The Government has articulated over and again that its foreign policy will be neutral and non-aligned. However, it is now challenging for the regime to be true to such a policy since the major powers with interests in the region have made it almost u

In February valentine’s day parties were canceled and people were told to remain at home. Sri Lanka also braces itself to face a new variant of the COVID-19 pandemic which is said to have originated in England and now present in this island nation.

This turn of events, which would have been the cause for much relief especially to the Muslim community, took place in no less a forum than Parliament with no less a person than Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa taking centre-stage.

A few years ago, the Indian Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah, who also served as the President of the Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020 in a conversation over the party’s victories in several States is reported to have quipped ‘Ne

India has at various times in the past and in the not too distant past proved to be a valuable ally of our country. In fact our Prime Minister....

Shakthika Sathkumara was acquitted and released by the Magistrate’s Court of Polgahawela last week, as the Attorney General, at long last....

The resolution of the East Container Terminal saga with a Cabinet decision that the Sri Lanka Ports Authority would retain 100% ownership and control....

The recent newspaper reports show what a messy situation prevails in hospitals in handling the victims of COVID-19 and the lack of empathy towards the relatives of the victims. An article in the latest issue of our sister paper, The Sunday Times expl

Since there could not be “accountability” in the true sense of the term without credible evidence of culpability, data will first have to be collected scientifically and transparently, Dr.Gunaratna argued

Last week, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa assured in Parliament that the government would soon permit the burial of Muslims who died of Covid-19. “The dead will be allowed to be buried,” he quipped in response to a question by the Sa

Copyright in its culture is constructed to deal with author’s supremacy and branches out to the two prone claim viz economic rights, and moral rights

Diplomacy is the art or skill of managing international relations -typically the art of dealing with foreign governments in a sensitive and tactful way.

Three times Prime Minister U Nu’s democratic Union Parliament was overthrown by General Ne Win on March 2, 1962.

The “Pottuvil to Poligandy” (P2P) Protest that ended last week was a watershed moment in the political history of Sri Lankan Tamils.

Sri Lanka will shortly be facing renewed scrutiny at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, where elements of the international community have been calling for action over unsubstantiated war crimes allegations.

Stories about Sri Lankan migrant workers, especially women left on roadsides in Kuwait after being stranded went viral, first on social media and then carried in the mainstream media this week.

The rift between Industries Minister Wimal Weerawansa and the main constituent party in the ruling coalition, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna......

Myanmar, formerly Burma, a Buddhist nation, is in tears because the military has taken over the administration of the country once again.

These are days when much of school education is happening online via zoom technology. Teachers are seen from a distance.

In theory, human rights are universal and apolitical. This is what international human rights law insists, for the law is no respecter of nations or politics.

The final report, of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on the April 21, 2019 Easter Sunday Suicide Attacks, was handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by PCoI Chairman, Supreme Court Judge Janak de Silva at the Presidential Secretari

The United Kingdom is set to present a resolution at the 46th Sessions of the UNHRC on (read, ‘against’) Sri Lanka. Ideally the United States of America, which co-sponsored a resolution ON (read, again, ‘against’) Sri Lanka in 2015, should be

State Minister of Money, Capital Markets and Public Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal, in an interview with the Dailymirror, speaks about the present status of economy and steps for macroeconomic developments. Excerpts:

This year on February 4, as has happened over the past 73 years, leaders of the governing political elite ‘celebrated’ this country’s Independence Day....

When what is now known as the Saffron Revolution began in Myanmar in early 2007, the big difference between a decade back....

In journalism, we are told that we should avoid the use of clichés because they are often quoted and thereby prostituted. But in this case we use the cliché ‘the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world’ because it is approp

The election of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) is around the corner and there are two contenders for the post of President. BASL is a professional body of lawyers tasked with the responsibility of regulating the legal profession. It is an or

Folks in Ginigathhena are concerned because a junior politician of the Ambagamuwa Pradesha Sabha is causing harm to the environment through one of his questionable activities. It is reported that lumps of earth have been removed from a construction s

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is gearing up to launch its 46th session virtually on February 22.

The not unexpected military coup which ended Myanmar’s nerve-wracking experiment with civilian rule overshadows this week’s Covid-19 dominated world news.