The bizarre line-up of political parties in the Present Parliament has raised many questions that could not be answered by any text book on politics. 

?Conflicts and negotiations between employee and employer are not new. In these negotiations some consensus is often achieved regarding benefits for the employees, who are represented by  trade unions with employers represented by their organiza

Plantation Minister Lakshman Kiriella, in an interview with the Daily Mirror....

The 19th Amendment is a much discussed and debated topic currently,

This constitution requires amendment.  No question about it.

?The following is a statement released by the Prime Minister’s office on the report of Board of Inquiry headed by senior lawyer J. C. Weliamuna regarding the alleged mismanagement of the SriLankan Airlines. 

“Artistes for Democracy” held their first post-election press conference at Solis Hall, Beddegana, on Tuesday. The threat of state-sponsored goon violence which marked their pre-election gathering at the same venue was happily absent.

?Last Thursday, the Court of Appeal dismissed a writ petition filed by northern fishermen’s leaders from Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Mannar. The petition sought the court’s relief given the the government’s continuing failure to prosecu

T?he revelations made by the Board of Inquiry (BOI) appointed on the national carrier SriLankan airlines are startling. The BOI said they found “gross abuse of power” by the then Chairman Nishantha Wickramasinghe, who happened to be the b

Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Tilak Karunarathne in an interview with the Dailymirror asserts that he intends on creating investor confidence in the capital markets. 

There is a draft Higher Education Bill prepared by the stakeholders of universities which has now been submitted to...

The world is in a constant state of change and economies are growing faster than ever.

We witnessed yet another student protest in Colombo last week that led to a clash with the Police guarding...

In a vital week of what is evolving as a new era in Sri Lanka’s history,...

The victim-activated vicious killer hidden under the ground which is called the Anti-personnel landmine or...

Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said the 19th Amendment to the Constitution is riddled with confusions,...

This subject came on stage when Mr. Mano Ganeshan sought approval from the National Executive Committee...

American Middle East interventionists chide President Barack Obama for not doing more.

In the afterglow of a Holy Week which testifies to the everlasting truth that love,...

When the Gaza Strip was being pounded and thousands of innocent civilians including hundreds of children...

As a new Sri Lanka evolves with multi-party, multi-religious and multi-ethnic unity on an unprecedented...

Civil society forces teamed up to bring about a striking change in  the country’s politics Ven. Maduluwawe

As President Maitripala Sirisena remarked to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that no problem lay with the Chinese...

Though April jokingly begins with the feast of all fools, April 2015 may turn out to be one of the most important months in the history of independent Sri Lanka.

Media recently reported that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to be gifted with the Peacock Mansion belonging to A.S.P. Liyanage who contested unsuccessfully at the recent presidential election. The excerpts from an interview with Liyanage

Happenings around are unenviable: zany events unfold in rapid succession; voters are bewildered, skeptical, disoriented. Worse- democracy is not standing tall, as desired. 

A decade is a long period in a fast moving world. It is particularly long in a country like Sri Lanka that lost nearly three decades for a destructive and destabilizing war.

?For the past four decades after Sri Lanka was forced to swallow wholesale the globalised capitalist market economic policies, nutritionists have been warning that we are poisoning ourselves with every meal. 

Currently, John Ameratunge, a senior Govt. Minister is  much in the news even before the expiry of fifty days of the new regime, and is faced with a no-confidence motion already. In the interview with Daily Mirror, much light is thrown.....

What is going on? First China wants a chunk of Sri Lankan land, now India has proposed to take over Sri Lanka’s seas! The Sri Lankans are familiar with Sri Lanka being the ‘Miracle of Asia’. At this rate, it would be a miracle....