In the early hours of Sunday (November 8) morning, CNN announced the projected victory of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States.

Pandemic deaths averaged 1200 with over 120,000 new cases added each day, while election hanged on swing states for four days.

More than eleven years have passed since the war between the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organisation concluded.

In the first seven months between March 11 and October 4 Sri Lanka saw only around 3500 coronavirus infected people out of whom 13 died. But, for the past one month since October 4 the number of infected persons has surged by over 9,000, bringing the

America’s coloured people like the famous “Old black Joe” who picked cotton for centuries, yesterday were given the blessing and Beatitude virtues of picking the most powerful man in the United states if not the world.

There is much hate against the Muslims the world over and even those practising the faith preached by Prophet Mohammad in Sri Lanka wouldn’t tend to think otherwise.

What is separating United States President and Republican candidate Donald Trump and the much fought for second presidential term....

Crisis. This is interestingly a word that at some level warms the cockles of a politician’s heart. Governments can point to calamities and pooh-pooh demands to address issues that have plagued society for a long time. They provide ammunition to the

It is getting to be too difficult to keep pace with the rapidly-spreading COVID-19, mainly in the Colombo District, which Army Commander Shavendra Silva, who Heads the National Operation Centre for the Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO), has de

Presidential Elections in the United States (US) generate interest from the world over. Americans went to polls on November 3 in record numbers, according to the foreign media, braving the pandemic.

Leave the dangers of COVID-19 alone the mentality of Sri Lankans in how they set about dealing with this pandemic isn’t very healthy.

Yesterday, 3 November 2020, Americans went to the polls. They began voting for their next president. Americans have a choice between Donald Trump....

Looking at Sri Lanka while stuck somewhere thousands of miles far off has always given me a sense of living in two parallel universes.

Visits from US Secretaries of State to Sri Lanka are rare. In the past seventy two years there have been only four visits - 1956, 1972, 2005 and 2015....

Beauty has varied throughout time, various cultures and the vast different perceptions of the universe have applied varied connotations and perceptions to Beauty.

The way the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was passed on October 22 has again opened the debate over the party politics a

America’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, who was in Colombo, making the second stop in his four-nation Asian tour slighted China as a predator, last week. “We see from bad dea

Norwegian Ambassador to Sri Lanka Trine Joranli Eskedal speaks to the Daily Mirror about the direction of bilateral relations under current circumstances. Norway played the role of peace facilitator between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL

Will the Government bring in a new Constitution replacing the 2nd Republican Constitution with its 20 amendments during its tenure? This question has to be raised as the Government has passed a separate Constitutional amendment, the 20th Amendment on

The human mind survives, even thrives, on an age-old but simple mechanism called complacency. Even when things look pretty bad, it keeps saying, no, it can’t happen to you.

A man armed with a knife killed three persons in a terrorist attack on a church in Nice - France. The killings occurred at around 9.00 am inside.....

At the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year, Donald Trump chose not to meet Juan Guaidó. Exactly a year earlier, in January 2019, Guaidó had declared himself interim president of Venezuela after securing the support of some 50 countries;

With the 20th Amendment being pushed through after using various means to get the support of eight Opposition MPs,

The Government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa achieved a significant victory last week when the 20th Constitutional Amendment was passed in Parliament with 156 MP’s voting in support and 65 Voting against.

These are times when Lanka’s moment of glory in the international scene has much to do with her geostrategic beauty than her achievements.....

Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Admiral (Rtd.) Jayanath Colombage, said quite a mouthful when he said Sri Lanka has an ‘India First’ foreign policy. He didn’t say, for example, ‘first India, others later.’ He later said ‘Sri Lanka

Despite Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi continuing to maintain that the virus has not reached community spread, the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) says several infected patients are emerging from within the community and that t

Sri Lanka’s voters do have short memories. Just turn the pages of time in the history of local politics and we will see how former heads of state Sirimavo Bandaranaike and JR Jayewardene abused power with the intention of becoming ever so powerful.

Amid the pandemic raging across the globe, the world is focused on the November 3 election which will determine who will rule the United States, the world’s largest economic power, for the next four years.