The first patient diagnosed with the dreaded coronavirus as we knew it at that time, or the Covid-19 as it has been ‘rebranded’ today....

This is an age when education is said to be about teaching students through the best online medium and preparing students with the “competencies” ....

The Daily Mirror recently spoke to Erik Solheim, former peace negotiator, who acted as the main facilitator of the peace process in Sri Lanka.....

In keeping with the practice of devoting at least one article each month to a cinema-related topic, this column focuses on the popular Sinhala film actor Tony Ranasinghe this week.

Despite the civil war ending in 2009 the issues related to the northern fisherfolk underscore that the Tamil community remains harassed and marginalised.

In 1978, the JR Jayewardene government used or misused its 5/6 majority in parliament to swallow wholesale the globalised capitalist market economic system which most independent economic analysts believe is largely responsible for the crises Sri Lan

These days we see a leading television station going all out to send a message to the state authorities that there are less affluent....

The Joe Biden administration bans domains that hosted Iranian news websites. Saudi Arabia demands that Qatar shuts down Al Jazeera...

M. R. Latiff, a lion hearted legend, renowned for his exemplary commitment to the mission he was tasked with - a mission to protect.....

People entering the Parliament as MPs during a mid-term of it is a common phenomenon, but the gossipmongers among politicians.....

Early morning, October 20,1995. The SriLankan Airlines aircraft with President Chandrika Bandaranaike and her officials had taken off from Katunayake Airport.

United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe made news on June 23, when he was sworn in by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene as an ordinary member of the ninth Parliament some 10 months after the UNP, which he had led since 1994,

The decision to finally end the ‘travel restrictions’ shows that the government realizes how desperately people are trying to make ends meet.

Dehiwala Police conducted a raid at Matrix Lifecare Pvt Ltd situated at No 52/13, Rubber Watta area in Nedimala,

With a vision to educate males and females to be commissioned officers in the armed forces the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy....

It only took 29 seconds, that right 29 seconds to unravel what has been for years the shambles that is Sri Lanka cricket.

Over the past few years, this country has been wracked by one catastrophe after another, with almost monotonous regularity.

The row between the authorities and the farmers over the ban on chemical fertilizer reminds us the Sinhala folktale “Hathara Beeri Kathawa” in which a deaf man askes another deaf man a question to which the latter gives an answer which is not

Influential presidential sibling Basil Rajapaksa is tipped to be sworn in as a National List MP next week when his two-week quarantine after returning from a holiday in the United States ends. That would be the precursor to be appointed as the M

Basil Rajapaksa returned to the island yet again, and with a baggage load of hot and juicy news. He is said to sit in Parliament from the SLPP National List on 06th July. There is said to be about four SLPP National list MPs competing to resign for B

Since the crushing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the Sri Lankan military in 2009, Many Tamils young people....

Poson is famous for “Abhayadana,” [Rescue from slaughter]. This year’s Poson became famous for an abhayadana of a different.....

Former Minister of Finance and former Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake has not been active in the political arena after losing the election....

Never have we been so unfortunate to observe and experience a chain of marine turtle deaths in our seas. At the time of this writing....

During the period March 2020 to 24 June 2021 there were reports of six cases of encounter killings, twenty-seven cases of police...

There was considerable political excitement some days ago, when a meeting was scheduled between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).

The combination of sea level rise, tides, storm surge and waves has increased the overtopping of natural and artificial coastal protection by nearly 50% in the last two decades. This revelation comes from an international study by IRD (France), IHE D

Public service is not merely for those who work for the government, but we all need to be public servants or be at the service of those in need.

Dads are the least celebrated and hardly receive gifts. Most often what they do is taken for granted; especially the extra hours .....

However flawed the Iranian democracy is, it has been electing through universal adult franchise presidents and legislative assembly.....