In one of the most heinous crimes committed against humanitarian personnel, 17 Sri Lankan workers of…
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The Toxic Shipwreck: A Silent Killer Murdering Ocean Life
Photo courtesy of Hemantha Withanage The X-Press Pearl ship catastrophe is the most significant ship accident…
Looming preventable Covid crisis: Let experts handle or else… by Ranga Jayasuriya
Sri Lanka’s health sector is on the verge of collapse. Hospitals are over-pouring with patients. Dedicated…
A deadly series of blunders
My dear Delta, I thought I should write to you as you have invaded us like…
Sudden attention on child labour: Whither police intelligence?
Much hype has been suddenly generated over the employment of children as domestic aides. The reason…
Useful medical tips on detecting and managing Covid-19
As the hospital system is overwhelmed, a “group of health professionals”, in a social media post,…
Addressing the core issue of “trust deficit” in Indo-Lanka relations
High Commissioner-designate Milinda Moragoda presents concept paper to the President The Sri Lankan High Commissioner-designate to…
Easter Sunday attacks–the truth yet to unfold
Nearly two and a half years after the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks, the country is no…
Playing with the crisis
I am not an economist or a financial expert, but as a political analyst and a…
Apples and doctors by S. H. MOULANA
Once at a party, in Riyadh, a very close engineer friend of mine (late Yaseen Marikkar)…
Militarisation: Two sides of a contemporary movement
STURM UND DRANG – for those enamoured of ‘Ordnung’ (the order of a disciplined yet highly…
Sri Lanka to resume govt services fully despite health warnings
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will resume usual government services with Covid-19 health guideline from August 2,…
Military training: Misguided, Counterproductive, and Against Buddhist Values. BY NIPUNA KUMBALATHARA.
ECONOMYNEXT – Minister Sarath Weerasekara, a former naval Rear Admiral, insists that all Sri Lankans –…
Hishalini: only for political and media consumption by M S M Ayub
On 15 August 2009, the bodies of two girls were found floating in the Torrington canal…
Fear of One’s Neighbour By Kusum Wijetilleke
Ahnaf Jazeem and Hejaaz Hizbullah find themselves thrust as symbols of Sri Lanka’s latest contentions with…
Poetry in the time of pandemic By Dylan Perera
A prisoner goes to the jail’s library to borrow a book. The librarian says: “I am…
Sri Lanka ruling party and main opposition two sides of the same coin: ex foreign minister
ECONOMYNEXT – The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the main opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya…
The President’s Tweet On A National Reconciliation Policy By Jehan Perera
The government comfortably overcame a vote of no confidence in one of its key ministers over…