Despite having as many as 21 female MPs in Parliament, the incumbent government has come under scrutiny for not condemning insults directed at fellow Parliamentarians in the House.

Sri Lanka lost a total of nine elephants during the first two months of 2025 as a result of elephant-train collisions. These statistics were issued to this paper by the Department of Wildlife Conservation. But records indicate that over 60 elephants

More than two decades ago, we were kicking around ideas on what would be the most attractive e-government (e-gov) services we could introduce through the new World Bank funded e-Sri Lanka Programme. Someone suggested paying taxes electronically, but

The controversy sparked by Asoka Handagama’s biopic ‘Rani’, about the lives of Richard De Zoysa and his mother Dr. Manorani Saravanamuttu, is so one-sided that I feel duty-bound to make the following comments. I hate getting embroiled in contro

In February, seven elephants succumbed to injuries after colliding with the Meenagaya train. On March 3, another elephant succumbed to injuries as a result of a collision with a train in Manampitiya.

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has strongly criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for what he perceives as selective and biased scrutiny of Sri Lanka’s human rights record.

Never in the Sri Lankan history had a government faced such a plethora of hot issues, at once, at its beginning, as faced by the current national People’s Power (NPP) government. Similarly, never in the history had a government really wanted a “s

Sri Lanka, known earlier as Ceylon, has produced many journalists of a high calibre in the past. These excellent scribes writing for Sinhala, Tamil or English newspapers acquired a large readership and made their mark over the years. Some were bi-lin

The move to wind up USAID is a reflection of US President Donald Trump’s disdain for social welfare across the world and also the use of soft power as an instrument of foreign policy.

Corruption has permeated all levels of Lankan society. Corrupt practice rules from top political leaders to the lowly peons in government departments.

We forget very easily. Even the terrors and travails of the recent pandemic are being forgotten.

I was excited to join the Sri Lankan NGO delegation representing Women’s Action Network (WAN) at the 9th periodic Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) review.

While Foreign Affairs Minister Vijitha Herath was in Geneva delivering his speech at the 58th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday,

On 22 September 2024, Anura Kumara Dissanayake leader of the National People’s Power was elected President of our country.

When I was in my mid-teens, my brothers and I were afforded several trips to our dad’s tea estate in Bandarawela. One way of nurturing our need for boyish pranks was to pull at the sarongs that some of the estate workers wore; and lo and behold, mo

It may not be an exaggeration to say that national security has become the most politicised topic in Sri Lanka these days. In parliament and political platforms, much precious time is spent on the critique of and in defence of the government’s nati

Sri Lanka has always tried to showcase its rich culture for possessing elephants. From the elephants in the wild to the jumbos in domesticated set-ups, what Sri Lankans have tried to do over the years is associate this animal and the islander with pr

When the thirty year ethnic conflict ended in 2009, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa had ample opportunities to address the grievances of the Tamil minority.

The month of February 2025 has been most eventful. One of the most anticipated events was the first budget to be proposed by our first-ever leftist government not in coalition with other political parties. With its overwhelming majority in parliament

Last week, underworld kingpin Sanjeewa Kumara Samararathne, alias ‘Ganemulla Sanjeewa’, was shot dead inside the Colombo magistrate court by a gunman disguised as a lawyer. The killing, as shocking as it was, also highlighted major security lapse

The institution of criminal proceedings is of vital concern to the public. Irrespective of the outcome of proceedings,

When I started my career in Paediatrics nearly 25 years ago as a Trainee at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, I learned gradually, one by one, the great professionals who developed the field of Paediatrics in this country.

In a significant shift, the JVP has abandoned its ideological rigidities and embraced a more pragmatic approach, acknowledging the complexities of the country’s current politico-economic realities.

Exactly a month ago, on January 28 we editorially discussed some aspects pertaining to the ongoing crimes in the country while pointing out that minimising crimes should be one of the top most priorities of the government’s “Clean Sri Lanka” pr

Three days after the so-called shocking murder in the courtroom at the Colombo Magistrate’s Court, the alleged killer has been taken into custody, the man behind the killing identified but the female suspect linked to the killing still roams free.

The killing of Ganemulle Sanjeewa, who is described as an underworld leader at a courtroom of the country’s main Hulftsdorp court complex on Wednesday was not the first of its kind. The officer in charge of the Weerangula police station and his un

Notorious drug trafficker and criminal gang leader Sanjeewa Kumara Samararathne known as ‘Ganemulla Sanjeewa,’ was shot dead in the No. 5 Magistrate’s Court within the Hulftsdorp Court Complex this week. The suspected assassin was arrested in t

Donald Trump was right: Ukraine started the war. Again, Trump was right; if he had been in office, the Ukraine war would not have happened.

The present government has been tested to the brim these days. The Hulftsdorp Court shooting posed enough questions about security in this country.

Sri Lanka’s banking sector faces a paradox: despite ample liquidity, with banks’ liquid assets nearly doubling to 35.25% of total assets, credit growth remains stagnant due to high levels of non-performing loans (NPLs).