The recent strike by the healthcare workers gave enough food for thought to the Government to think about the welfare of health workers. The unions backing the healthcare workers called....

For a woman, a scarf around her head is way scarier than the scarf around her neck, satirised the famous US standup comedian Hasan Minhaj in 2015 in a Jon Stewart Comedy Central show. The video.....

Most local politicians are namesake Buddhists and the story about to unfold will provide evidence of that. Plans to build sacred cities began when Ceylon was under British rule. The Pilgrimages....

It is no secret that the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government is struggling to come to terms with its worst ever economic crisis in decades. With Sri Lanka’s foreign reserves hitting rock-bottom, the government....

Right. It’s time for the Geneva Circus. It is time to turn cough and cold into full-blown Covid-19. It is time to make mountains out of a molehill. It is time for politicians and activists whose preferred outcomes....

A cursory glance at international news these days is enough to send shivers down the spine of even battle-hardened war.....

The Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) (Amendment) Bill, a bill to amend the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act, No. 48 of 1979....

The death of the 10-year-old boy in Badalgama who had to breathe his last on February 7, allegedly due to the superstitious beliefs of his parents will soon be forgotten, if it has not already been forgotten. He would sometimes be remembered only aft

Bangladesh is today hailed as a South Asian “Tiger” for its rapid economic development. But its early years as an independent country were traumatic, not just because it was a “basket case” but because it was torn by violence and instability

Hardly a day passes these days without news media publishing in emblazoned headlines that our government has managed to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from India or that China....

A public rally called ‘Podujana Rally’ was held on February 9 in Anuradhapura, with the participation of the President and Prime Minister; while health authorities maintained....

As Sri Lanka and Japan celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations, a series of events have been organized to mark this bilateral friendship.

Back in December 2019 the world experienced its first case of COVID-19 from Wuhan city, China, rapidly spread across the globe, flattering a global pandemic in March 2020 (World Health Organization, 2020). After the public health emergency issued by

The ethnic problem or the national question as some people call it is a topic only among the Tamil leaders, after the end of the war between the armed forces and the LTTE in 2009.

The famous British artist Matt Monro sang: “Born free as free as the wind blows, as free as the grass grows, born free to follow your heart; Live free,

As the 9th Intake of officer cadets, we celebrate 41 years, since joining the Sri Lanka Air Force on February 12, 1981. When we joined, the Sri Lanka Air Force Air Chief Marshal Harry Goonetileke.....

“All too often, what matters is not whether an idea is true or effective, but whether it fits with the preconceptions of a dominant cabal.” Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power....

The tea estate workers continue to be in the news, but their lives haven’t changed much. This is a country which has promised them much. Lawmakers have spoken aloud in parliament about them.....

Until the United States military killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi on February 3, many people had not heard his name or knew that he was the leader of the dreaded terrorist group...

Sri Lanka gained its independence from Britain 74 years ago. But, 74 years later, are we as a country and a people truly free, sovereign and

Grumblings against this government was widespread as it prepared for Independence Day celebrations on February 4. Critics said it was a waste of money when the economy was bankrupt. “People are hungry. What celebrations?” goes the argument. Compl

Last week as Sri Lanka celebrated the 74th anniversary of its independence, there happened to be a lumbering amount of analysis as to what went wrong in our independent history. Much of that discourse....

On December 29, 1947 the United Nations (UN) partitioned Palestine via Resolution 181 (II). The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States and a Special International....

Chief Opposition Whip and former Minister Lakshman Kiriella is one of the most senior politicians in the House with a vast knowledge....

It is ironic that a section of the people in the country are accusing the government for giving in to external pressure to refrain from taking....

Sri Lanka celebrates its 74th Independence Day today not as a successful nation or a stable state, but as almost a fragile state. Not only individual....

Future generations will judge this period in Sri Lanka’s history as one defined by extreme turmoil and upheaval; as a country, we have been here before: the 1953 Hartal, the ’58 Anti-Tamil....

Politicians and mistakes are synonymous, from years gone by to more recent days, the the blunders politicians have sometimes changed the course of history. Some cast a dark shadow over....

No one can deny the economic crisis in Sri Lanka. The Government that wasted valuable time as the crisis deepened with its insipid vision of “Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour”, is finally acknowledging the...

Former Executive Director Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) Thushan Gunawardena speaking to the Daily Mirror questions as to why the person who exposed the fraud....