While the Sri Lankan government ignored the warning by India’s foreign intelligence agency of the possibility of Islamic terrorist attacks here, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it appears, is going to be an unexpected beneficiary of the Easter

As news broke out last Sunday that multiple blasts in Sri Lanka had killed and injured hundreds, the country’s officials announced that social media would be blocked to avoid the spread of rumours and disinformation.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner once said: “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it!!!” No words could describ

As Sri Lanka looks to pick up the pieces and rebuild a shattered nation following a series of suicide bombings, its citizens now ponder on the thought unlike never before as to what holds in store for them in the future.

Easter is celebrated as a day of hope, life and end to violence. But this Easter day has been marred by violence and death on a large scale. We categorically condemn the brutal Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels around Sri Lanka. We convey

The Easter Sunday bombings that killed nearly 300 innocent people, mostly worshippers celebrating Easter, came as a rude shock to the Muslim community. Muslim families watched in disbelief as the events unfolded and the finger was pointed at ‘Islam

It was a calculated massacre. This is terrorism and nothing else that nobody could and should tolerate. It must be rooted out forthwith. Are the Easter Sunday massacres in three churches in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa and three leading tourist

Questions will keep racing through everyone’s minds. Why Sri Lanka? Why now? Why churches and hotels? Why was Sri Lanka targeted and why was it done? Our harrowing history of war, conflict and polarisation, is again on the knife edge and may tak

Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam Centre for International Studies in Singapore, says that the serial bombings in Colombo and two other towns in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, appear to be the handiwork of the Islam

On December 26 last year, scores of Buddhist statues in Mawanella were vandalized. A Criminal Investigation Department (CID)investigation led to the arrest of seven suspects, including one who was caught by the locals, allegedly while undertaking the

The co-operatives (Known as Multi-Purpose Cooperative Societies-MPCS) in the North have gained significant funds through the Budgets for 2018 and 2019. These allocations totalling over Rs 2.5 billion....

The Daily Mirror grieves for over 200 Sri Lankans who fell victim to multiple terrorist attacks yesterday. We stand with the loved ones of the victims in this most tragic moment.....

After months as volunteer activists demanding that U.S. President Donald Trump be impeached, Eileen and Michael O’Brien sat on their couch on Thursday, cracked open a laptop and began to read the 448-page special counsel.....

‘Aadara Sevana’ (Abode of Love) in Anuradhapura is a social service cum prayer centre run by the Methodist Church in Sri Lanka. It is located a few kilometres away from the Anuradhapura town at a place called Kundichchaankulama in Sinhala and Ku

The Easter, the peak of Christian festivities, is celebrated around the same time that Buddhists and Hindus of our own country celebrate their New Year. In fact tonight, during the Easter Vigil,

“To live up to their human rights obligations, governments have a duty to protect the rights of their citizens by accelerating the full implementation of the WHO FCTC” – Laurent Huber, Director US Action on Smoking and Health.

Although Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa who is also the de-facto leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has been claiming that the SLPP has not decided on its Presidential candidate, many other political parties and media.....

The Sinhala and Tamil New Year has much to offer in terms of traditions which the dominant majority of this country boast of. Some practise these traditions with awareness while a good number of them merely go through the motions.

Thanks to the Chairman and members of the Elections Commission (EC), it is proved beyond doubt these much touted “Independent” Commissions are there at the expense of “taxpayer money” to play politics with the ruling government.

Did we see the hand of fascism in last week’s arrest of Julian Assange, the co-founder of the whistleblower portal WikiLeaks? Is democracy a charade in Britain, despite it being the repository of the mother of all parliaments?

The Sinhalese (Buddhists) and the Tamils (Hindus) in Sri Lanka celebrated the Astrological New Year on Sunday with traditional religious observances and the attendant fun and games creating a sense of entertainment and bonhomie among friends, neighbo

Much has been made of politicians who worship at the Tirumala Tirupati Balaji Temple in Andra Pradesh, India. The photos of bare-bodied politicians at worship have invited much comment in social media and much of it has been negative.

Change as a universal phenomenon is vastly understated; its effects, specifically of short-term genre, are not felt by a great majority in the human family; its long-term effects are left for historians to pen on paper long after the said changes hav

Our country is once again poised on the brink of political anarchy, the Foreign Minister himself has been sent to negotiate bringing the biggest Drug King Pin back to the country!!! Could not the law, the international laws have been applied here to

‘Being baked alive’ perhaps best described the Sri Lankan’s experience during this Sinhala and Hindu New Year. As mercury rose mercilessly, the countrymen went through the warmest New Year in recent times and though there were regular evening s

With reference to above title news item in the Daily Mirror of April 9, in which the President is reported to have said that people should not be divided according to their spoken languages, and that all politicians of this pertinent question to be a

The unrelenting drought that had laid waste to tens of thousands of acres of crops in many districts as well as the loathed power and water cuts did not seem to have dampened the vigour with which our islanders celebrate their most cherished national

Tomorrow, Sri Lanka’s people rise beyond racial or religious differences, class or caste differences to celebrate the National New Year, known as Aluth Avurudda in Sinhala or Puthandu in Tamil. January 1 is only a calendar change based on Gregorian

Roughly, one in eight people are eligible to vote in elections that started on Thursday in India.The seven-phase vote to elect a new lower-house of Parliament will continue till May 19. With 900 million voters, the polls are a testament to India’s

The Southerners in Sri Lanka paying homage to Sanda Deiyo [lunar deity] on the first appearance of the moon in the New Year in anticipation of affluence is an age-old practice. The above Sigiri graffiti of the 9th century as translated by Prof. Paran