The United States’ new President Donald Trump a former reality television star, appears to be getting a reality check on constitutional issues.

So what does President Donald Trump think about NATO? Twice during his campaign he rubbished it publicly, saying it was “obsolete”. Yet earlier this month when he met Britain’s Prime Minister, Therese May, it was all hunky dory. He

The Court of Appeal decision on January 31 (2017) notwithstanding, anti SAITM protests continue on the streets and are given much coverage in media....

 Two civil movements, Sarvodaya and Transparency International (TI) had recently said......

?Donald Trump is newsmaker extraordinary. It is no exaggeration to say that from the day he assumed office on January 20, not a single morning passes without a breaking news item connected to him being flashed across the TV screen as we switch on to

With the ever-increasing marvels of modern technology making the concept of a global village more of a reality and with the newly-inaugurated United States President Donald Trump bringing about chaos in the international political and economic order,

Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe is now at the centre of much controversy, with certain MPs and Ministers expressing their views of him and some even having gone to the extent of criticizing his findings on the Bond Scam, 

Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara’s recent comments on Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran contained valid observations, old news delivered as though it was new, half-truths and some uncalled for insults. Wigneswaran’s res

When President Maithripala Sirisena stressed at a top level meeting last Friday that he should take ‘some action’ to eliminate corruption, it was construed as a reference to a Cabinet reshuffle.  It proved to be correct later, but th

Since 2007 one of the Health Ministry’s most enlightened operations, has been the Vision 2020 Mission,

Experiencing two years of ‘Yahapalanaya,’ those who brought forth the change in government seem to be anxious over a few of its practices, ....

Former Minister, and former Chairman of the COPE and leader of the Communist Party of  Sri Lanka, ......

Higher Education and Highways Minister Lakshman Kiriella, in an interview with Daily Mirror, stresses the need for promotion of private investment in higher education in Sri Lanka to create more and more opportunities for students. .....

De-criminalising is de-colonising. Repealing Article 365 and 365 (A) of Sri Lanka’s Penal Code is not just supporting the de-criminalising of same sex sexual conduct between consenting adults.....

The Appeal Court on January 31 ruled that a petitioner, an MBBS graduate student of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Management....

Unlike during the decades back when patriotism was forced down the throat, these days there is a degree of circumspection when Sri Lankans

With the possible declaration of a state of emergency and the deployment of troops to deal with the effects of the ongoing drought, citizens....

Corruption which was sweeping into the body politics unreservedly grabbed a fair portion of Independence; and continues to.....

On January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump assumed office as US President. He rode into power on the back of the slogan.....

Sri Lanka’s first Prime Minister  D.S. Senanayake entered the National Legislature in 1924. He was relatively unknown in the country and was pushed into prominence by elder brother F.R. Senanayake, who was

“Where the mind is without fear and the head held high,   Where knowledge is free  

The news on the assassination attempt on Parliamentarian and Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran that was broken by the Daily Mirror on January 21 has put many political parties in a difficult position. 

The Right to Information (RTI) Act will come into effect today, February 03, 2017.    The Sri Lankan RTI Act is ranked 10th best in the world.   

In 2009, the controversial Presidential election in Iran was met with mass public protests. What followed was State-wide crackdown on dissent.

In 2003, six months after US troops invaded Iraq, I met this young Afro American researcher in Chicago, while I was touring the United States under a State Department International Visitors’ Programme. 

On the eve of our 69th Independence Day, Sri Lanka’s potentially historic Right to Information Act (RTI) will be activated for the benefit of all people across the country.

The role played by Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in changing the political landscape in January 2015 was praiseworthy. 

Following Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister Faiszer Musthapha’s assurance in court that he would Gazette the electoral wards in conformity with recommendations by the Delimitation Review Committee within a month, there is now so

Dr Nirmala Chandrahasan (LLB, LLM, PhD, Attorney-at-Law) in an article titled “National Question and grievances faced by a minority’ (which she claims is a response to a piece I wrote, ‘Let’s make Sampanthan’s New Year w

Today is World Wetland’s Day with this year’s theme being Wetlands for Disaster Risk Reduction.  A wetland or marshland as we know it in Sri Lanka, is a land area saturated with water, permanently or seasonally. Thus it becomes an im