Extensive orientation course for heads of mission deignate Former Chief Justice, Mohan Pieris, is mentioned as likely to be appointed as Sri Lanka’s new Permanent Representative...
Land grabbing in Hambantota The following is a shortened version of a communiqué sent to us by the author on behalf of the Movement for Land...
A Colombo Magistrate has issued notice on the Captain of the stricken oil tanker MT New Diamond to appear before him on September 28, Court reports...
When we think of greenhouses, we tend to think of the cold hills of Nuwara Eliya, old fashioned English homes and Victorian botanical gardens full of...
by Dr Sarala Fernando Former Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinghe recently referred to the need to reshape Sri Lanka’s outward migrant flows to become “smaller, smarter and...
Memoirs of a GA’s wife by Carmen Ranjini Amarasekera It was in 1965 that Wimal assumed duties as GA Moneragala. We were just married and having...
Describing the remarks of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Sri Lanka on the proposed 20th Amendment as “unwarranted and pre-judgemental, based on presumption”,...
by S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI: Onions have taken the centre stage in the latest strain in ties between India and Bangladesh. Bangladesh...
by C.A.Chandraprema Over the past several days, we have been hearing various criticisms of the 20A by members of the opposition as well as from pro-government...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma The terms “Freedom of Religion” and Freedom of Worship” are often used as interchangeable concepts. They are not. The difference in the meaning...