The three arrests made thus far in the case relating to the bid on the life of the Maldivian Parliament Speaker and former President Mohamed Nasheed in Male on May 6, show that Islamic radicalism is alive, kicking and deep-rooted in the Maldives.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Dr. Harsha de Silva in an interview with Daily Mirror shared his views on his party’s approach to the issue confronting Sri Lanka at the UNHRC in Geneva. Also, he responded to questions related to the Colombo Port Ci

To date, worldwide over one hundred and fifty-five million people have been affected by the coronavirus and over 3.2 million have died of the scourge.

US President Joe Biden may not be colourful like his mercurial, unpredictable predecessor, but he has worked hard from day one to extricate his country from the foreign policy.....

“Stalin Thaan Varraaru, Namakku Vidivu Tharraaru” (Stalin is only coming and will give us a Dawn) was the key slogan around which the Indian political party” Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam” (DMK) conducted its election campaign for the Tamil Nadu

Once during cross talks over the Central Bank bond scandal at the Western Provincial Council during the last government,

For ages and generations good families have been the nucleus of a good society. Responsible and duty conscious parents have helped to nurture good children who turn out to be civic conscious citizens.

These are days where a theft inside an ATM machine in Sri Lanka is going viral on social media. The visuals show.....

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads out of control in neighbouring India, the sad reality is that the worst health crisis.....

A good number of people didn’t like late President Ranasinghe Premadasa. That was because of his dictatorial ways.

Chinese State Councillor and Defence Minister Wei Fenghe arrived in Sri Lanka for a brief visit recently.

The final challenge, so it is said, faced by the Ascetic Siddhartha prior to Enlightenment was an encounter with Mara.

More than a thousand COVID-infected patients from across the country are currently being reported daily since the virus was first detected in March 2020.

“Stifling the peaceful expression of legitimate dissent today can only result, inexorably, in the catastrophic explosion of violence some other day.”

Dr. Quintin Devanarayana, a reputed Vaastu and bioenergetics Consultant, conducted a demonstration on the Analysis of Compatibility of the Matter on the Organism and its synergy (ACMOS).

Sinhala New Year didn’t end in the Kandyan territory as scheduled on April 14, but it continued till April 29 with a ritual at Sagama Raja Maha Viharaya.

May 1, 2021 marked the second time in our country’s history, since workers’ day was first commemorated in Sri Lanka in 1927, that workers.....

The medium is the message, Canadian Marshal McLuhan wrote in 1964. That was when the medium was not as complicated.

Can Sri Lanka contain the surging third wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country without going for a major lockdown is the que

India is in the grips of an avoidable catastrophe. In a country that prides itself as the pharmacy to the world, patients are gasping for breath and crematoriums are running out of place. While an unprecedented second wave of the Coronavir

As our recently-reopened schools are closed again due to the new surge of COVID, the effect of the pandemic on schoolchildren through a....

An event flagged by blood-splattered clothes of martyrs who sacrificed lives for a cause in 1886 in the US— the Greens, Blues & Reds....

Prof. Neelika Malavige, the head of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Sciences of the Sri Jayawardenapura University after....

The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) marks the World Press Freedom Day today (May 3, 2021) in concurrence with UNESCO’s commemoration.....

Between January and April this year, a number of high profile visitors have visited our shores. On January 5, we had big brother......

Sri Lanka is on the downward slide of chauvinist oppression. The Cabinet last week decided to ban the burqa and niqab worn by Muslim women.

Renowned Sri Lankan Film Maker Lester James Peries passed away three years ago at the age of 99.

Sri Lanka has seen an intensified degree of defence cooperation in 2021.

May Day or the International Workers’ Day-- the day marking the historic struggles and gains made by workers and the labour movement,- is observed in many countries today May 1.

The Sri Lankan Understanding, is geared towards exploring the path taken by Sri Lanka, an island nation in the Indian Ocean.....