Ursula Kemp was a strong-willed woman. That may have been one reason she eventually ended up on the gallows. A midwife and healer in the small English village of St Osyth, Kemp
“Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.” – Eddie Rickenbacker International Civil Aviation Day, celebrated annually on the 7th of December, commemorates the advancements
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by Luxman Aravind Amidst a nation walking on a knife-edge in terms of its economy, this tear-drop shaped island finds itself ensnared in a troubling paradox: a government wielding an overwhelming supermajority
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Rumors circulating on French social media suggest that President Emmanuel Macron might invoke Article 16 of the French Constitution, granting him exceptional powers. This article, which has only
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by Our Political Affairs Editor Among Sri Lanka’s self-proclaimed “intellectuals,” few figures have stirred as much intrigue and scepticism as Dr Ashoka Sapumal Ranwala, a prominent member of the National Executive Committee
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A cascade of anti-French sentiment continues to sweep across the belt of the Sahel in Africa: joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Chad and Senegal demanded in November that the French government withdraw its military from
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Commemorating LTTE’s Prabhakaran, JVP’s Wijeweera and IS Zahran will not help us to build harmony, stability or prosperity. The surge of support should be harnessed by the leaders, their parties and the
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During the suppression of the JVP under the Premadasa government, most of the JVP politburo members were killed. The sole survivor of this onslaught was Somawansa Amarasinghe, who fled Sri Lanka. He
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Finance Minister Anil Jayantha Fernando presented an interim budget to Parliament today, which includes a significant increase in the government’s borrowing limit to Rs. 4,000 billion. This increase was proposed to cover
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Editorial Minister of Health and Media Nalinda Jayatissa, in parliament yesterday, asserted that “racism will not be allowed to rear its head” and the threat of new laws to combat it is
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Sri Lanka is home to the world’s first female Prime Minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, yet it remains a country with one of the lowest levels of female representation in parliament globally. Despite this,
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