His face as still and serene as a statue’s, the Buddhist monk who has taken the title “the Burmese bin Laden” begins his sermon. Hundreds of worshippers sit before him, palms pressed together, sweat ...

A representative group of over hundred people are submitting their responses to the Director General of the Coast Conservation and Coastal Management Department at Maligawatta on the 6th of January. A ...

The Standing Orders will be amended and, in terms of Proposal 67/10 now tabled in Parliament, Oversight Committees will be set up comprising members of Parliament who are not in the Cabinet will be ...

Even its adversaries would admit that the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (NPP) has emerged as the most successful force in the post-aragalaya political scene. A recent opinion poll conducted by the Institute ...

“The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.” ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough The IMF intervention, at least in the very short run, seems to have altered the ...

The freedom of The Fourth Estate has become a widely spoken issue in the post war Sri Lanka at present. Murder case of Lasantha Wickramatunge the Editor of Sunday Leader moving at a snail’s pace and ...

The Government which has virtually brought the Nation to its knees due to its dire mismanagement of the Economy and Monetary Policy is now proposing the divestiture of non-strategic public assets of ...

As we know, the primary aspiration of leftists has always been the establishment of a socialist society. In contrast, right-wing ideologies aim to construct a capitalist economic system. Now that a ...

“Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism” (Lenin). “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk” (General Alexander Haig, American Secretary of State) As ...

A special note is when these schools that abuse their private status but have staff salaries from the state. Two such institutions are St. John’s College and the Nuffield School. These really are ...

A fundamental truth or axiom that many economists and development experts ignore in their models is the role of ordinary people in building a country’s economy and contributing to its development. The ...

In general, barring data analysis, the perception in the yester years had been that Muslims are the kingmakers at an election. Call it a fact or myth never mind, Gotabaya Rajapaksa the 8 th President ...