The long talked-about referendum in Turkey will happen on April 16. In effect voters have to decide whether president Recep....

With medical doctors going on strike again yesterday and making tens of thousands of poor patients suffer, the diagnosis....

Everybody in the country knew that neither his demand (whatever it is) would be met nor he would continue his fast until his death because of that. Nine days after he started the fast that followed the rejection of his bail application by the court h

I have said this before and let me say it again. There’s nothing called ‘free’ education as the GMOA and their IUSF allies shout. The cost of education is borne privately by individual parents in 78 schools (excluding 25 specia

Very many people of this country seem to be misusing the occasion, not because they are anti-traditions but because they do not know the significance and the history of the entire rituals being observed. If they really understand the origin of these

From all parts of the country, large crowds attended the five-day national festival of non-toxic food and other eco-friendly items and we hope this green Lanka perception will not end there or with the National New Year but continue to produce s

Fourteen Aprils ago, the world witnessed a giant statue of Iraq’s ousted dictator Saddam Hussein being toppled by a group of people at Baghdad’s Firdos Square. The crowd was surprisingly small. To support them in the task were the in

As the holiday makers are getting ready to celebrate their festive season fulfilling gastronomic delights with barbequed food in Nuwara Eliya and other hill country destinations, the Daily Mirror warns such holidaymakers among  its readers of

The government is still struggling to get clearance from all the stakeholders to proceed with the Hambantota Port project with a Chinese company. It is hampered due to differences within the government itself and legal issues arising from the origi

We, the undersigned, find the recent statements of the Chairperson of the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU), that reform of the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) is not needed, to be unacceptable. It is patently clear that the ACJU has contr

There was a time when victory over enemies was about bashing heads, seizing their women and enslaving their children. It still happens of course. The cost-effective way is for the powerful to dictate, the weak to submit, hands to be shaken with the

Although our own medical officers have threatened to go strike again, tomorrow April 7, is World Health Day with this year’s theme being, “Depression: let’s talk”. In this stress-filled era some globalization dimensions, whi

Nevertheless, as the promise of a new constitution beckons, a raft of other issues, such as the reform of personal laws, and....

After the UN Human Rights Council 34th session ended in Geneva, the US said it introduced three resolutions....

The National Youth Convention last week and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party’s Youth Conference on Sunday, April 2 are....

Wimal Weerawansa is a destructive politician. After Anagarika Dharmapala, he is probably the most effective rabble rouser who....

The deadline given by the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) for the government to settle the issue involving....

Last Week, British Premier Theresa May triggered the official divorce proceedings for the United Kingdom with the European Union....

The Government is dragging out the Constitutional Reform process. Is it a lack of political will? Fear of reaction from the Joint.....

Terrorism in its broadest sense is the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror/fear to achieve a....

The Asian economies are picking up speed again. After the big hit from Wall Street when the bank, Lehman Brothers, collapsed in a heap in 2008, sending shock waves everywhere, a recovery is now in the works.   

  The watched pot never boils. Yet, the department of examination has released the much awaited G.C.E. (O/L) results in double quick time to the utter surprise of the parents, teachers and the students. In my ramblings, I came upon some children

Though the United States President Donald Trump has cast a dark cloud over the world by cancelling his predecessor Barack Obama’s executive orders to restrict climate change and go green, Sri Lanka has set a proud example to the world with the

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken in the flood, Leads to the Presidency of the United States.  

Considering the contradictions between the Government’s dealings with the international players in respect of human rights and its media statements issued for local consumption, one would wonder whether it is the international community or the

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,” J. Robert Oppenheimer said quoting from the Bhagawad Gita. He was one of the fathers of the first atomic bomb – the illegitimate child conceived and delivered by the top secret 

Continued from Thursday, March 23 This article is the second of a two-part series on the question of constitutionalising ESC rights in Sri Lanka. The first part presented a case for recognising the obligations of the state towards ESC rights. It

Two veteran politicians in Sri Lanka that I respect very much are both senior Tamil politicians.  Both have been in active politics for well over 60 years for now. Veerasingham Anandasangaree is one. A school teacher, he taught at Kotelawal

Although women represent more than half of the Sri Lankan population, their representation in the field of engineering is considerably less. In order to combat this problem and to encourage more women to be part of the industry, the Institution of En

Russian President Vladimir is known to be a ‘strong man’. That ‘strength’ was amply demonstrated recently in action taken to blunt protests organized by the Opposition. Putin doesn’t rant and rave like those who have mad