In an opinion piece we run today, Dr. Upatissa Pethiyagoda, an accomplished scientist who had served the Tea Research Institute in a senior capacity and had...
Saturday 13th March, 2021 The government apparently specialises in making U-turns. It refused to consider burial as an option as regards the disposal of the remains...
Friday 12th March, 2021 Gazettes are a dime a dozen in this country and whether they serve any purpose is anyone’s guess. The maximum retail prices...
Thursday 11th March, 2021 Many are those who flay the western bloc for duplicity anent its handling of human rights issues. The West, in fact, deserves...
Wednesday 10th March, 2021 The government has resorted to gobbledygook to obfuscate the issue of facilitating further foreign involvement in the Colombo Port. It is notorious...
Tuesday 9th March, 2021 The Black Sunday protest was a huge success. Thankfully, some politicians who sought to make political capital out of the event failed...
Monday 8th March, 2021 Pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar have dug their heels in. Demonstrating remarkable resilience in the face of the military junta, they have urged...
That there is no quick fix to the globally raging Covid-19 pandemic is now all too clear. Countries worldwide seek to protect their populations as best...
Saturday 6th March, 2021 Superstition can be dangerous when taken to an extreme. A female exorcist who mercilessly caned a nine-year-old girl in a bid to...
Friday 5th March, 2021 Judges do not take kindly to utterances that amount to contempt of court. They go all out to make the offenders concerned...