Sri Lanka’s state university system, with its enviable human resource base, is on this job. But due to structural problems such as funding for ongoing projects, the availability has been short of the ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman scholar and statesman, said “A budget should be balance, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered ...

This dreaded collapse of class- a product of breed that teaches us etiquette, decorum and calmness of wisdom, and finesse and refined nuances of international diplomacy – might cause many more lives,, ...

There is an insightful saying with a touch of sarcasm and humour from ancient Tamil literature: “It is as though one listened to the entire Ramayana and then asked what the relationship between Rama ...

Lawyers Collective on the appointment of retired judges to positions in the public and private sectors. The appointment of retired judges, especially of the Superior Courts, to po ...

Extrajudicial killings are not a new phenomenon in Sri Lanka. Over the years, successive governments have been accused of sanctioning or turning a blind eye to the unlawful killing of suspects by ...

This article was written in 2018 and published in The Island. I am updating it with some additions and a few changes. The discussion on the Capital Punishment (CP) has come to the fore again. I do not ...

President Donald Trump in the United States is showing how, in a democratic polity, the winner of the people’s mandate can become an unstoppable extreme force. Critics of the NPP government frequently ...

The blockchain world faces a persistent challenge: moving assets between different networks efficiently. LI.FI tackles this challenge head-on with their SDK, bringing a fresh approach to cross-chain ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has delivered an excellent first budget. It could easily be described as the best budget so far this century and presented in the most dire economic circumstances in ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) and his National Peoples Power (NPP) ministerial team are a mixed group of different shades of leftists. But AKD is the most experienced of them in ...