As we celebrate the National New Year which marks the new journey of the sun from Pisces to Aries, in many parts of the world there are also events to mark the National Safe Motherhood Week. What the sun is to the Solar System including our Pl

The CID last week took into custody the Commissioner of Prisons Department (Rehabilitation) Emil Ranjan Lamahewa and Police Anti Narcotics Bureau inspector Newamal  Rangajeewa on suspicion over the alleged shooting incident within Welikada Pri

Nobody would contest the view aired by President Maithripala Sirisena on the need to amend the Local Government Elections Act again in order to reduce the number of local government members from 8,000 to 4,000. Speaking to the Editors and heads of me

Sri Lanka is making another first in the world. This is the only government on the whole planet, of which the ministers and MPs who voted for a no confidence motion against its own prime minister, and by extension the government, can stick to their p

If there’s really nothing ‘new’ to be ‘discerned’ in the recent popular culture here, it’s not because the artistes don’t want to try out something new, but because audiences are so easily captivated by the f

The World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrated its landmark 70th anniversary on Saturday with World Health Day events being held in almost all...

Recent reports that the Ecuadoran government has blocked internet / phone access and disallowed visitors to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – who has....

The 3rd no confidence motion in the Sri Lankan legislature ended up with the Prime Minister  winning , perhaps the most difficult obstacle in his....

The promise of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is bold: that all people can access quality health services, when and where they need them, without....

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~Sun Tsu, Ancient Chinese Military strategist  

World Health Day is celebrated worldwide, every year on April 7. This day, initiated and funded by the World Health organization, has the main intention of raising awareness on important topics in the global health, throughout the world. This year, t

Addressing the first media conference after Wednesday’s no-confidence motion which produced conflicts within conflicts, divisions within divisions and crises within crises, President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday he did not get directly i

Personally I’m a coward. I’m unlikely ever to be a hero. (I have rescued on different occasions three young children from drowning, but I didn’t risk my life.) I certainly would never have done what Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, the Fren

Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) President Sunil Chandrakumara in an interview with the  spoke about the UNHRC process. 

The union of the two major parties or rather coalitions led by the two major parties that have ruled the country since Independence was a first when it happened in January 2015.

Dr. Chandima Wijegunawardena is a visiting lecturer at the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh. She was a student of Anula Vidyalaya, Colombo and did her higher studies as a medical student in Manipal, Malaysia. 

The messy situation arisen in many Local Government bodies after the February 10 elections for them had so far been eclipsed by the No-Confidence Motion (NCM) presented by the Joint Opposition against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore of Fahrenheit 911 fame once advised the Palestinians to give up violence and adopt non-violence as a means of protests.

The Diyawanna Reality Show came to a happy ending for UNP and PM Wickremesinghe two days ago on the night of Wednesday 04 April 2018.

Tomorrow April 5 is the 47th anniversary of the 1971 youth insurrection by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and it came in the aftermath or afterglow of the tumultuous parliamentary debate yesterday on the no-confidence motion against Prime Mini

Way back in the 16th century, there lived a man in Cambridge, England by the name of Thomas Hobson. He rented and sold horses and was the proud owner of a stable that had 40 stallions of all breeds. Anyone who wanted to rent a horse from him to rid

Japan was virtually razed to the ground when an American B-29 bomber dropped the atomic bomb over its city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In the attack, 80,000 people perished, and in addition, a large number of people killed subsequently due to rad

Battles are fundamentally different from wars although the two terms are often used as though they are synonyms. They are different and this is why sometimes people say ‘the battle was won, but not the war.’  

Commencing his submissions before the Criminal Justice Commission for defense in arguably the biggest criminal case in Sri  Lanka, the ‘main trial’ (maha naduwa) of leaders of the 1971 insurgency,

Amid confusion and conflicting reports with different parties having different agendas and vested interests, Parliament will today take up the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The joint opposition which presented th

From the time he entered the chambers of State Council of Ceylon in 1943, J. R. Jayewardene (JR) had been branded as a Reactionary Capitalist.

1. Moving away from the usual banal political repertoire let us concentrate on other things, for a change!!! I read a refreshingly different article in the Ceylon Daily News of 27th March ‘HONOUR AMONG THE CORRUPT’ but the blurb is what

Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Puravesi Balaya Co-convener Gamini Viyangoda said that if this no confidence motion has been brought in because of the alleged Bond Scam there is no justification for it. 

Citing a number of reasons including the alleged involvement in the alleged Central Bank Bond Scam, the Joint Opposition members recently signed a no confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The Joint Opposition said that they

The story about a student in Mullaitivu who had committed suicide after having failed in the last year’s GCE Ordinary Level examination was overshadowed by the success stories of many students in various other parts of the country and the obses