This is sheer common sense. No law, no bill passed in Parliament without any opportunity for people to feel an ownership to, will even be implemented the right way and efficiently too. 

With more than 330 municipal councils, urban councils and pradeshiya sabhas likely to go to the polls on January 20 next year...

JVP MP Bimal Rathnayake spoke about the much looked forward to provincial council elections, the SAITM...

As the three pieces of legislation, amending the Municipal Councils Ordinance, the Urban Council Ordinance and...

Those supporters of the Yahapalana Regime whose apologies have diminished to the point they take refuge in what...

Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara asks “Simply show us how the Tamils are being discriminated against and....

Pradesheeya Sabhas became a devolved subject under the Provincial Councils in the Local Government system of Sri Lanka. This mechanism of local government was introduced in 1987 through the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

Under the Constitution any citizen who is qualified to be elected to the office of President may be nominated by a recognized political party (Article 31) elected by the people (Art (30-2) and hold office for a period of six years.

The movie Padmavati, based on a semi-mythical Sinhala princess, who married an Indian king, has already done what once appeared to be impossible.   

A top British official, who was in Sri Lanka in view of Galle Dialogue at the invitation of Sri Lanka Navy, speaks, about the global importance of Sri Lanka’s strategic positioning and the expansion of China’s trading activities.

We celebrated the World Children’s Day on the first of October. A few days later, we celebrated the conquests of the child soldiers who went to the Scholarship battle and emerged with high marks.

Migration is at the forefront of global debates on the directions of social and economic development. Yet, migration has been central to human evolution since humankind walked the planet and is deeply rooted in our collective history.

On Saturday, President Maithripala Sirisena, who was attending a Tamil language event at Hindu College, Jaffna was greeted by protesters demanding the release of suspects held in custody under the Prevention

Deputy Minister of Policy Planning and Economic Development Dr. Harsha de Silva, in an interview with , said that the Government is well positioned to implement its economic delivery plan. He added that the United National Party (UNP) is ready to con

Joint Opposition’s Parliamentary Group Leader Dinesh Gunawardane, in an interview with , spoke about the current status related to the constitution making process and how his side braces for the Local Government Elections, expected to be declar

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe must be applauded for volunteering to appear before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the alleged Central Bank Bond scam to “clarify any matters with regard to the references made to him at t

With the forced exit of Bangladesh Supreme Court Chief Justice, Surendra Kumar Sinha, over the 16th Constitutional Amendment (16A) which gives parliament power to sack a higher court judge with a two-thirds majority, the issue of the independence of

I am not an expert like Dr. Dayan Jayatillaka (DJ) with Doctorates in International Politics. I am an old salt, who was in active service from the beginning to the end of the war. While reading

It seems a long time ago, in the heady days of the US presidential campaign in 2008, a black American -Senator Barack Obama....

Not long ago, soon after the war, a common refrain about the Jaffna society was how hard working, thrifty and prudent its people....

The interim report of the Parliamentary Steering Committee for Constitutional Amendments has caused a stir in all quarters concerned....

I woke up late last morning. Usually morning dawns on me quite early. For some the wee hours are the most miserable part of the day, while for others the most exciting and vibrant time before sunset as it is for me. Writing at that time, early hours,

With Sri Lanka still suffering from some of its worst natural disasters during the past two years, there was much significance for our country in yesterday’s United Nations International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction. This event was starte

In the Cold War days, some of us used to say, “Better red than dead”- to rebuff those who believed in nuclear deterrence as a way of political life that gave them security.

When the famous American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow inspired people to persevere by “striking with all your might while the iron is hot”, he would not even had a nightmare of how some Sri Lankan trade unions would strike with all the

The Nobel Committee by awarding this year’s Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has reiterated the danger nuclear weapons pose to life on earth. The message is timely, given the fact that the world is at

Coca-Cola Youth Speak Forum, powered by AIESEC, will be held on October 14 at Trace Expert City in Colombo 10 from 8.30 am onwards. 

The media coverage of controversial issues, especially ethnically sensitive issues is sometimes strange with some media institutions or journalists preferring to suppress certain stories, despite their significance being high in a national perspectiv

In 1988, not too long before the United National Party was to lose the five-sixths Parliamentary majority it enjoyed (and therefore more than the two-thirds required to amend the constitution, barring of course those which required in addition a re

With a huge allocation of more than Rs.100 billion being made for education in the Appropriation Bill presented in Parliament on Monday, the Government needs to go beyond money or certificates of qualifications and focus more on the values of chara