The UNHRC is an intergovernmental organisation, reporting directly to the United Nations General Assembly, with a mandate to promote and protect human rights in member countries,...
Sirasa TV is certainly having much more than its popularity. Its “Lakshapathi” weekly quiz programme has hit huge local, and global publicity, within a few weeks....
The pile-on over Sri Lanka by UNHRC is a blatant use of human rights as a political weapon in the geopolitics of today’s world. Many have...
A recent report in The Island says the CEB has admitted that the Mannar Wind Power Farm is not fully connected to the grid. This alarming...
by I. P.C. MENDIS The government has just extricated itself from the mess of the MOU with India and Japan over the ECT issue by resorting...
The article in The Island, dated 15th March 2021 – “Buddhists must visit temples regularly – PM” – takes us back to the pre-Independence era when...
Early in the Sirisena administration, there was a ‘treasury Bond scam’ (bandumkara mankollaya) which lawyers, politicians and journalists conjured up into a Central Bank, bond scam...
The Unsurpassable Wordsmith by SVD Kesarralal Gunasekera ‘What a beautiful and remarkable human being’ is what comes to my mind every time I think of Dr....
I am an elderly person, well over 60 years of age, still not even able to find out where to go for my Covid vaccination, let...
By I. P. C. MENDIS Some 60 plus years ago, the country was shocked and shaken over the news of the murder of the wife of...