A decade ago, Kethesh Loganathan, one of my mentors and comrades, wrote a column in this newspaper, until he was....

Officially Sri Lanka today is in a situation best described by the Sinhala idiom ‘Girayata ahuwechcha puwak gediya wage’ –a Catch-22....

On June 4, 1962, a total of 158 young men and women who had secured admission to the University  of Ceylon entered the portals of the Colombo Medicine Faculty. We had gained entry purely on merit and were from all parts of the island including C

Despite the continuing crises such as the debt-ridden economy, the lack of direct foreign investments and the soaring cost of living, the national government to a large extent is restoring democratic rights. 

The great immigration debate has to become the great re-thinking and re-structuring debate. Charlie Brown is right when he says,

The United Nations wouldn’t be the same after January 20, roared president-elect Donald Trump in a tweet after the outgoing Barack Obama administration in a startling diplomatic manoeuvre got the UN Security Council to pass a unanimous resolu

The Ceylon Medical Council, instituted under colonial rule and later renamed and improved as Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC), is legally mandated to take care of the community’s and the people’s health. 

Today is World Wildlife Day with the vision being to celebrate and raise awareness on the world’s wild animals and plants. On December 20, 2013 the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed March 3, the day of signature of the Conventio

Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) Parliamentarian Ven. Athureliye Rathana Thera, who is in the centre of a controversy over his recent statement that he would be an independent member in Parliament, has attempted to create another controversy during the ina

Leader of the Opposition and the senior citizen of Tamil Nationalism R. ww in an adjournment motion has made some interesting points as follows:   

Former Test Cricketer Ranjan Madugalle, long before he became a match referee, once talked of fundamentals, both in cricket and life. It was a story about values. He said whenever he suffered a drop in form, he returned to the fundamentals such as

Eminent Buddhist Monk Ven. (Prof.) Bellanvila Wimalaratana Thera, in an interview with Daily Mirror, articulates his position on the current state of affairs, the Constitution making process and what should be done for the future. Excerpts:

 Former Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, in an exclusive interview with  by email, affirms that Sri Lanka is important to India not only on geopolitical reasons but also as a multi-ethnic democracy.....

According to the Central Bank figures, the total outstanding government debt as at end of August 2016 was Rs. 9,316.569 billion (or 9.316 trillion)......

How do you describe a group of senior students forcibly taking freshers to an isolated house in the dead of night, stripping them naked, and assaulting them for no reason? Aren’t they brutal criminals? Why should they be described as raggers ju

Mr. Sumanthiran spoke second, following upon Prof GL Pieris. My own speech took on more of an edge than it otherwise would have, in response to the latent note of intimidation vis–a-vis the Sinhala majority struck by both Suma and former Chief

President Maithripala Sirisena says a decision on the private medical school, the South Asian Institute of Technology and.....

As we enter March tomorrow, instead of focusing on the cliché of Ides, we need to reflect deeply on inter-religious unity in diversity....

Faults lie in keeping mum to suffer in silence: watching holders of high office thwart the law is a prime injustice uncontained. Do not....

Fortunately today, as a positive result following the recent rejection by President Maithripala Sirisena (in the much discussed National Human Rights Action Plan)....

Kim Jong Nam the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was assassinated at a crowded airport in Malaysia in broad....

The new electoral system is a hot topic of conversation with Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya at the centre of it all. In a candid interview, Deshapriya sheds light on the formulation of the new electoral system and the violations of

Eleven hundred years ago Europe was a backwater. There were no grand cities, apart from Cordoba in Spain which was Muslim. 

Dr. Al Sears, MD is one of the United States’ leading anti-aging doctors. He has made it his life’s work to challenge conventional medical beliefs and bring his patients the latest breakthroughs in natural cures and remedies to diseases o

“We put Sri Lanka on the map in Rwanda” says Honorary Consul of the Republic of Rwanda in  Sri Lanka, Callistus Alles. Better known....

Poetry mixes not with bigotry. Philosophy is no honey for the fanatic. Shorn of spirituality, terrorism is antithesis of what humaneness is......

Sri Lanka’s achievement in having the world’s 3rd best RTI Act is without doubt mainly a result of having good Rules on Fees and Appeals, as proposed by the new Right to Information (RTI) Commission.....

The nation reappraises her patriotic sons for their benevolent contributions rendered to safeguard the hereditary rights of the motherland. February 23 marks the birth anniversary of a great patriotic icon who was born in the year 1886 - namely Don

I consider this an opportunity to pay the sincerest respects to someone to whom he owes possibly his entire existence. In my case it was D.R. Wijewardene.  There are many of us to whom it was a privilege to work in an institution which is part

Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, in an interview with Daily Mirror speaks about his future plans, diplomatic ties he developed during the war time and the charges levelled against him. The interview: