Many thought the suave and sophisticated Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, had easy way up the political ladder being the son of a two time prime minister.

The blazing battle between United States President Donald Trump and the US media provides good headline lessons for Sri Lanka’s media....

Following adverse national and international media coverage of lynching of Muslims for eating beef or selling cattle for slaughter, India’s Prime Minister....

Though the Assistance to and Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses Act, No. 4 of 2015 was implemented last year, its performance....

Dikgang Moseneke was the former Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa. He was an unswerving judge who served in the Constitutional.....

Mangala Samaraweera, the new finance minister wants to open liquor shops on Poya Days. In an opinion poll in the Daily Mirror website....

Ahead of President Maithripala Sirisena’s visit to Bangladesh, Bangladeshi High Commissioner M. Riyaz Hamidullah, in an interview.....

Freedom of expression, right to a religion and attacks on minority religions have been in discussion within the last couple of days. It has raised....

The protests calling to close SAITM and their violent repression raise several questions. Is the Government’s insistence on....

We Sri Lankans appear to be a bunch of lotus eaters - living dreamy lives and indifferent to important issues which challenge us...

The United Nations is often scapegoat for the falling short of its peacekeeping troops and deployments. Why are they not in Syria or Yemen, Libya or along the Palestinian/Israeli border? 

In this era of microchips and digital technology, it is significant that the United Nations for the first time last Tuesday June 27, marked Micro- Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Day. This was because the UN says enterprises which generally employ

Behind the bear hug, one wonders, whether there were moves to outfox each other. By the looks of it, the awkward embrace between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Donald Trump underlined India’s endorsement of US h

While the Parliament unanimously passed an Amendment to the Office of the Missing Persons (OMP) Act last week, relatives of the Tamil people gone missing during the war between the security forces and the LTTE crossed the 120th day of their sit-in pr

About 50 years ago, the then Finance Minister Dr. N.M. Perera proposed that Sri Lanka should grow its own nutritious food and the people should cultivate their own home gardens instead of showing a preference for imported food....

Professor Siri Hettige secured his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Monash University, Australia in 1980. He functioned as the Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Colombo for nearly ten years, since 1987. After the establishment

“Today, words like ‘progress’ and ‘development’ have become interchangeable with economic ‘reforms’, ‘deregulation’ and ‘privatisation.........

Sri Lanka has had several disasters in the past, but yet to see a proper contingency plan. As a result many human lives are lost and severe damages caused to private and government properties.  

Education was taken over by the State by privatization of schools in the name of free education, a political decision, considered a good move to make free education available to all citizens. 

In the wake of controversy involving human rights lawyer Lakshan Dias and allegations of extremism, Justice and Buddha Sasana Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe spoke to Daily Mirror responding to  allegations against him. Excerpts of the int

Protests are part and parcel of a healthy democracy. Another crucial element of a functioning democracy is the Rule of Law which includes legal protections, enforcement where necessary and recourse to the courts in the event of perceived infringeme

The South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) or the Malabe private medical college issue seems to have reached an impasse. The government and the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA), the main contenders are intransigent a

“Two disputants agreed to visit the village sage seeking mediation on their bitter dispute. He listened patiently to both. At the end, addressing one, the mediator said the disputant was right. Turning to the other, the mediator said that he

Roger Federer is once again the hot favourite to win next month’s Wimbledon. It has been five years since he won the title last. If he succeeds, the 35-year-old Swiss will be installed as Wimbledon’s greatest ever as he is now on a tie

The other day, the taxpayers or the general public who pay our legislators their salaries and sponsor other perks witnessed another very brilliant parliamentary session on which way the people who voted them to power should get intoxicated. In spea

Human nature has not changed. It may have embraced new cultures. It may have rejected certain others. It may have progressed from check books to credit cards and e-banking but remains loyal to money and what it does to bring about outwardly pleasur

Following a statement made during a TV talk show highlighting attacks on a religious minority group, human rights lawyer Lakshan Dias faced allegations raised by the Justice Minister on the grounds of creating religious disharmony. Commenting on th

At a time when the country is facing a debt burden, Ministers should play a key role in securing the people’s money. But they seem to care less. While they get to enjoy most perks and benefits, many of them seem to be surviving the tax game a

The yahapalana government won the elections on a promise of democracy and prosperity. Now it seems to assume that its....

Yesterday was the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, with the United Nations in a statement saying.....