Sri Lanka’s state university system, with its enviable human resource base, is on this job. But due to structural problems such as funding for ongoing projects, the availability has been short of the ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman scholar and statesman, said “A budget should be balance, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered ...

This dreaded collapse of class- a product of breed that teaches us etiquette, decorum and calmness of wisdom, and finesse and refined nuances of international diplomacy – might cause many more lives,, ...

There is an insightful saying with a touch of sarcasm and humour from ancient Tamil literature: “It is as though one listened to the entire Ramayana and then asked what the relationship between Rama ...

Lawyers Collective on the appointment of retired judges to positions in the public and private sectors. The appointment of retired judges, especially of the Superior Courts, to po ...

Extrajudicial killings are not a new phenomenon in Sri Lanka. Over the years, successive governments have been accused of sanctioning or turning a blind eye to the unlawful killing of suspects by ...

President Donald Trump in the United States is showing how, in a democratic polity, the winner of the people’s mandate can become an unstoppable extreme force. Critics of the NPP government frequently ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has delivered an excellent first budget. It could easily be described as the best budget so far this century and presented in the most dire economic circumstances in ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) and his National Peoples Power (NPP) ministerial team are a mixed group of different shades of leftists. But AKD is the most experienced of them in ...

The technical breakthroughs of the last few decades have immensely contributed to society, shrinking the communication gap and connecting us in ways once unimaginable. On the surface, this seems true, ...

If the establishment media’s longstanding coverage of Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) hasn’t already revealed his alignment with establishment interests, the analysis of his proposed budget should make ...