Tiny Bhutan, which has earned the epithet of being the “happiest place on earth” as per the new concept of Gross National Happiness....

Foreign Employment Minister Thalatha Athukorale was offered the ‘Woman of the Year’ award at the Top “50” Professional and Career Women....

Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara, in an interview with Daily Mirror, elaborates about the formation of a new govt. under the leadership of.....

On Friday July 28, 2017, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was forced to resign as Prime Minister of Pakistan after the....

Patron client politics, informal social networks and corruption have been mostly responsible for the weakening of rule-based....

The year 1931 marked a milestone in the history of Sri Lanka, with women receiving the right to vote and get involved....

Though the United States isolationist President Donald Trump and his business associates are cynically dismissing climate....

The most peaceful countries in the world are Iceland, Portugal, Austria, New Zealand and Denmark, according to the.....

With fuel supplies being gradually restored to normal by yesterday evening, there appeared to be widespread public support for the national unity government’s decision to crack down and issue a gazette notification declaring fuel supplies as an

Etymologically, Jerusalem means ‘the foundation of peace’. But Jerusalem, one of the oldest cities in the world, has seen enough wars and violence and more will be its lot in the future, too. Clashes since July 14 in the nearly 5,000-year

National List MP Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera, who played a pivotal role in the election of President Maithripala Sirisena, speaks about the constitution making process and what should be done

Thirty four years ago on 24 July 1983, a Sunday that triggered an organised pogrom against Tamil people and set Colombo and its suburbs on fire the next morning, Senior Thondaman Saumyamoorthi was to tell a then Madras audience that in Sri Lanka, &ld

The motive behind shooting at the Policemen providing security to Jaffna High Court Judge Manikkavasagar Ilanchezian is not clear yet.  One of the Policemen injured i

Dudley Senanayake vehemently opposed a proposal by JR to a grand coalition with SLFP in government. Ceylon National Congress was dominated by politicians of Victorian vintage who followed the principles of liberal democracy of the era of Gladstone

It appeared to be a politically malefic time for Foreign Affair Minister Ravi Karunanayake. Hot on the heels of revelations against him during the proceedings of the Presidential Commission investigating the Bond scam the other day, he was in for a

Our sister newspaper Sunday Lankadeepa met with the Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Dr. Rajitha Senarathna two days after the government acquired the Malabe Neville Fernando Hospital. At the time Sunday Lankadeepa sat down to

There’s a singular vacancy in this country, according to some. Ranil Amirtthiah of the popular local band ‘Black,’ whenever he speaks and in whatever forum he chooses to do so, is often poetic but sometimes he flushes subtlety dow

The Government has decided to ban the use of polythene and rigifoam from September as one of the measures to reduce the quantity of garbage countrywide and as a measure to protect the environment. 

At the very outset, allow me to draw your attention to an oversight in my previous column on ‘Who represents the real SLFP’. In the 8th paragraph I write thus: “The passage of the 19th Amendment...” It should read as the &ld

Mindfulness has taken the world by storm.  From Hollywood’s Hugh Jackman to farmers in South Africa call it the new age panacea that heals the mind. That’s more than 2500 years after the practice was originated in the East, with its

Leading Buddhist monk Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thera, who works with the nationalist groups, speaks about the present status of politics in the country and what he envisages. Here are the excerpts of the interview:   

On June 16, 2017, Chinese road construction workers accompanied by Chinese troops began moving into the tri-junction of Doko-Lam where the....

In the recent history of this country, repeated failure by successive governments to address proactively incipient threats and peripheral....

It seems to have become customary for the yahapalana government to make significant gestures towards compliance with the demands....

By putting up of a Dalit, Ram Nath Kovind, as its candidate for the Indian Presidency and ensuring his victory with a 65% majority, the Bharatiya...

Minister of National Co-existence, Dialogue and Official Languages Mano Ganeshan, in an interview with....

Thirty four years after ‘Black July’, Sri Lanka today has many good reasons to believe that what happened in 1983 will not happen.....

This year marks the 34th anniversary of the July riots of 1983 which reshaped the socio political history of our nation forever. Many still....

Harvard Professor and International relations guru, Joseph Nye, coined the term to coincide with the fall of Soviet Union providing the United States....

A leading private sector business chamber will be holdings its annual ‘economic’ summit yet again this week. The event will provide Sri Lanka’s...