23+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1783+ words) 13 Sep 2026 | By Asiri Fernando As the Government presses ahead with the proposed 22nd Amendment (22A) to the Constitution, questions over the timing, rationale, and wider implications of the move have continued to fuel debate among legal professionals and the public. In this…...

23+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1081+ words) 13 Sep 2026 | By Kusum Wijetilleke The Nobel Prize for Economics was not one of the original prizes established by Alfred Nobel, which in 1901 included five awards for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. The economics prize was created in…...

19+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1731+ words) 13 Sep 2026 | By Methmalie Dissanayake Most 10-year-olds saving up coins are dreaming of sweets, a toy, perhaps a new pair of shoes. Suranjani Maduwanthi’s daughter is saving hers for a headstone. “My daughter is collecting money to build a good monument…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1232+ words) 11 Sep 2026 | By Sugeeswara Senadhira Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s three-day visit to Sri Lanka this week is strategically more significant than the relatively modest value of the agreements signed in Colombo might suggest. Since the visit of K C Pant…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (545+ words) 10 Sep 2026 | Staff Writer President Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasised that one of the Government’s foremost objectives is to create an environment in which no community feels insecure or fearful in society because of its cultural identity, while ensuring their psychological security....

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (590+ words) 10 Sep 2026 | BY Dilanthi Jayamanne Sri Lanka’s elevation to middle-income country status has resulted in the scaling back or discontinuation of some donor-funded medicine supplies, forcing the Government to use domestic funds to purchase medicines previously obtained through international assistance programmes,…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (665+ words) The Morning A partnership that has come of age When Rajnath Singh landed in Colombo this week, becoming the first Indian Defence Minister to visit Sri Lanka since K C Pant did so in 1988, he arrived not merely as a…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1233+ words) 10 Sep 2026 | BY Dr Sarath Mataraarachchi The town planner is the professional expected to bring together the many forces that shape cities, towns and human settlements. The planner is, in a sense, the brain behind the city: not because the planner…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (612+ words) 09 Sep 2026 | BY Anoka Primrose Abeyrathne On the afternoon of 24 August, residents of Heiyanthuduwa saw something that no community should ever see in the water flowing through its paddy fields. It had turned a striking blue. This was, thankfully, a contamination…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (696+ words) The Morning The circle Geneva cannot break This week, as they have done at almost every session of the UN Human Rights Council since the war ended seventeen years ago, Sri Lanka's representatives once again stood in the Palais des…...