Five US arms producers made US $ 7 trillion, equivalent to 350 years of Sri Lanka’s annual foreign earnings, at US $ 21 billion per year...
By Prof. Saroj Jayasinghe, MBBS, MD (Colombo), FRCP (London), MD (Bristol) PhD (Colombo), FCCP, FNASSL Consultant to the Faculty of Medicine Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka....
With abject apologies to Tom Paine, who in the Age of Reason (1794), coined the phrase from the sublime to the ridiculous, the situation in the...
By Rohana R. Wasala It seems I was born to restore the Sasana in India. When I started Buddhist work in India, a lot of lay...
At the outset, I must confess, it is with the expectation of severe criticism from those interested that I broach this subject. It is known that...
By CHANDRE DHARMAWARDANA Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila has told the Consultative Committee on Energy that Sri Lanka was “sitting on USD 267 billion worth of oil...
Over the past 18 months, Sri Lanka saw several lockdowns, of varying periods. Except for the very first lockdown in the initial phase of the pandemic,...
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka From a party that made history, today the UNP is history. The last chance it had, it blew. That was in 2019...
The Sri Lankan coastline has seen many disasters in the recent past. Its high vulnerability to climate change impacts like sea-level rise, flooding, storm surges, cyclones...
Dr Laksiri Fernando The World University Service (WUS) initially planned to celebrate its 100th anniversary in Vienna on 14-16 May 2020. The theme of the world...