Health aspects of vegetarianism or veganism and therefore a more healthy and more compassionate society, were the theme of the second Asian Buddhist animal rights conference held in Colombo yesterday, co-hosted by the Sri Lanka branch of the Californ

If moral decadence is defined as doing a shameful act and being proud about it, then Britain under Prime Minister Theresa May is an embodiment of moral decadence.

National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa is in a midst of a controversy over his remarks that Parliament should be bombed in case it approves a Constitution based on the interim report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assem

“We have decided to include the responses of political parties in the interim report so that MPs could study them before coming for the debate.

Dr Asanga Welikala is a Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Edinburgh and the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law

Teddy Ameresekere offers a pithy and pertinent elaboration of the meaning of dementia: ‘The former regime has forgotten why they were chased out and the present can’t remember why they were elected.’   

With the intensification of public pressure, the government reached a point beyond which it cannot delay the elections to the local authorities. As such, the government leaders met at Temple Trees on Tuesday evening with Prime Minister Ranil Wickre

“Neither my life of luxury in the palace, nor my life as an ascetic in the forest were paths to enlightenment,” Gauthama Buddha had once said. Hence, by giving up on worldly pleasures, one can end the journey in Samsaara.

When the then President J.R. Jayewardene held a referendum instead of general elections in 1982, most legal and political analysts said that while it may have been legal, it was illegitimate. Mr. Jayewardene’s Government obtained a 50.1% majo

Mahinda Rajapakse [MR] is the front-runner in an opposition soft on the government. Appears overcome, by the enormity of his personal problems. Best way to negative is to be at the helm of politics.

Rahul Gandhi is a type of young man one meets near a small stream, perched on a rock with a fishing rod or seated under a tree writing poetry. A soft hearted romantic, la Byron.  

Who is the inspirer and driver of the new Constitution project? It certainly wasn’t the “foreign devil”--those wicked ole western imperialists. 

?Minister of Labour, Trade Union Relations and Sabaragamuwa Development John Seneviratne in an interview with our sister paper ‘Deshaya’ spoke about groups in the Government that are frustrating others and his love for the SLFP.

2358 years of the Sri Lankan Kings that rule fell on March 2, 1815 due to the coup of the Chieftains headed by “Ehalapola” who signed the disputed historic and decisive Convention to hand over the country and powers of governance to the c

The Executive Summary of a new report contests the government’s demilitarization process and reveals, ‘Mullaithivu district, with a population of 130,000 has an estimated 60,000 security forces, giving it an extremely steep (1:2) force to

Sri Lankans suffer as consumers in dealing with prices, quality, presentation and hygiene of food, introduction of harmful dyes, preservatives, flavours and additives to them, warranties in electronic goods, quality of building material, sales, lease

Sri Lankans were not known to be a cruel, yet instances of outright wickedness are now rearing their ugly heads. 

Recently Buddhist High Priests have been showing a rather unholy penchant to torment the government, perhaps making use of the opportunity that no one is now calling from the President’s House to threaten with ‘Sanga Bedaya’ (divisi

  Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Leader Rauff Hakeem in an interview with the  spoke about the current political situation in the country and added that he was cautiously optimistic about the status of the constitution making process. Following

The latest issue of our sister paper Sunday Times carried a news item which quoted the Auditor General’s Department as saying that the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) was still holding on to a balance of more than Rs.3.2 billion

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s speech in Washington on Wednesday (18) where he named China as the cause for the US’s intensified interest in the Indian Ocean, and as the reason for its deepening defence ties with India, has broug

President Xi Jinping opening the 19th Communist Party Congress and imminent to be re-elected as President of China and the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, stood in front of nearly 2300 party delegates and delivered a speech that spanned 3 ho

After the Unity Government was formed in 2015, the President and Prime Minister on realizing that the Tamil issue needs to be resolved first for the country is to go forward, had turned the parliament into a Constitutional Assembly. 

The month of October is of special significance world-wide. It commemorates the overthrow of the Tsar in Russia and the first attempt to install a worker controlled state in what was then imperial Russia, which was renamed the Soviet Union.

Benjamin Franklin thought that one could never avoid death and taxes. However if you meet death, then you don’t have to pay taxes. Perhaps we may avert one because of the other.   

In a major step towards building a just, fair and all-inclusive society, the National Government yesterday launched a historic Gramashakthi People’s Movement with the vision of alleviating poverty by 2030.   

Newspapers carried a picture of several Policemen risking their lives in saving a locomotive engine driver of the Sri Lanka Railways at the Fort Railway Station during a surprise strike on October 11 by the railway employees. 

Cambodia is no longer going forward, it is slipping backwards, as it has many times before. Earlier this month the government asked the Supreme Court to dissolve the main opposition coalition.

Parents of affected school children were on Monday successful before the Right to Information (RTI) Commission in obtaining the name lists and numbers of school children admitted to Grade One of Visakha Vidyalaya in 2014.

When Yohan called me, to ask me whether I could speak a few words at Devika de Alwis Perera’s memorial service, at first I was taken aback to be given such an honour but I was deeply touched to have been asked.