Around 350 - 400 families live in Paranigama W.27/A Grama Niladhari Division in Ampara district. More than 350 acres of cultivation lands....

If not for the severity of the COVID 19 pandemic which has been threatening Sri Lankans as well as people in other countries with death, there could have sometimes been country wide demonstrations in Sri Lanka against the spiraling cost of livi

The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.K. Stalin, recently won plaudits both at home and abroad for announcing a very comprehensive welfare package totaling INR 317 crore (US$ 43.1 million) for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in the State.

US Ambassador Alaina B.Teplitz, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, talks about the development of business environment....

The Covid-19 is rampaging through the country with 4,596 new cases and 212 deaths reported up until last night....

Date—July 29, 1983 [Black July’s “koti awa” day]; Place—Fort: exactly opposite Regal cinema. Murderous hooligans roused....

The opposition that has been rightly blaming the government’s failure to restrict the people’s movement during the last Sinhala and Hindu New Year Period which resulted in the third wave of the COVID 19 in the country,

Frustration growing in adults in Sri Lanka and around the world is making the controlling of the COVID pandemic tougher each day.

The loss of Mangala Samaraweera is a devastating blow to statesmanship in Sri Lanka. In the words of theologian James Freeman Clarke...

When one hears a single bell toll, the message become clear. Someone within your community has passed. In the last few weeks.....

Three days ago, on August 24, Mangala Samaraweera Cabinet Minister of yester-year and a man of many parts and talents breathed...

Behind the frantic efforts by the United States to evacuate tens of thousands of foreign troops and Afghans before the Taliban’s no-nonsense....

Let me share some of my thought with my own experiences and unfolding events in Kabul. Afghanistan has been in deep political divisions, structural governance challenges, and economic insecurity to impede durable peace and development progress for ye

The First Anglo-Afghan War, William Dalrymple observed just a week ago (‘Britain’s fourth Afghan war is a replay of the first infamous retreat 170 years ago), was arguably the greatest military humiliation ever suffered by the West in the East.

In moves reminiscent of April 29, 1975, which marked the end of the Vietnam War and that of US troops hurriedly vacating the country becoming an enduring symbol of defeat with thousands of Americans and their Vietnamese allies airlifted out of the ci

Following the ‘manmade’ gas shortage in the country there is public opinion to say that this was allegedly manipulated by the Ministry of Trade....

The message has been repeating on a loop. It took 20 years, four US Presidents, some three trillion dollars and 100,000 lives....

In February 2020, the US and the Taliban signed a deal for the safe withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan....

Based on the nature and the behavior of the coronavirus that has brought in a global pandemic, it is the duty of the medical experts to explain the effectiveness of a ten-day lock down or a curfew. Some reports say that a person who has contracted

Kneejerk economic measures could lead to ‘long Covid’

The current leadership of Sri Lanka has unfortunately begun to show signs of failure a little too soon.

People storming the Kabul airport, attempting to cross the Afghan border to other countries and some Afghans falling....

The number of persons, who have contracted the coronavirus/Covid-19 in the country by August 22, 2021 stands at 385,696, while the number....

Boris Johnson early last month told his people, “Learn to Live with Covid as we do with Flu.” The British Premier declared an end...

Media reports say that the Cabinet of ministers has approved reforms to the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA). The reforms...

Against the backdrop of a mini Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, State Minister Sashindra Rajapaksa has told media on Thursday that another reshuffle is on the cards. He had argued that changes need to be made yearly and some responsibilities have to be s

The modern interpretation of the word charity is love. Essentially, love or charity means being other-centred. We find ourselves when we lose ourselves and are liberated from the selfishness or self-centredness that controls most of us most of the ti

The headlines said it all. On Sunday and Monday, Western media headlines screamed that Afghanistan had fallen. The western media believed the hawks’ narrative of America’s war on terror. It was a terror war, the rulers said; the media parroted it