The general elections on 5 August turned out to be an outstanding victory for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP),…

Last week, the de facto leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), M.A. Sumanthiran, gave an interview to a Sinhala…

Christian Drosten, who directs the Institute of Virology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, was one of those who identified…

The SAARC Secretariat should play an active role in the region’s response to COVID-19, along with “someone in-charge”, according to…

Following his election as president of Sri Lanka in 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has taken a strong stand against federalism and…

Exactly a 100 year ago, Sri Lanka had the experience of going through a horrendous pandemic the Spanish flu or…

As the lockdown nears the three-week mark, people want to know when the restrictions will be lifted. But it also…

‘And People Stayed Home’ A Famine Poem by Kathleen O’Meara – 1869. And people stayed home And read books and…

Some 10,000 frontline health workers in Sri Lanka are working tirelessly to arrest the spread of COVID-19 that has affected…

Death has been dubbed ‘the great leveller’. This sobriquet fits, in that the Grim Reaper does not discriminate against anyone.…