Despite an increasing need for animal welfare, and more commitment worldwide to the cause, resources devoted to it are still only a fraction of what goes into other humanitarian.....

Our Parliament is a unicameral 225 member legislature elected by universal suffrage and proportional representation. 196 members are elected on the basis of proportional representation.......

Over a month has passed since the date on which President Maithripala Sirisena was scheduled to dissolve Parliament according to his 100-Day Programme presented to the people at the January.....

What serves the long term peace and security in Sri Lanka: high-handed national security state of the former regime or more nuanced judicial approach of.....

Many people hoped that the  change of regime at the beginning of this year would provide a sense of direction for the country. Given the wide-ranging challenges that the people.....

The unexpected death of Wasim Thajudeen, Havelock Sports Club Rugby player and Vice Captain of the Sri Lanka Rugby team on May 17, 2012 stirred a lot of doubts and concerns over the......

Sri Lanka joins the world today in marking the World Milk Day coordinated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The month of June is also celebrated as the month of brides......

?Wednesday, May 13 was a dark day for the people of Jaffna and for all Sri Lankans. Sivaloganathan Vidhya, an 18-year-old student of Maththiya Maha Vithyalayam in Pungudutheevu never returned home from school....

?Deputy Minister of Investment Promotion Eran Wickramaratne said that the government would look for the simplification of tax structure as part of its efforts for creating an investment-friendly environment in the country. 

?As long as Jeb Bush stays in the race to be the next president of the US the issue of the Iraq war will not go away. The fact that Iraq is descending into further chaos and that he is the...

Nobody would expect a dance to be performed by a semi nude woman or a group of such women at a religious ceremony held at a temple or a church or a mosque.

China has read the Riot Act. The warning, as forthright as forthright could be, is aimed not only at regional...

Two allegations of a serious nature have rocked the boat of the new government which came into...

In an interview, Arjuna Ranatunge, the Minster of Ports and Shipping, spoke about the division...

Four Ministers- Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, State Minister for Public Administration...

?Sivaloganathan Vithya, an 18-year-old schoolgirl was gang raped and murdered brutally by nine men in Punguduthivu on May 13, 2015.  Immediately, Vithya’s case brought crowds out on the streets in many parts of the North.

With the enactment of the landmark 19th Amendment—though it was heavily diluted to accommodate a reluctant opposition—parliamentary democracy has been restored to a large degree.

In an interview with the Dailymirror Wasantha Samarasinghe,..

When Vasudeva sees Ranil Wickremesinghe,...

Amid an ongoing controversy in Sri Lanka over insider trading in Treasury bonds,...

 Dilith Jayaweera, Managing Director of Triad Advertising, and an individual who has been at the centre of controversy during the past decade or so from time to time, spoke to the Dailymirror on many issues relating to him and his relationship w

?Some of the most influential members of the former regime are now behind bars over allegations of bribery and corruption. Former Economic Development Minister  Basil Rajapaksa was re-remanded last week. 

In Dambadeniya yesterday, a desperate young father carrying his five-year-old child and a bottle of petrol protested on a tree requesting the Government to bring his wife back from Saudi Arabia, where she had been working as a domestic for the past t

The  discussed current political situation in the country with the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) Chief Prof. Tissa Vitharana. Excerpts.....

President Maithripala Sirisena recently said the policy of the new Government was both reconciliation among communities and development of.....

One of the charges levelled against the former government was the politicisation of the police department. This social cancer was so malignant that critics described police stations.....

Daniel Carmon, Israel’s Ambassador to India and Sri Lanka in an interview with the Dailymirror spoke...

Both the West and Russia have a responsibility to make sure they don’t throw...

Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa sometime back was toying with the idea of allowing...

On Wednesday, a tense situation prevailed at the Jaffna Court premises when some protestors stoned...