Nominations were closed at noon yesterday for the long delayed elections to 92 local councils. For the 248 other councils, nominations will be received from December 18 to 21.

JVP MP Vijitha Herath in an interview with Daily Mirror spoke about the current political situation in the country and his party’s novel way of approaching issues at hand. Following are excerpts of the interview done with Herath. 

Nominations for Local Government (LG) elections have been set for Monday, December 18 to Thursday, December 21. Before delimitations and carving out of new Wards and LG bodies, 335 LG bodies had 4,116 Councillors elected.

Even being a strong loyalist of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa has unusually taken a backseat at a time when his boss and mentor is going to face an election, the results of which might tu

During colonial rule in Ceylon, Buddhists and the Sasana suffered due to heightened activity by Missionaries. It’s in this backdrop that an attempt was made by foreign and local Buddhist intellectuals to embark on a campaign to establish Dham

R. M. Ranaweera who saw with his naked eyes the crash of the Indonesian owned Maritinnair aircraft on 4th December 1974 over the Seven Virgins Mountain range 

It is timely to consider Elections, politics and Legislators in pre-independence Ceylon as elections of one sort or another appear to have become a way of life in this country. Sri Lankan people hate postponement of elections—history records

Green Economy is a subject being talked about all over the globe. What is Green Economy has to be understood before debating about it. Most educated are aware of it and those not educated about Green Economy have to be educated. Getting on to 

Local government elections are typically held immediately after a major election. What typically happens is that the party winning the latter sweeps the former. In this sense the 

With the dangerously unpredictable United States President Donald Trump plunging the world closer to nuclear war in the Korean Peninsula and in the volatile Middle East, last Sunday’s warning by the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner needs to be s

Dr. Anula Wijesundere, a consultant physician involved with the work of the Nationalist Movement in Sri Lanka, speaks about the constitution making process, women’s rights and the impact of the price reduction of beer as proposed in the Budge

The war mentality represents an unfortunate confluence of ignorance, fear, prejudice, and profit. - Gabor Mate`

During the height of the war, the Tamil medium schools in the Central Province were filled with teachers from Jaffna or rather the Northern Province.   The Northern Tamil teachers dropped their pride, set aside the Sri Lankan Tamil-Indian

Congestion is something we take for granted these days. So much so that we cannot now imagine a world without it. Even a casual glance will show us that we live overcrowded lives. Drowning in a thick soup of human beings, vehicles, buildings, 

Minister of Sustainable Development and Wildlife and Minister of Buddhasasana Gamini Jayawickrama Perera in an interview with Lankadeepa aired his views on the present 

People - blame themselves in back peddling a lost leadership back to power. Think before you act stupidly - realize the folly in creating a situation of having no foreseeable future for the country you truly love: to whatever denomination you may b

Lord Naseby wishes to state the following with regard to the response attributed to the British High Commission in Colombo following a query raised by the Sri Lankan newspaper ‘The Island’, published on 6 December 2017 under the headline

Tentative results of the Nepalese Parliamentary elections suggest a massive victory for the Left Alliance comprising the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) led by Khadga Prasad Oli, and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) led

Last week, at a UNESCO organized conference to end impunity of crimes against journalists, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe found fault with lack of attendance by media personnel, and alleged that some media organizations and senior journalists we

If the Balfour Declaration of November 1917 permitting the setting up of a Jewish State of Israel on Palestinian lands turned the Middle East....

The change of regime on January 8, 2015 raised public expectations regarding good governance and socio-economic development. Yet, after...

Let me share with your readers some lunch time experiences in the Fort in mid 1960s. In 1967, working as an audit trainee at....

Every year, 25 November marks the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of all forms of Violence against Women and the....

The Association of Chiefs of Police (Rtd.) of Sri Lanka, an organization started in 2009 with those police officers who retired from the service holding the ranks of Deputy Inspector General of Police and above had its 10th Annual General Meeting on&

The legendary Nelson Mandela whose fourth death anniversary was commemorated on Tuesday, has said, “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” Elean

With the preparations by the political parties for the local government elections that are to be held in February being underway, a sense of insecurity can be seen in almost all parties, big or small, representing northern, southern, eastern or centr

UNESCO has over the decades contributed very much in establishing social acceptance for “the free flow of ideas by word and image” and thus works to foster free, independent and pluralistic media in print, broadcast and online, across the

Wednesday night’s decision by United States President Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, showing only utter contempt for the aspirations of the Palestinian people, has pushed the prospects for peace into a black hole,

Says  Convener of National Movement for a Just Society Prof. Sarath Wijesooriya referring to those representing the Joint Opposition and hoping to contest the upcoming elections under the ‘pohottuwa’ symbol

With corruption and specially political corruption continuing to spread like a cancer in Sri Lanka, tomorrow’s International Anti-Corruption Day needs to give important lessons to our politicians at all levels and from all parties.