For those struggling to make ends meet, particularly the rural poor, microfinancing is seen as a God send. Unable to obtain credit facilities through conventional methods they see these loans with manageable repayment methods as an answer to bettering...
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While she told the audience gathered at the Shangri-La hotel, that evening of March 8th, that ensuring peace and harmony for all could be achieved only if such values are imparted to children very early in life,...
Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith does not seem to be a happy man these days.
Well, he couldn’t, could he, when he finds himself between a rock and hard place?
The bone of contention is the recently released Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI)...
Confusion and miscommunication seems to be becoming the hallmark of this government.
Just like the many other instances where gazettes are issued, then cancelled, prices of goods are lowered officially, but consumers are told by vendors that there is no...
In filing a Fundamental Rights petition against the appointment of a woman officer to the post of Acting Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), the thirty two aggrieved Senior Superintendents of Police have placed the spotlight on a glaringly...
Gampaha Divisional Wildlife Officer Devani Jayathilake is one rare public servant! She is in the news again and for all the right reasons.
Unlike most public servants who are only too ready to do the bidding of their masters, whatever...
February 4th has come and gone, and Sri Lanka marked its 73rd year as an Independent country.
The celebration was not as grand as other years; the organisers thankfully seemed to have taken the Covid 19 pandemic and its consequences...
January is still Black!
Sri Lanka’s journalists begin each year remembering their colleagues who have paid a price for wielding the freedom of the pen and other forms of expression.
Some reports claim that in the past 35 years at least...
There was a post, more like a fence post, a silent sentinel at the main junction of my home town; a post I hardly looked at, though, tucked away in some part of my memory was the knowledge that...
With the Covid-19 pandemic showing no signs of abating just yet, there is every possibility that school kids will be staying at home for a while more. At least most of those residing in areas where the number of...
The Catholic Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith was in his element recently when he took up cudgels against those who are planning commercial development of the Muthurajawela wetlands.
He certainly did not mince his words when he reminded government...
That the Catholic Church has responded positively to a concern raised by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is certainly heart-warming, especially when most news one hears these days is about the coronavirus pandemic and its depressing outcomes.
On December...
