Five-fold increase in consumption of alcohol in North-East
The President of the Jaffna Chamber of Commerce R Jeyasegaran on Friday June 12 said that alcohol consumption was rapidly increasing after the end of the...
Australia ignores answers on boat payment claim
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused again on Sunday to deny allegations an official paid thousands of dollars to turn back a boatload of asylum-seekers,...
The mind of Wigneswaran
Chief Minister Wigneswaran hell bent on getting rid of the Armed Services from the North has arrived at the perverted conclusion that the post-war deployment...
Gotabaya to Keep Off Electoral Politics for Strategic Reasons
Sri Lanka's former Defence Secretary,Gotabaya Rajapaksa, will keep off electoral politics for the time being in order to achieve the immediate and larger objective of...
Can music lead to social harmony in Sri Lanka?
Although Sri Lanka's decades-long civil war ended in 2009, an entire generation remains scarred by the conflict. Many children grew up knowing nothing but the...
Scheme for widows to be launched
With reconciliation being high on its agenda, the Sri Lankan government has decided to launch an empowerment scheme for widows in the country and extend...
Vatican Speaker on Climate Thinks There are 6 Billion Too Many
One of the speakers slated for the Vatican rollout of the long-awaited Papal document on climate change once said the earth is overpopulated by at...