Post World War II legal architecture comprises numerous Declarations and Covenants on Human Rights and finally an International Criminal Court (ICC) that has struggled to retain its high ground as an ...

Janaka Bandara this week requested the Colombo High Court to order that a report by a full medical board be obtained regarding claims that suspect Daisy Forrest has been suffering from dementia since ...

Mahendra Percy Rajapaksa known to his country and the world at large as Mahinda Rajapaksa will celebrate his 80th birth anniversary on 18 November 2025. In a political career spanning more than five ...

Sri Lanka’s fifth executive president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, will celebrate his 80th birth anniversary this week. Mahinda, born ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s 2026 Budget speech, while breaking symbolically from tradition, reveals a deeper continuity with ...

Prasanna Ranatunga, who formerly served as Sri Lanka's minister of tourism and civil aviation, was arrested Wednesday (Nov 12) by officials of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or ...

Yet when it comes to dealings in its own neighborhood, India has often behaved in decidedly illiberal ways, propping up autocratic regimes and meddling in the affairs of other sovereign countries. New ...

Last week, Veteran journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj, writing the first of a two-part article on Mahinda Rajapaksa turning 80, aptly ...

Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development, Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe told Parliament yesterday that the Government has decided to extend the existing pension scheme to public ...

Nuwara Eliya district Member of Parliament Jeevan Thondaman will marry on3. His bride will be Seethai Sri Naatchiyar, a doctor from Chennai, India. According to reports, the wedding ceremony will take ...

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday (10) told The Island that he wouldn’t join the Nugegoda protest rally as he was ...

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...