Her death ought to shine a light on the plight of the plantation workers’ community to which she belonged

People who use drugs or have a drug dependency are demonised and dehumanised and portrayed as a public threat

Justice Minister Ali Sabry takes questions regarding the process of amending the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act and others. In his interview, he also responds matters related to cases under the PTA. The Excerpt

The ‘Middle East’ as we know it today (awash with its vast reserves of petroleum resources), was once part of the Ottoman Empire. The redrawing....

The continued mismanagement and mishandling of vital issues by the government is causing chaos and disorder. The contradictory....

Shelton Ranaraja known to many as “Shelly Aiya” passed away on August 11, 2011. Shelton or Shelly Aiya was a politician for whom I have the greatest respect.

The Director General of Health Services (DGHS), Asela Gunawardena on August 5 had confirmed the occurrence of 94 COVID-19 related deaths on the previous day. This might be the highest number of such deaths on a single day in Sri Lanka since the pande

Enforced disappearance has frequently been used as a strategy to spread terror and tyranny within the society. The feeling of insecurity generated by this practice is not limited to the close relatives of the disappeared, but also affects their commu

COVID-19 cases are rising again, triggering fears over the capacity of the health sector to cope with the daily...

Sri Lanka is a nation which has seen many rebellions staged against the state or the government. These rebellions suggest that....

A scorpion wants to cross the stream and asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates because it is afraid the scorpion will sting....

Children give us so much hope, but have parents and guardians done their part for these children? We can raise so many questions regarding their welfare and safety.

Dr. Padma Gunaratne, President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) warned a few weeks ago that the country is heading toward what she called ‘the first phase of the Covid-19 fourth wave outbreak.’ Doctors, as we know, are playing a wonder

Amid the increasing number of Covid-19 patients and Covid-related deaths, the Sri Lankan Government, which began its battle against the Covid-19 virus in March last year, has now been compelled to fight against its various mutations, the latest being

A non-communicable disease (NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another. These are the result.....

COVID-19 has changed our lives introducing “new norms” at least for the next decade. During good old days, when we went to school....

The UN-created problem in Palestine -the arbitrary setting up of the state of Israel- on Palestinian land continues to fester to this day.....

The Sri Lankan High Commissioner-designate to India, Milinda Moragoda, has communicated to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa...

Is Sri Lanka at the threshold of fourth wave of COVID-19 or has it already entered through that threshold? We have to pose this question as the nature of the current surge in the number of COVID-19 patients during the past week is not clear.

The suspicious death of a domestic help at the residence of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen has momentarily unmasked the ugly truth of an exploitative affair that many a Sri Lankan middle-class family takes for granted: having a maid, predo

The euphoria that followed the sudden announcement that a 24 hour vaccination centre has been set up in the Vihara Maha Devi Park for Astra Zeneca booster vaccine, prompted me to write this. From a distance it may appear to be the

Covid-19 is short-form used to describe the dreaded pandemic, caused by a new strain of coronavirus, ‘CO’ standing for corona....

There is a common myth promoted by the ruling classes backed by finance capitalists that privatisation and commercialisation....

I refer to the Daily Mirror -28th [online] photo report, captioned, ‘Protest dishonouring health guidelines’, “… several member....

State Minister of Money, Capital Markets and Public Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal, in an interview....

Sivaji Ganesan, M.G. Ramachandran (MGR) and Gemini Ganesan comprised the triumvirate that dominated Tamil cinema in India from the fifties to the seventies of the 20th century.

On 15 August 2009, the bodies of two girls were found floating in the Torrington canal at Baudhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 07. How many of us remember this incident now?

In most countries indigenous people are marginalized if not outcast though they have a rich culture of their own. For instance,

A political party presenting a manifesto and winning an election is simular to a film director working according to what’s written....

There is a bizarre connection between a Reuter news agency picture of a Chinese female athlete winning a gold medal in the weightlifting....