The oil backed US greenback’s global reserve currency status is under pressure given America’s whopping 39 trillion deficit and the rise of the Chinese Petro Yuan. The US war machine is trying ...

Because it is the current hot topic of the day two seminars were organized sometime back at Organization of Professionals on 15 th and 16 th – one on 15 th by Sri Lanka 2050 organized and moderated by ...

The Mahavamsa narrative relating to Prince Vijaya’s arrival in the island and landing in an area called Tambapanni (which basically means copper coloured soil), which is in the north-western coast of ...

How many youths are trained in vocations every year.” The Minister inquired. The Secretary to the Treasury rattled out the number that were being trained by all Government Departments and it totalled ...

I could have spoken in support of the youth training programmes done by the Ministry but decided otherwise. I replied. I would like you to consider approving a new programme aimed at making the 40,000 ...

Justice Radhabinod Pal (1886–1967), the only judge at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946–1948) to find all Japanese defendants not guilty, remains a towering figure in international law for his ...

Darrell Hair is a plague on cricket. Once again he has chosen to throw his considerable weight around, asserting his authority borrowed from the ICC. This garbage bag of a man has once again, made ...

Sri Lanka does not need to abandon democracy to achieve development. What it needs is decisive leadership within a democratic framework—a system where rules are enforced, policies are consistent, and ...

Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody and Energy Ministry Secretary Professor Udayanga Hemapala resigned from their respective positions. They submitted their resignation letters to President Anura Kumara ...

Roman – Dutch Law is upheld today as a pillar of Sri Lanka’s jurisprudence yet this very same legal system was used by Dutch to condemn and ban local religions as cannibal faiths. This notable fact is ...

The Island daily the next day (Monday, December 11, 2017) carried KD’s reply to another writer, Bodhi Dhanapala from Canada, who had made a reference to him in an earlier article to the same paper. I ...

India has made a major strategic move in Sri Lanka by acquiring a controlling stake in Colombo Dockyard, marking its first-ever takeover of a foreign shipbuilding facility. Led by Mazagon Dock ...