(Excerpted from Selected Journalism by HAJ Hulugalle) In 1911 Sir Ponnambalan Ramanathan was elected to the educated Ceylonese seat in the Legislative Council at the age...
-Is it a Machiavellian endeavour? by Dr Nihal Jayawickrama It has been reported that the Government proposes to introduce a Bill to amend the Constitution for...
by R.J. de Silva,Attorney-at-law A pardon is defined in Black’s Law Dictionary ‘as an act of grace’. In the Oxford Dictionary it is defined as an...
(Excerpted from Selected Journalism by HAJ Hulugalle) Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike who was Maha Mudaliyar or Chief Interpreter to the Governor was born on May 22,...
President Ranil Wickremasinghe got a bellyful of criticism in the print media last Sunday – June 30. Why? His Address to the Nation which he named...
by Anura Gunasekera President Ranil Wickremesinghe chose the Ceylon Workers’ Congress May Day platform, in Kotagala, to announce the increase of the plantation workers’ daily wage...
Democrats panic as President Biden has a dismal night by Vijaya Chandrasoma The Biden-Trump debate, touted as the political face-off that would change the course of...
By Tisaranee Gunasekera “All theory is grey… But forever green is the tree of life. “Goethe (Faust) For three months in late 1990’s, American author and...
By Rumeth Jayasinghe “Blood is thicker than water. It was natural for India to see what it could do to stand by Sri Lanka at this...
By. LaLin i De SiLva Today (June23) is the 100th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister and President Ranasinghe Premadasa who was born on this day...