The provincial councils scheme , implemented since 1988, has seen a number of chief ministers being elected by the various provincial councils over the years. Although the norm has been for each ...

The Parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965 was an important turning point in the post-independence history of Sri Lanka known as Ceylon then. It was this election held sixty years ago that led ...

Gamini Fonseka has been my favourite Sinhala film actor . since childhood. Gamini entered my life when I was about eight years old. The place he did so was a movie theatre in Maradana bearing his own ...

This week’s Column is the second of a series of articles denoting the 20th anniversary of the revolt headed by former eastern tiger commander Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias “Karuna Ammaan” against ...

Current media coverage in Sri Lanka is heavily focused on the forthcoming Presidential elections. Though officially not announced yet, it seems a foregone conclusion that the presidential poll would ...

Commemorative Article Denoting 25th death anniversary of Muslim Congress leader MHM Ashraff on 16 September. Mohammad Hussein Muhammad Ashraff, known to all MHM Ashraff was one of the brightest stars ...

The United Lingdom (UK) has imposed sanctions on four Sri Lankans allegedly responsible for serious human rights abuses and violations committed during the war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and ...

Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) deputy military chief Kandiah Balasegaran alias ‘Brigadier’ Balraj is regarded as the finest military commander the tigers ever had. Balraj was a much ...

In the first part of this article on Sathasivampillai Krishnakumar alias “Col”Kittu published last week in the “Daily Mirror”, I had written about my interviewing the LTTE Jaffna district commander ...

Vallipuram Vasanthan alias “Captain Miller” the first Suicide bumber of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) is the focus of this two -part article. A brief description of the pioneering “Black ...

Chelliah Rajadurai a veteran politician of Sri Lanka – perhaps the oldest among former Parliamentarians – passed away on 7th December 2025 at the age of 98. Rajadurai hailing from Batticaloa was a ...

On Easter Sunday 2025, Pope Francis did not deliver his speech in person, though he briefly greeted the faithful with a brief “Brothers and Sisters, Happy Easter”. The pope’s traditio, “urbi et orbi,” ...