Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal in an interview with the Daily Mirror spoke about the Government’s Budget and its implications. The interview done with Cabraal follows. 

The late Justice C.G. Weeramantry, delivering the annual Lalith Athulathmudali Memorial Lecture in 2012 chose to speak on judicial ethics. He did refer to the key institutions of the state and how and why they need to be independent of one another,

Tomorrow December 1, we begin the Christmas season which has been commercialised to such an extent that some theologians are even suggesting that the name be changed, though the business world has already taken Christ out of Christmas and refers to

National Freedom Front leader MP Wimal Weerawansa in an interview with the Daily Mirror talked about the current political climate in the country and the plans afoot for the Local Government Elections. Following are excerpts of the interview done w

In an interview with Daily Mirror, United National Party (UNP) MP for the Puttalam district Hector Appuhamy speaks about the current status of the government and allegations against him about the Bond scam. He shared the following:

When Naomi Coleman says that she was “overwhelmed” by the Supreme Court Decision vindicating her rights and compensating her to the tune of Rs.800,000, one is hardly surprised. When foreigners, specially Brits visit Sri Lanka, they do n

Amid confusion, contradictory reports and chaos, the Elections Commission on Monday issued notice for nominations to 93 local councils. These are the councils where there are no multi-member wards and thereby are not covered by the interim stay ord

Maithripala Sirisena did his job. His job was not to win the Presidential Elections in January 2015. His was to leave his Party and its leader and the Executive President of the country at the time and challenge him at the elections.   

Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era in a historic redefinition of China’s current situation. This new era means more than China’s great leap from standing up to becoming rich and strong in the global and domesti

Once again, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has left his footsteps surely and firmly on the sands of time in our country’s political history. The first was, when he equaled the late Dudley Senanayake’s record of being Prime Minister o

The ever fragile democracy in Pakistan got a grievous blow on Monday, when the Federal Law Minister, Zahid Hamid, resigned after three minor radical Islamic outfits successfully blockaded Islamabad for three weeks even after he had conceded to their

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has referred to the Parliamentary Privileges Committee, a complaint about an alleged breach of privileges due to the disclosure of telephone conversations among  some government members of the Committee on Public Enterpri

State Minister of Finance Eran Wickramaratne, in an interview with , spoke about the future economic vision of the Government. Following are excerpts of the interview done with Minister Wikramaratne. 

The debate on the motion which began at 5.35 pm in the House of Representatives on February 24, 1959 under Prime Minister....

When the State fails, everything else tends to fail as well. This is what we observe around us today. Parliament does not enact urgent...

Two weeks before the Gujarat assembly polls, India is today at its worst as far as sanity is...

This month the Sri Lankan Government made bold and unequivocal promises to ensure all our individual human rights are....

It is an indelible fact that the lack of political will combined with fundamentally flawed Provisions of the 1972 and 1978 Constitutions and the mind – set framework of the majority community to share power with the Tamils stifled the Devolutio

What drives people to extremes? Why do the people behind Wahhabism, Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State (IS) get so charged up and angry?   

With a tsunami of sexual assault or harassment allegations being made by women against a large number of VIPs including United States President Donald Trump, entertainment bosses or stars and media group personalities, women’s leaders are calli

The Chairman of the Central Environment Authority (CEA) Prof. Lal Mervin Dharmasiri in an interview with the Daily Mirror discussed the implementation of the ban of polythene and the progress it had made so far in society. Excerpts:

The bloodless coup is being greeted with celebrations in Zimbabwe and recognition from around the world. But beware of empty revolutions that produce no democracy. 

Widespread speculation, contradictions and confusion along with questions as to who is trying to do what have arisen, after the Court of Appeal issued an interim stay order, on a gazette notification relating to delimitation.   

We Sri Lankans witnessed some serious issues in governance during the past month or two. Not that we were without issues and problems before.

Not too long ago before the American election unfolded and upset what was predicted to be a Hillary Clinton victory, I posted the following comment: “Clinton is a domestic dove and foreign policy dove.

The possibility of mending fences by the two factions of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) led by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena is quite remote, despite several people attempting to bring the two

Whether PM Ranil Wickremesinghe was ‘summoned’, ‘requested’ or he ‘volunteered’ to present himself before the PCoI (Presidential Commission of Inquiry) investigating the alleged Treasury Bond Scams is immaterial.&n

Anagreement between the UK and the Kandyan Chiefs of Ceylon titled, Kandyan Convention,was signed in 1815. The terms of the convention stipulated that the Kingdom of Kandy would be annexed to the British Empire, giving Britain total control 

The Presidential Task Force on Drug Prevention is the premier Sri Lankan interlocutor for evidence-based policy measures and community-based interventions to prevent and reduce harm caused by alcohol and other drugs. This institution comes under th

A so-called Commission on ‘The SAITM Crisis, and Deriving Solutions’, is in session these days at the OPA (Organization of Professionals Association) auditorium.