As Russian troops continue to battle their way towards Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, naval tensions continue to escalate.....

The 49th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commenced its sessions yesterday in Geneva and it will continue till April 1. If some of the Sri Lankan political and military leaders are not facing any threa

Much talk these days with respect to Ailing State Owned Enterprises SOEs. A new terminology has also been created as State Owned Business Enterprises SOBEs and Strategic State Owned Business Enterprises SSOBEs. The state has a long

Northern Province Governor Jeevan Thiagarajah, who has inherited the task of resolving the issues faced by the people in the Province, is making an effort to see that State services in the Province function smoothly....

Scientifically some substances are named as ‘minerals’, if it satisfies certain requirements: 1. Naturally Occurring, 2. Inorganic (chemically)....

“See no evil-- hear no evil-- Speak no evil”: UN, the US, and the West [UK/EU] the champions of human rights, who make a huge noise at ‘the drop of a hat’ in a small country, are Blind, Deaf and....

After months of growing tension between NATO countries and Russia over a build up of Russian troops on the borders of Ukraine, war has finally broken out. The war....

I begin this column this week with an apology to readers. I had written a two part article titled “Sinhala Buddhist Strategist N. Q. Dias was feared as the “Tsar” in the “Daily Mirror” last week (Feb 19). Unfortunately I am unable to write

On 24 February Russian backed long term strongman Peter Yanukovych was ousted as Ukrainian president through a political upheaval backed by the West called the Maidan revolution in 2014.

Since 1952 Sri Lanka has suffered a devastating blood bath largely due to racial issues. The ruling United National Party’s(UNP) then frontliner S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike quit the Government and formed a new party and claimed that the main principle of

Sri Lanka is bracing for a food and drug shortage in the future. This is what the opposition harps on these days apart from maintaining that they are ready for any election. The Government....

The war Europe feared has begun. Yet Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is no Adolf Hitler or a mad man to trigger the Third World War or the biggest military conflict in Europe since....

Ven. Palatuwe Jinaratana Thera was awarded the honorary title of ‘Saddarmacharya Pravachana Keerthi Sri Chandaratne’ and bestowed with the responsibility of the position ‘Sub Sangha Nayake.....

Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 21 recognized two breakaway regions in Eastern Ukraine, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic.....

“The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” -Milan Kundera The theme that underpins today’s editorial is based on the struggles of a people and the blatant violation of their human rights.

Along with the economic crisis which shows no sign of early recovery, political confusion reigns in the government making it impossible for it to get its act together.

It’s out in the open, government has literally admitted, it faces a major foreign exchange crisis. Government is today running.....

I remember the first time I conducted a workshop for journalists in Sri Lanka. This was some time in mid 2004, I was with the late....

In the troubled and mismanaged economies, as the squeeze gets tightened, it is rather predictable, that unscrupulous political....

Politics seems to become gradually violent again. A seminar held by the National People’s Power (NPP), the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led coalition in Kalagedihena was attacked by a group of thugs with stones and eggs on January 30. Sri Lan

We are caught in the worst catastrophe ever, in our post independent history and it is not devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic alone as explained by rational minds. Covid-19 certainly pushed the crisis further, growing deeper by th

The petroleum industry has been one of the highlights in the recent past in the media with headings such as “CPC in a quandary after Lanka Indian Oil Company (LIOC) price increase” – (Daily News, 10th February 2022) and “Fuel price formula to

The Jayantha Premachandra Foundation is an advocacy foundation launched by Nilanka Premachandra, the daughter of the late Sri Lankan artist Jayantha Premachandra. Founded by Nilanka in memory of her father, the main focus is to he

There is a trend against the media, where Governments, who do not find a print or electronic telecast to be in agreement with their political thoughts and beliefs, have the architect/author arrested....

It has struck! The curse of ever-increasing debts and the unbearably unpleasant need to go for loans! The whole episode of debts and loans is a sorry tale to tell, depressing and oppressing....

Food, the most basic of our people’s needs for survival has now become scarce in Sri Lanka. While it is shortages of supplies including milk powder that sets some people on a scrambling....

Earlier this month, for over a week the health sector was paralysed by a strike called by the Sri Lanka Federation for Health Professionals, who commenced its strike last Monday (07) demanding....

In the article titled “1962 Coup:Takeover of Govt. Through Operation Holdfast” that was published in the “Daily Mirror”of January 29th 2022,

Two years back when Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected president, he had the best of both worlds. At home, a good part of the Sinhala Buddhist constituency was beholden to him.

It is widely accepted that in a just and fair society, the foundation is the family. It is accepted that in a family the foundation is the mother who plays a key role physically, spiritually,