The statement made by Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya on the controversial SupemeSAT satellite popularly known as “Chichi’s Rocket” has put the leaders of and the supporters of the National People’s Power (NPP) in a tight spot.

At the November 2024 elections, the NPP won a supermajority. The party secured 159 seats in the 225-member Parliament.

My grandson Hazim Shiraz, a Grade 3 student at Asoka College, Colombo 10 was eager to experience firsthand how traditional postal delivery works.

The third installation of the bi-annual periodical The Ceylon Journal certainly continues the success of the two previous issues. Edited by Avishka Mario Senewiratne, The Ceylon Journal was first launched in July 2024. This unique journal, which in t

A decade ago, on March 12, 2015, while commissioning in Mauritius the gleaming Offshore Patrol Vessel Barracuda, built in Garden Reach, Kolkata, to Mauritian specifications, Prime Minister Modi outlined India’s policy towards the Indian Ocean Regio

Youth are one of our major assets. This is why our hearts melt when we see unemployed youth playing cricket during daytime when elsewhere youth in large numbers are either at university or serving institutions as employees. Any government must have

Journalists are a species designed to transform themselves into a medium that conveys to news-starved people what they see, hear, smell, taste, feel, and understand—enabling those who consume their news to make informed decisions and sound judgemen

A few articles have appeared in your newspaper regarding protecting Sri Lanka’s Leopards. I fully agree that the Sri Lanka’s Leopards must be protected. Unfortunately, leopards go into human habitations in search of food, their favourites being

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ordered the temporary suspension of two proposed wind power plants in the Mannar area, a 20 MW facility and a 50 MW project despite tenders being called and contracts already awarded. Mannar has become vulnerable t

In 1935 under the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, the cultivation and use of cannabis was criminalised by the British, the colonial rulers of our country. However, cannabis has been used in Sri Lanka for traditional medicine and culinar

Parliamentarian Harsha de Silva, SJB’s economic czar, has gone viral on X, formerly Twitter. In a post with nearly 485,000 views as of yesterday, he says: “called out the Govt in @ParliamentLK for mocking India’s bold stand against Trump’s tr

During my visit to the United Kingdom, I came across a customer care initiative in UK supermarkets where they provided a free notice board for customers to place adverts .....buy, sell, or give away items or wanted items. This not only helped cust

This year is a particularly melancholy one as it marks the twentieth death anniversary of my father, Lakshman Kadirgamar and the first death anniversary of my mother, Angela.

As the world races to decarbonise its energy systems, renewable energy projects have emerged as both a solution to climate change and a source of new environmental controversy.

The first thorny issue that the National People’s Power (NPP) government encountered was a shortage and price hike of rice. The first news item on the matter was carried in the Daily Mirror barely a week after NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as

In the wake of the post-pandemic tourism boom, there is also mounting backlash against an excess of tourism in many countries. When too many tourists flock to a destination, exceeding its ability to manage it sustainably, it leads to negative impacts

In a landmark judgment that underscores the primacy of environmental governance, Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has overruled a 2011 decision by the Court of Appeal that mandated approval of a magnetite mining project by private partnership Uva Magnetit

Last Thursday (August 7th) morning, at the Peoples Bank near my residence, I saw a young man – clearly confident and capable – turned away by the lady teller simply because he was under 18. His cheque was refused to be encashed. He walked out dis

As of August 2025, six months into Donald Trump’s second term as US President, his approval ratings hover between 37% and 50% across national polls, reflecting a polarized public despite legislative successes like the “Big Beautiful Bill” and w

The article by a hitherto unknown writer, Krishnapillai, contains several serious factual errors regarding the matters raised by columnist DBS Jeyaraj. First of all, the writer knowingly or unknowingly fails to acknowledge that S.J.V. Chelvanayakam a

The launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 by the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War shattered American confidence in its technological dominance and exposed the fragility of U.S. propaganda. In response, the United States accelerated its effort

The United Kingdom and Canada informed our government that a new resolution on Sri Lanka would be presented at the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council next month. Resolution 46/1, adopted on March 23, 2021, established an accountability proce

I don’t know the legality behind my act of writing about the nature of operations of the Department of Examinations in accordance with the Examination Act.

Sri Lanka’s elephants are more than majestic creatures; they are living symbols of our heritage, biodiversity, and the deep spiritual and cultural ties we share with the natural world. Yet today, elephants face one of their gravest threats, not fro

Among the various responses to the government’s move to scrap pension and other perks provided to the former Presidents and Parliamentarians, the reaction of Nandana Gunathilaka, former provincial council member and member of parliament of the Ja

Just over a dozen years ago, we had the whole country laughing due to claims that an infamous son of a well-known father had a hand in putting a satellite into space via a company –Supreme SAT. Sadly, this satellite went missing, quite like variou

Your article about the politicians pensions are ‘spot on’ and my hats off to that.

July-August could be the best months to visit Sri Lanka. The Kandy Esala Pageant is in progress and attracting both local and foreign tourists in their numbers. This is the time of the year when the government must provide all facilities for tourists

In one of his celebrated poems, the famous Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi said, “Let’s destroy the world, if a single person cannot find food.” Reflecting moral urgency and responsibility, he also wrote, “If the young go hungry without food,

Youth representing several youth clubs gathered in front of the Maharagama Youth Services Council urging the government to avoid politicising youth clubs. To begin with, these youth clubs were defunct in most areas of the country for the longest time