For decades, Sri Lankans have heard the same promise from every new government — “We will eliminate the underworld and end the drug menace.” Presidents, Prime Ministers, Ministers of National Security ...

Give the devil its due, they say. Donald Trump deserves a few words of praise at least for instituting a pause rather than a ceasefire in Gaza. After two years of ceaseless bombing, genocide and ...

In fact Israelis are largely Ashkenazi Khazarians of south east Europe. They do not have any genetic roots traced back to the early Hebrew Jews and the twelve tribes of Jacob or his sons or the land ...

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its latest report has slammed the Sri Lankan government for failure to make real progress in holding accountable those responsible for the execution style slaying of 17 ...

Over 800,000 suicide deaths are reported every year, 75% of these origination from the lower and middle-income countries predominantly within Asia. Sri Lanka was listed as having the 4 th highest ...

Nandana Jayadewa Lokuwithana, the Dubai based Sri Lankan businessman, and alleged front man of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been named in the Panama Papers released by the International ...

The suicide bomber who killed Premadasa on 1st May 1993 was said to be Kulaveerasingam Veerakumar (23) alias Babu, from Jaffna. Nearly all the details given to the Press came from Amarasena Rajapakse, ...

MOORHEAD, MN — Metaphorically speaking, Ranjith was born with a silver spoon in his mouth into an upper middle class Sinhalese Buddhist family as the second son of Sri Lanka’s legendary newspaper ...

World War I was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all of the great powers of the world, as at that time, which were grouped into ...

Many people are not clear about the difference between classical economics and neoliberalism; to put it starkly, neoliberalism is classical economics plus a political ideology. While the original ...

President Sirisena‘s brother, Pallewatta Gamaralalage Kumarasinghe Sirisena also known as P.G. Kumarasinghe Sirisena has been appointed as the Chairman of Sri Lanka Telecom. Pallewatta Gamaralalage ...

A glance at the rounded, elliptical, an-iconic image of Shiva Lingam placed on a circular base (known as Peedam), which is found in the Sanctum Sanctorum (Garbhagraha) in all Shiva temples, has given ...