a child should be thrown into the deepest ocean with a millstone tied around his or her neck. The legendary Nelson Mandela has told us that there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than th

The leader of the newly formed Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) Mano Ganesan in an interview with....

The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP), one of the few organizations not influenced...

It would bring us golden memories and oceans of tears when we hear beautiful songs such as Nina...

Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris,...

Former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake’s son Shaveen Bandaranayake Kariyawasam recently...

Now, that the UNP is in the government, it is easy to forget the existential problems the Green Party had barely few months ago. During those not so distant days, the UNP.....

Any concerned person would have been aghast to hear the order by the health authorities to evacuate the patients from the not so old seven-storey Negombo General Hospital building over concerns.....

My colleague Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena has posed some questions regarding the appointment  of the Central Bank Governor. I hope to present to the House a detailed answer to these questions.

?Sri Lanka’s current debate on electoral reforms has highlighted a demand for greater equality in gender representation through a quota for women representatives in Parliament.

Last Friday, World Environment Day, the  focused on the dramatic theme “Seven billion dreams: One planet, consume with care” and pointed out that while substantial environmental impacts from food occurred in the production phase&mdas

?The following is the Memorandum submitted to the Official Languages Commission by L.H. Mettananda, late Principal of Ananda College, Colombo in 1952. There are three possible aims of English Education: 

?With the draft of the 20th amendment to be submitted in Parliament soon, it was revealed that Sri Lanka was ranked the lowest in South Asia with less than 6 percent of women representatives in Parliament.

?The Russian European dreamers have included Pushkin, Lenin, Gorbachev and, until relatively recently, President Vladimir Putin. They have all seen their country’s future as part of the “European House”. But history and events have

Yesterday was World Environment Day and in its afterglow or aftermath – depending on what our attitudes and actions are collectively or individually – we could reflect today on the vital issue of fuel usage which is connected not only wit

The UNP suffers from an inferiority complex of recent origin: a possible backlash after successive defeats...

We tend to believe that people in developed nations do not discriminate against minorities...

Minister of Health Rajitha Senarathna was interviewed recently regarding the present...

More than ever before in history, World Environment Day today needs to sound alarm signals...

After much wrangling, the United National Party (UNP), the dominant party of the government announced this week...

Harindra Dunuwille, former State Minister of constitutional and state affairs and Mayor of Kandy was appointed...

In democratic systems of government worldwide there are two distinct approaches...

June is likely to be a crucial month for Sri Lanka and the new Yahapalanaya Government...

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian and well-known Constitutional lawyer M. A. Sumanthiran....

The 30-year Treasury bond auction opened on February 27 to raise Rs.1 billion saw the new Central Bank governor...

The contents of this article focus mainly on the Politicization of Manpower in the public service...

The Government took more than the 100 days it allotted for itself to get the 19th Amendment passed. 

Abdulla Hameed, the Ambassador at Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Maldives, recently shared his views on the current political situation in his country. Violence raged in the archipelago during the May......