The decision taken by the Sri Lanka Police and the Ministry of Defence to allocate an area for protesters to agitate in Colombo seems timely and a great need of the present times.

Questions have been raised within the Green Party as to whether the party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe values the UNP styled democracy which was once present within the party. The UNP has been a party which has survived with so many internal squabbles

On Wednesday, February 4, Sri Lanka celebrated its 72nd Anniversary of Independence or its National Day by remembering with gratitude the untiring efforts of our founding father Don Stephen Senanayake and the political stalwarts from the Sinhala, Tam

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, during his speech at the Independence Day celebrations, not unlike his predecessors, rolled out what could be called a ‘should-be’ list, implying that things are not in order but should be and could be corrected. H

With Pakistan and Somalia both declaring national emergency over locust attacks on crops while a host of East African nations, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the western states of India going through one of the worst locust episodes in hi

Our beloved country has always been steeped in traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation!!! Sri Lanka is a land of mystery, a land whose history, culture and traditions remain even today; they are some of the most exquisite

The day on which we got Independence is a long way back on memory lane for me , in a genteel era far removed from the world which is ours today. As a child it meant little to me then, I think I must have been far more interested in getting my own ind

Ten years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, the country still seems to be spending its defence budget similarly to that of conflicted-affected states, a new study reveals. It also states that spending is significantly higher than its regional

Yesterday’s Daily Mirror reported about Chinese government’s concern over the incidents in Sri Lanka where its nationals having been refused to be entertained by shops and taxis, subsequent to the worldwide media hype over the outbreak of 2019-nC

The critics of the government base their criticism primarily on symbolism and prejudice. That is the wrong choice for analysis. The shattered hopes of a half a decade of Yahapalayana, heralded as a sea change, is proof. Five years ago, by electing th

If the tea industry is on the brink of collapse now, it is not because of the rise in workers’ wages but because of the big plantation companies’ failure to replant periodically to increase the yield, asserts Ramiah Yogarajan, a trade unionist wh

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Countries in the WHO South-East Asia Region must continue to strengthen their readiness to respond. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV

Politics in many parts of the world today are polarised. The tremendous division with forces supporting and opposed to Trump in the US and the Brexit divide in the UK reflect such political polarisation.

In Forensic Audit, the term ‘forensic’ means; ‘pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate’; ‘application of scientific methods and techniques to the investigation’; ‘use of knowledge and tec

The Fourth of February is a special day for all Sri Lankans. Most of us will eagerly take a break from our daily schedules, watch the Independence parade on TV, read a few feature stories about our Independence in the newspapers and, maybe, have a ch

International media is inundated with reports, analysis and future projections from two different shocks that are continually shaking the global system. One is political by design, the second a viral outbreak, both with serious human....

Brexit has happened. At 11 pm on January 31, 2020, the UK officially left the European Union (EU) after 47-years of membership and three years after it voted at a referendum to leave EU.

Conspiracy theories come a dime a dozen these days. So does fake news. You can count on Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter for diminishing the space for truth. And yet, strange as it may seem,

Prof. Raj Somadeva had recently made a controversial statement that any archaeological evidence was not available to establish the story of advent of Prince Vijaya in Sri Lanka. Prof. Somadeva has been for the last several years pursuing archaeologic

To be good citizens who make a substantial contribution to the sustainable, eco-friendly development of our country for the common good of all, we need to be healthy in addition to being creative, imaginative and enterprising.

In mid-December 2019, a mysterious respiratory disease (now known as the coronavirus) was reported from China. The Chinese city of Wuhan appeared to be the epicentre of the outbreak. To date, the virus has killed more than a hundred people and infect

The media hype worldwide - created on newfound epidemic ‘2019-CoV’ and known to Sri Lankans as Coronavirus - seems to have both negative and positive impacts. Almost all local and international media outlets including CNN, BBC, ABC, DW, NHK, Al-J

The time has arrived for us to think of potential negative consequences of unbridled and unrestrained attacks made on the judiciary consequent to the release of many audio clips to the mass media.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu was slapped corruption charges this week while he was hobnobbing with US President Donald Trump in Washington. Bibi has, apparently, done his homework in psychology. He knew the quickest way to get rou

The tourism industry in Sri Lanka seems to be experiencing a never-ending bad period. This is a nation where most television stations engage morning viewers with astrology programmes and most often than not so much negativities are inserted into thei

India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s visit to Sri Lanka sheds light on his country’s interest in making sure that things agreed upon bilaterally are implemented on the ground. During the past five years, most bilateral projects did no

Engaging in the media business in Sri Lanka is not an easy task given that there is often an aggressive government to deal with and readers who at times wish to remain drifted away from the truth..

There are nationalists and they are vilified. There are people who vilify nationalism and nationalists and they are called traitors. It’s a pick-your-enemy kind of political culture that we live in. It makes for easy, convenient and in the cheap po

Reminiscent of the Sena Caterpillar which devastated crops across the country leaving epidemiologists and health authorities helpless on how best to control it leave alone eliminate or eradicate it from Sri Lanka’s soil comes the more alarming news

There is no other country in the world where ‘MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN’ is more explicit, more brazenly displayed than in this BUDDHIST COUNTRY of ours!!! The first HOAX is the Government promising FREE MEDICINE, FREE HOSPITALIZATION to its cit