It is said that when the United States sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold. So, one can imagine the worldwide devastation....

Political commentary is easy. Good political commentary is rare. Think of a jigsaw puzzle. A tough one; not the one with just a dozen pieces, but one with a thousand and where the picture to be obtained has colour-line elements that are similar and s

Human Rights are commonly known across the Globe and especially among the countries that subscribe to its shared values as the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person, regardless of where they are from, what they believe or how they cho

Relations between the world’s two strongest powers; US and China - have reached a dangerously new low. Both nations are presently....

Yesterday morning a colleague of mine Lasantha de Silva had penned a Facebook column on the latest media....

The Daily Mirror recently spoke to Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Prof. Charitha Herath on the recent.....

The Ceylon Teacher Services Union (CTSU) announced on Sunday that it would refrain from conducting online teaching practices from Monday (yesterday) to protest against the Government’s move to forcibly direct Ceylon Teachers’ Union (CTU) Genera

Sri Lankan politics has been a good deal of family business. It was not even the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the progenitor of the SLPP that started it; D.S. Senanayake, the first prime minister flouted an implicit understanding of the succession and u

Multiple actors—from the Taliban leadership to local commanders—have played a key role in creating and shaping the movement’s policy in Afghanistan

We should restock these lands by developing herding and land-use programmes, as well as developing an agroforestry network along the forest’s perimetre

Somewhere after defeating separatist terrorism in 2009, Sri Lanka missed a glorious chance of turning a destructive....

Very often we happen to find news published in print media about seizure of illicit cigarettes.....

Writer Kanya D’Almeida became the first Sri Lankan to win the ‘Commonwealth Short Story Prize’ awarded for the best new writing.....

Youth and Sports Minister and Digital Technology and Enterprise Development State Minister Namal Rajapaksa had made an inspiring speech in Parliament on June 23 on the long standing issue of Tamils who have been detained under the draconian Preventio

In this hi-tech era young people are playing an increasingly important role in the mission for socio-economic justice including poverty alleviation, the battle against climate change, human rights and equality in educational opportunities.

Voices of dissent are growing in the country. The latest individuals to take to the streets were the undergraduates of Rajarata University.

The late Anton Jones sang a song about ‘Podi Saman Kumara’. The lyrics of the song reveal that a child was abducted....

In scenes reminiscent of the United States’ humiliating exit from Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975, US soldiers left the Bagram....

Sri Lankan physicist and economist Prof. Mohan Munasinghe recently received the prestigious ‘Blue Planet’ award from Japan’s.....

A very wise man, then an undergraduate at the University of Peradeniya, once said that there are no wrongdoers in this world — everyone justifies their actions/decisions. The act or decision may be illegal or unethical respectively, but in the mind

It is sad indeed to contemplate the tragedy that befell the turtles and other much-loved marine species such as dolphins and whales in the catastrophic aftermath of the blazing inferno on board the MV X-Press Pearl. As of last week, 176 turtles, 20 d

The post –Covid -19 world is poised to be different to what it was before the pandemic. Fresh economic challenges and alteration of social fabric are all too visible now the world over. Coinages of new phrases are constantly done to be added to the

How distant the claims of concern for human rights, fair play and religiosity are from the reality of day-to-day life.

For a person who was grandiosely parachuted on to the national political scene, hailed as a master accomplisher of stupendous.....

As in other countries of the world, the outbreak of the COVID-19 led to lockdowns and severe border restrictions in Singapore.

My paternal grandfather was the Editor of The Saturday Post in Singapore. A successful journalist in a three-piece suit, coat, shirt and....

Teachers have decided to boycott the Regional Learning Centres that were to be unveiled by the Ministry of Education....

There’s a great deal of ruin in a nation, Adam Smith once consoled a friend who remarked, after the British defeat in Saratoga....

Political scientists’ vocabulary describes the rule by a family as familiocracy. The dual citizenship ban on public office was removed....

The planned move to make the SLPP (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna) National Organizer Basil Rajapaksa a Cabinet Minister....