Rather, some individuals are more culpable for the country’s economic miseries than others. Mahinda Rajapaksa and his extended family did more economic damage to the country than the megalomaniac terrorist Velupillai Prabakaran and Rohana Wijeweera

To commemorate the heroes involved in the 1886 struggle, words stronger than anyone could write are engraved on the Monument....

Exactly a year ago, Sri Lanka was in the midst of an economic cum political crisis with an unprecedented foreign exchange slump having....

May Day rallies like in the past, this time too would be heavily politicized. Just the other day there was speculation that the government has initiated moves to ensure district offices countrywide....

The Great Revolt in weeks after the May Day in 2022, characterised by the masses taking over the streets in their millions, led to hopes of setting our country on a progressive path. However, despite....

The details of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) regarding our debt restructuring facility, have finally been made public and the debate in Parliament is ongoing. The persons, who designed the IMF framework at Bretton Woods in

Former President Ranasinghe Premadasa was killed 30 years ago on 1 May 1993 at 12. 45 p.m. along with 17 others in a bomb explosion that also injured 38 more persons at the Grandpass Road – Armour Street Junction in Colombo.

There was a highly tense situation in the country exactly a year ago with hundreds of thousands of people protesting against the Government across the country and especially in a permanent protest site at the Galle Face Green obstructing the main ent

Schoolchildren going without their mid-day meal and the government announcing that there are no funds to pay suppliers, who provide the food, is a matter of concern. Suppliers providing meals to the schools...

Resource-rich, poverty-stricken, and corruption-ridden Sudan is now embroiled in yet another conflict. This time, the country’s military rulers are being challenged by a paramilitary force known as Rapid Support....

Global supply chains, commonly referred to as Global Value Chains (GVCs) are a complex network of interconnected production stages where different parts and components of a single product are produced in multiple countries before it is assembled into

The family is the foundation of society and the country. Therefore, the family needs to grow in love, peace and joy, faith and hope, humility and meekness, faithfulness and self-control. This needs to flavoured by the spirit of forgiveness because we

Two incidents last week defined the abysmal unprofessionalism plaguing Sri Lankan media. The publication of the images of a suicide and the allegations of sexual harassment made....

The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) is up in arms. To emphasize their ‘grievances’ this body, whom ordinary folk would believe to be of intellectual bent, continues delaying the marking...

Listen to any political talk show or a press conference, and you will stumble upon one of the following popular refrains - or all.

Enmity or at least ill feeling seems to be brewing between the current government and the Catholic Church over the investigations into the attacks carried out by a group of terrorists in the name of Islam on the Easter Sunday (April 21) in 2019.

Despite the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021, Sri Lankan economy has been hit by the economic...

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has asked the Sri Lankan Government to repeal laws that criminalize....

The two main opposition parties, SJB and JVP have participated in protests held by families of victims and Catholics over the failure....

The main mode of transport for us - the ordinary citizens of this country - is still either by road or rail. Very important citizens....

Five years have passed since anti-Muslim violence erupted in the Amparai/Ampara Town in February 2018. Soon afterwards, in the first week of March, there was anti-Muslim violence in Digana.

The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is having an outsized impact on the global supply chain, fueling dramatic cost increases, and product shortages and creating catastrophic food shortages around the world.

According to a news item published in the Daily Mirror on Monday, President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to call on all political parties on April 25 to join a National Government to resolve the current problems faced by the country.

The Sri Lankan Government’s plan to export a species of monkey (Toque Macaques) has brought mixed reactions from several quarters in the island nation. What stands at present....

As Sri Lanka marks the fourth anniversary of the Easter Sunday terror attacks today, the Catholic Church will stage this morning a human wall protest from Colombo to Negombo to express the people’s....

One of America’s best-known newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst has said news is something that someone wants suppressed.

Currently, the proposed Counter-Terrorism Bill dominates the headlines. After all, with the aragalaya and the subsequent ousting of the Rajapaksa regime,

One of my younger colleagues at the University of Peradeniya, recently wrote on his Facebook something a female student had told him: “Sir, we only eat one meal a day.” This is not news....

For the past 73 years, we Lankans have at different times permitted different governments to take away our freedom for one reason or the other. We permitted without too much ado, the right of the government...

The term ‘terrorism’ always has a political connotation. It always targets the adversary of the person who uses it. Hence, the adage that “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” makes sense.