It was ridiculous on the part of the government to have a minister and an official arguing in front of the media over a matter that had to be sorted out between them. The argument broke out at the media conference on Monday for the handing over of th

From 1989 to 2004, the years that witnessed the escalation of the war against Tamil separatists, the years that Sri Lanka had to deal with a multitude of gripping episodes of suicide bombers and diehard idealists, the years that whizzed past everyday

A fearless man, who never feared anybody or anything, always stood by the correct thing and above all, he had a human heart. He was so courageous that he was ready to fight and to fight, even when hope is out of site.   

Calling on parties and people to rise beyond petty party politics or the desire for personal gain, President Maithripala Sirisena and....

We are entering the New Year with many self-contradictions. In politics, at least one stands out. Consider this for...

As the New Year 2017 dawned yesterday, the Rainbow Coalition - which was swept to office with high hopes and expectations on January...

With the Maithri-Ranil ‘unity government’ approaching the end of its second year in office in an increasingly acrimonious....

With several islandwide power outages reported in 2016, many have predicted a looming power crisis threatening to cripple the...

We continue to have the most tyrannical and power hungry politicians for many decades. MS/RW formula could have been the....

What you see depends on where you sit. There are the pessimists who see President-elect Donald Trump who said in his tweet about the need to engage in a new arms race. There are the optimists, sitting on the other side of the room,

Midnight tonight, when 2016 ends and 2017 begins, has been proclaimed as the International Hour for peace, a global effort launched in 1986 by John Randolph Price and the Quartus Foundation - a spiritual research movement. The vision is to give the i

The controversial Development (Special Provisions) Bill has been rejected by all nine provincial councils where it had so far been presented, thus reflecting that they would veto the Bill which, according to the opposition parties, would give rise to

Prof. R. Sivachandran, a Central Committee member of Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), in an interview with the Dailymirror by email, advocates the Federal structure of government for the North and East. The ITAK is the dominant ally of the Tamil N

Professor Emeritus of University of Peradeniya G. H. Peiris who has done extensive research in contemporary politics speaks about unitary and federal concepts, and the way forward for Sri Lanka. In an email interview with, Dailymirror he sa

So the Barack Obama administration has at last proved it has the courage to stand up to Israel but it was too little too late. Can President Obama achieve in the 22 remaining days of his presidency what he could not achieve in the past eight years? &

The National Government has declared the New Year 2017 as the year of poverty alleviation. We hope that political leaders especially will not only take effective steps but also set the example needed for it while the people actively cooperate in this

Year 2017 dawns with all arrangements including a week for ‘reconciliation’ put in place to celebrate two years of Maithripala Sirisena presidency and Wickremesinghe government.

Acrimony between the members of United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) sometimes raises doubts as to whether the foundation of the unity government is shaken. Despite taking on each other creating confusion in the minds of

I have written several articles in this column pointing out the precarious nature of the country’s economy and the disorderly state of society and polity in recent times. While the economy is unsustainably distorted, both structurally and funct

As we come to the end of 2016, it would be important to reflect on the little good deeds we have done for others, little acts of kindness and mercy in a spirit of selflessness and sincerity without expecting something in return.

Last days of the SLFP-led 1970-77 coalition government showed sure signs of socio-political degeneration of a mythical charisma.

One of the national government’s important promises was to introduce legislation and effectively implement the laws to make healthcare, mainly medicinal drugs available to all people at affordable prices.

The Chairman of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Prof. G.L. Peiris spoke to Daily Mirror on the provisions of the Development (Special Provisions) Bill. He says it contains provisions even overriding the powers of the President and Parliament.

As the year 2016 comes to a close, it would be useful to reflect on a few things, perhaps good things; that would be important....

The Right to Information that has been much hyped by the leaders of the Yahapalanaya government in the recent past seems to...

Police enforce the law to the letter. Could politicians lift our country to Australian standards, based on the way the ‘present regime had started off”?

Yesterday (25) Christians the world-over celebrated the birth of the Christ child. As the clock struck twelve, the stillness of the night was shattered as crackers and fireworks exploded commemorating the birth of Christ.

In the wake of proposals for the reduction of powers of provincial governors in the new Constitution, Southern Province Governor Hemakumara Nanayakkara spoke out against the move. 

An abiding fear for Donald Trump is that the Middle East dictators’ successors in power will be militant Islamists who once elected will stop at nothing. At one time in the presidential campaign he threatened to “nuke” them.

Today on the eve of Christmas many people throughout the world both Christian and non-Christian alike are about to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a man who has had immense influence upon individuals, nations and civilizations.