Middle Eastern politics and political leaders made news over the last week from the Iranian presidential elections, Turkish President’s...

Faced with a whole range of day to day issues, many people today do not pay much attention to bigger issues like.....

On 18 May, the long drought the country had been facing came to an end. The rains came and came, and came in an abundance. In fact....

During the French election no candidate talked about France’s nuclear weapons. In Britain, the subject has been raised at its election in an attempt to undermine the Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Tomorrow is the United Nations World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development – virtues that are important for Sri Lanka in this post-conflict era. 

Wednesday May 17 was the United Nations World Telecommunication and Information Society Day with this year’s theme....

India last week once again spurned China’s ambitious economic agenda for the world – the US$ 950 billion One-Belt-One-Road....

Hard on the heels of his “fast unto death” in prison calling for his release on bail, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa was....

A “National Policy on Reconciliation and Co-existence” has been drafted by the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation.....

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe left Colombo to attend China’s One Belt One Road Forum in Beijing within hours of Indian....

It was a rousing welcome befitting a celebrity. Tamils of recent Indian origin lined the streets of Dickoya in Sri Lanka’s....

Regional Development Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, in an interview with Daily Mirror, speaks about the proposed role to be assigned to him, the current status of politics and his future plans. Excerpts of the interview:  

When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected, BBC just couldn’t get enough of the protests. Wiliam Bowles, in an article titled ‘The nerve of these guys!’ quoted the BBC back then: ‘Millions of Iranians simply did not believe the

In some part of this island, perhaps in a humble home, or in a public place heavy with ideological fervour or political statement, someone will light a candle or lamp, someone will grieve. Someone will remember someone who was loved. Remove all the

A cabinet reshuffle, setting up a special authority to suppress strikes, disciplinary action against SLFPers who attended the Galle Face rally, the controversy surrounding Minister Rajitha Senaratne’s title as cabinet spokesperson and an immi

Dr. D. Dayalan, Director (Monuments) Archaeological Survey, India, has been instrumental in the recent explorations of the rich Buddhist historical remains of India after extensive excavations....

The other day, a partially decomposed body, supposed to be of an octogenarian, was discovered by ?a beggar inside a culvert on a city road in the metropolitan capital of Sri Lanka. The corpse had been clogged inside the narrow culvert due to rap

Who wants the Yahapalanaya (good governance)? Not Sri Lankans, for sure. More thrive on mis-governance or are beneficiaries of serial corruption that has trickled down with the advent of free economy....

World leaders have told us that while we keep our feet firmly planted on ground realities, we need to set our vision on the stars and have noble goals in life -- beyond selfish or self-centred agendas and ambitions...

When the carcass of our polity is sprawled across the landscape of the country, when the carcass is well beyond recognition, when its heart has stopped beating, its nerves ceased to twitch and its blood has hardened so much so that it’s no redd

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) faction in the government has decided to appoint its own Cabinet spokesman, indicating the....

During the last weekend, President Xi Jinping unveiled his pet project, presented in a rather confusing jargon, ‘One Belt One Road’, in....

Author and constitutional lawyer Canishka Witharana who is involved in the legal work of nationalist groups, said in an interview that attempts....

Secretary to the Public Representation Committee on Constitutional Reforms, Winston Pathiraja, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, says a....

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on April 27 cracked open one of the most horrendous problems confronting mankind-the....

Indian Prime Minister’s visit dominated the local news headlines and spawned intense debates among analysts and politicians....

The Mullaitivu fishing community went through tremendous devastation during the last phase of the war, the tsunami before that....

On Sunday, May 7, Emmanuel Macron, a centrist young former banker,  who had never held elected office, comfortably won the...

With so much confusion if not chaos compounded by contradictory statements – the latest being on the sacking of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – it seems that the United States President Donald Trump is emerging

Vesak is a day for humanity to revere the Birth, the Enlightenment and the Parinibbana of the Buddha, the “Tathagatha”. It is a day to rejoice in the Buddha. A day to reflect on the supreme truth and timeless relevance of the Dhamma, and