Is oppression good? Is colonialism good? Is encroachment good? Is capitulation good? Can we support injustice?....

Today the United Nations celebrated World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development and it is important for Sri Lanka....

No sooner had Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane read out the Supreme Court determination on the constitutionality of the Port City Economic Commission Bill than the government announced it would amend the bill accordingly to make it consistent with th

When the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) celebrated 12 years after winning the civil war on Tuesday (May 18) the battered Tamil community had a lot to ponder on.

Twelve years ago, almost to the day, the Sri Lankan security forces brought an end to a three decades long struggle against terrorism against the world’s most ruthless terrorist organization.

If the life of one whom the law has taken into its custody is at the mercy of the mob, the administration of justice becomes a mockery -- US Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville Fuller

Israel’s war against Palestinians in Gaza continues into its second week in all its ferocity. Jerusalem is experiencing its worst unrest in years.

The announcement by State Minister of Primary Health Services, Pandemics and COVID Prevention Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle that asymptomatic COVID 19 patients would be treated at their homes indicates the gravity of the pro

The police explanations of killings have the same old hackneyed excuse. Almost all suspects have tried to grab a weapon from the cops when they were taken to recover hidden weapons. In other instances, some have tried to escape, jumping to rivers w

Vijay Thanigasalam MPP, a 29-year-old financial adviser has successfully presented in the Ontario Legislature, a Private Bill 104 Called , “Tamil Genocide Education Week Act”. Canada is one of the Geneva-based UNHRC’s Sri Lanka Core Group membe

Startling revelations have surfaced as to how the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and the Consumer Affairs Authority-the apex government institution....

Jerusalem, the city sacred to millions of Christians, Muslims and Jews has gone up in flames with hundreds of Palestinian......

Even as we remember the cataclysmic end of the war, with its immense destruction and loss of life in May 2009, Sri Lanka is on the verge.....

Srinivasan Kamal Haasan known popularly as Kamal Haasan and Kamal is arguably the finest actor in Tamil cinema today.

A sea change in the recently concluded Tamil Nadu State Assembly election compared to the past elections was that the Sri Lankan Tamil problem was not a campaign issue for any of the main political party in the State this time. Tamil problem across t

TV footages days ago showed Police personnel in their Personal Protective equipment (PPE) forcibly carrying people who have allegedly violated the quarantine law on streets to the buses,

We have received the results of the 2020 Advanced Level Examination and are considering options for university hopefuls.

The house of cards Israel has built projecting itself as the victim surrounded by Arab enemies is fast crumbling in the social media.

The recent visit to Sri Lanka by Chinese Defence Minister, General Wei Fenghe, says much about the growing bilateral relationship.....

On the last day of Shaba an (i.e. the eighth month of the Islamic calendar) Muslims all over the world start looking for the new moon....

In a further effort to contain the rapidly spreading COVID-19, Sri Lanka’s nine provinces will be locked down and inter-provincial travel ban imposed from Tuesday midnight up to May 30, 2021,

We had the first wave, the second and now the third. And, as is typical of a capitalist world order, crises (or waves) are a bit like the bread of Egypt,

With the third wave of Covid-19 taking its toll by the day, the government is primarily occupied with one key challenge.

For some reason, we thought that we were immune from the Coronavirus. We thought there was something that protects us.

Weeks ago the Presidential Media Unit announced, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, following up on promises made in his election.....

Can a mother forget her baby or a woman a child within her womb? As Ann Breen sings; What a friend we have in mother Who will all our secrets share,We should never keep things from her, Tell her all and she’ll be there;

On Sunday, Sri Lanka crossed the 2000 mark of daily COVID infections for the first time, recording 2672 cases. 15 deaths were reported. Though the authorities have attributed the sudden spike to the clearing of the backlog of PCR tests, which

According to his Dr.Moller, his physician, Hitler was on the brink of insanity. This was because Germany failed to enter the Soviet Union

The right to security and safety is a fundamental human right, guaranteed by the UN charter that was promulgated at its first plenary in Paris on December 10, 1948