President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to set up a National Economic Council (NEC) which will become the apex body tasked...

Most people in Sri Lanka don’t think about global domination,” says Sanjiva Weerawarana, the Founder, CEO and Chief Architect of...

Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka stated in April that beggars in Colombo city will be removed....

The number thirteen is generally seen by large sections of the populace as being unlucky. And so it came to be in the town of....

The economy in the north is in crisis. Youth unemployment is high, rural incomes are irregular and devastating indebtedness is....

 It all started during the tail-end of Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s 1960-64 rule. The two Bandaranaike’s close ties with Peking’s Communist leaders encouraged them to donate an International Conference Hall in commemoration, especia

Supportive marriages, leading to nurturing environments for families, are the building blocks of our society.  

Today we mark the United Nation’s World Humanitarian Day to pay tribute to aid workers or first respondents who risk their lives in humanitarian space and to rally support for people affected by crises around the world. 

Does President Donald Trump (aka Fire and Fury) know what a nuclear war would be like? I ask the question because President Roland Reagan confessed he did not until he decided to look at some movies (once an actor, he was a cinema man), like “O

Foreign Affairs Minister Ravi Karunanayake resigned from his Ministerial post on August 10 following pressure exerted by members...

An organised crowd of around thousand men and women met in the shadow of the Buddha statue in the Vihara Maha Devi Park....

State Minister of Finance Eran Wickramaratne, in an interview with Daily Mirror, speaks about the future economic plan...

The present ‘Yahapalana Government’ completed a period of two and half years. But as the Government passed its two-year mark...

Race-based politics wins votes and politicians know that well. Nothing can assert this political truism than the much....

Two years after the decisive general elections which led to the two major parties forming a National Unity Government for the.....

Minister of Social Empowerment S.B. Dissanayake, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, spoke about the political situation in the country following the resignation of MP Ravi Karunanayake from his post as Foreign Affairs Minister. Excerpts of the

Sri Lankan President’s statement that no party or group can form a Government without his “blessings”, even if it is shown that the opposition has 113 members - which is an uphill task - may lead to a constitutional crisis and con

The words of the once Australian opposition leader Andrew Peacock, ‘’Dracula in charge of the blood bank’’ were occasioned by the appointment of Mic Young, a former minister who had been exposed as having sold state secrets

During the past few years, in most cities and suburbs, unprecedented traffic congestion has driven Sri Lanka into a multitude of crises. Of these the worst is air pollution. Most people are inhaling instead of exhaling carbon dioxide. That is perha

Days after former Foreign Affairs Minister Ravi Karunanayake’s resignation, the United National Party (UNP), which he represents, is at pain to control the damage to its credibility. It comes out with the argument that even a Minister is now

Hilarious! Can you name the Magazine that featured Karunanayake as the best Finance Minister of the Year 2017?   

The political world is like a burning inferno. These comments were made by Minister of Justice and Buddha Sasana Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha during an interview with Sunday Lankadeepa where he commented on the present situation of the Government. He is o

The weekly evidence of the unprecedentedly dependent, servile character of the Yahapalana administration came in the form of a report in the prestigious Hindu by its smart, Colombo based correspondent Meera Srinivasan. Captioned ‘India keen t

What happened to the huge outcry that prevailed in the country a few weeks ago against the killer disease, dengue? The entire government was agog with finding solutions to the rapid spread of the disease days ago while media too had focused its ful

Sri Lanka, once identified at a time known granary of the East, is now almost reliant on imported food items. The unfolding....

Seventy years ago, on August 15 ,1947, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, made his epoch making “Tryst with Destiny”....

Senior Lecturer of Mass Communication Professor Ajantha Hapuarachchi of the Colombo University Journalism Unit in a recent....

Recently, many folks were bragging about our strategic location astride the key maritime routes in the Indian Ocean....

Charlottesville, Virginia did what others could not. It has jolted the otherwise insipid Grand Old Party from its slumber to....

Overall the widely-predicted but yet dramatic resignation of Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake last Thursday appears to have....