Self-interest becomes a very strong force when your life is threatened. Collectively, we enforce laws that protect the lives of all members of a community, individually we act with defensive force to protect ones own life.

The United National Party (UNP) is passionate about the construction of the Central Expressway. The project was organinally planned during the former rule, but its work got underway after the new government assumed office.   

Will the mandate of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the Alleged Central Bank Bond scam be allowed to lapse without key witnesses being called?  

Machiavelli said that the enterprise entailing the deadliest risk in politics is to try to institute a new order, and to be a new ruler while doing so (“a new prince in a new principality”). 

The 21st Congress of the Communist Party was held on Friday, September 29 at the Shalika Hall, Narahenpita, Colombo. Former Minister and the General Secretary of the Communist Party D.E.W. Gunasekera delivered the keynote address.

Germany’s seat of education and cultural capital Saxony is also dubbed the Jewel of Europe for its heritage and unlimited natural beauty.  

Veddas, said to be descendants of King Vijaya, are known to be the earliest inhabitants of this land. Referring to themselves as forest-dwellers, the Vedda communities are shrouded in secrecy, mythology and mystery than any other group of people in

Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom and Minister for Asia and the Pacific   - UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office 

A great deal of phobia has been generated throughout the world about refugees and immigrants. Both in the West and the East, refugees are seen as an unbearable economic burden, as job snatchers, environmental and cultural polluters and as terrorists.

“My question to all people’s representatives in the legislature and key public officials is this. Was the legislation, referred to by the former Minister, brought to Parliament? Was it passed? If not what statutory measures exist through

Eighty-three-year-old Gnanatheepam (Gethsie) Shanmugam, a Sri Lankan teacher and a psychosocial counsellor, who counselled war widows and orphans, was one of the six winners to win the Ramon Magsaysay Awards, considered to be Asia’s equivalent

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has remarked during a recent visit to a public school in Colombo, that his government would soon introduce a 21st century education system. What that education system entails is not yet clear, and, many past reform

An ASP attached to the Hambantota Police Division was caught on camera last Thursday assaulting a man during a protest led by the joint opposition against the leasing of the loss-making Mattala Airport, with the video going viral in the mainstream el

Next month our Finance Minister will present this country’s budget to parliament. It is the country’s financial plan for the....

As is well known, corruption has become a pervasive social issue in the country in recent years, cutting across all segments....

October is analogous with political upheavals and cataclysmic political events from Mahatma Gandhi’s birth, Indira Gandhi’s....

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly recently, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that sovereignty....

Recent reports estimate that India’s annual economic growth rate is now down to 5.5%. The government of Narendra Modi which until recently seemed to be on a public opinion roll could fall off its log- but that depends on the Indian electorate e

With the highest priority being given to education, Sri Lanka yesterday joined the international community in celebrating “World Teacher’s Day” on the theme “Teaching in Freedom, Empowering Teachers”.   

The government today will launch a food production week as a vital aspect of the sustainable economic strategy outlined in Vision 2025 and to consolidate the foundation for a just, peaceful and all-inclusive society.  

Whenever the discourse on Constitution-making came to fore during the past two decades, the bone of contention was the nature of the state with the Tamils wanting a federal mode of governance and the Sinhalese insisting on a unitary state.

Former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva, who petitioned the Supreme Court against the newly enacted Provincial Councils Elections (Amendment) Act, in an interview with the Dailymirror  aired his views about its consequences. Followin

“These are Muslim ‘terrorists’ who have killed Buddhist monks. Sri Lanka is not for them. They should be sent out immediately,” shouted protesting Buddhist monks who broke into the UNHCR safe house sheltering 31 Rohingya refug

Violence begets violence.  Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword.  It does not mean that the 59 people who died at the Las Vegas concert shooting and those who were injured in the worst ever mass shooting in the United States,

It is still puzzling for many in political circles whether the government will opt for a referendum on the proposed new Constitution or conduct the elections to the local authorities first. What will come first? That is the question being asked by

Hyderabad: Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis sought to emphasize a positive future for Indo-Lanka ties, adding that trade between the neighbours must be encouraged.

The Mahanayaka of the Malwatte Chapter, the Most Venerable Tibbotuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thera has made an interesting pronouncement. Referring to the fact that President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had 

Sri Lanka marked World Youth Day on October 1 by launching several important long-term programmes, perhaps the most important being the provision of life and health insurance for some 4.5 million children in about 11,000 schools countrywide. &

At the moment when proposals for drafting a new Constitution or amending the present Constitution are underway, it would be extremely relevant to understand the true face (nature) of the present Constitution, since it is from this premise that we w

Politics is scarcely pure. Its intrinsic quality of being sinister and cynical is concealed by its practitioners; without that concealment, the drama is disgustingly gross; its heroes and heroines are plain culprits of the worst kind.