“On the ill-fated day of 21st of April 2019, this island home was awoken rudely to witness one of its most tragic events in the annuls of its history and in a series of bomb explosions that sent the nation.....

Wilpattu National Park is the largest protected area for wildlife in Sri Lanka. Spanning across Puttalam and Anuradhapura districts whilst bordering Mannar and Vavuniya districts, the park owns a territory of 131, 656 hectares, also being the only pl

The annual family get-together of the Alumni Association of the University of Peradeniya, Colombo chapter will be held on Sunday, January 22 at the Birds Park, Buthgamuwa Road, Rajagiriya.

The Inter-House Drama Competition of St. Joseph’s College, organised by the English Literary Union in collaboration with the Cold Theatre 7, will be held on January 15 at 5.00 pm at the Lionel Wendt Theatre, Colombo 7.

Empty promises of accountability in the investigation of the Lasantha Wickrematunge murder

Smell-A collective cry against the hopelessness and despair that has become the hallmark of daily life in unstable Sri Lanka

Following the electricity tariff hike revision in August 2022, the Power and Energy Ministry announced another tariff hike that would have come into effect from January 1, 2023 on the basis that the tariff hike....

It all started with a wish to reach out to a world that seems to be slipping away.

It was the last Christmas weekend. As usual we were spending our Christmas holiday at Tal Sevana Hotel in Kankasanthurai.

Thank you for being a part of my life and calling me your friend. I hope you know now how much it meant and still means to me.

Indian Tamils were brought down to Sri Lanka by the British as a means of increasing the work force in the tea plantations.

The idea of God has been a constant source of debate and conflict throughout the world. The existence versus non-existence of God and all things related to him is a question that has baffled and plagued....

The MOBILISE project, funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) in the UK, is creating a digital infrastructure that can provide information to several agencies to collaborate in order....

Theatre, drama, dancing and music and various aesthetic influences were part and parcel of young Kanchanamala Ranasinghe, the daughter of Lionel and Malani Ranasinghe....

The Cabinet of Ministers yesterday granted approval to import eggs to control the local market price. Trade Minister Nalin Fernando submitted the proposal to the Cabinet of Ministers....

Today, a handful of Sri Lankan students who can afford to do so, migrate to other countries, not realising a future in Sri Lanka. In that respect, Dr Paneetha Hettiarachchi is a unique person who recently graduated from Sir John Kotelawala Academy

Prof. Atula Senaratne the Geologist and Kandy Mayor Kesara Senanayake both voice that floods in Kandy have been blamed on the illegal.....

For a Roman Catholic priest, the Ordination Ceremony is the glittering starting point of a journey when chosen to be a servant of God and then to be entrusted with the task of being devoted to the religion of Catholicism while undertaking the mission

Deshabandu Alec Robertson, [1928 – 2002], will be long remembered among the English-speaking Buddhists of Sri Lanka,

Sri Lanka Federation of University Women held its AGM on 10th December 10, 2022, at the Sri Lanka Federation of University Women (SLFUW) auditorium at Kitulwatte, in Colombo where Colonel (Retd.) Dr. Udula Krishnaratne was elected as its president.

Though the editorial of December 14 of the Daily Mirror is captioned as “Debt-Ridden ceb and the need for restructuring”, the rationale is not clear on many counts as to why we need to restructure a monolithic....

Intending to promote Sri Lankan tourism at a time when Sri Lanka is facing a dollar crunch due to the country’s worst socio-economic crisis since independence in 1948, the Japura tourism....

Slave Island, located within the city of Colombo is one of the busiest commercial areas in the city, with a large number of households crammed in between these commercial enterprises.

Irish Artist, Eric James Duhan recently visited Sri Lanka for the eleventh time. His fascination for Sri Lanka is very profound. He has travelled the world over many years and collected memories. The landscapes, the differing cultures and traditions

The dawn of 2023, the Grand New Year Eve 31st Night will be celebrated in style at the Poolside of Berjaya Hotel (Formerly Mount Royal) in Mt Lavinia.

For thousands of years, predictions of apocalypse have come and gone. But with dangers rising from nuclear war and climate change, does the planet need to at least begin contemplating.....

36,000 metric tonnes of Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) fertilizer are to be distributed to all paddy farmers in Sri Lanka through the Ministry of Agriculture, the Food and Agriculture Organization....

Christmas is the feast of God becoming human in Jesus, being born of the Virgin Mary, like one of us, in all things except sin (Phil 2: 7; Heb 4:15).

One of the most profound symbols associated with the Birth of Jesus at Christmas is the manger. Saint Luke in his Gospel narrates how the Virgin Mother “wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in

The Trinity College Old Boys Association Colombo Branch held its 114th Annual General Meeting at the Christ Church Galle Face on October 29, 2022. The AGM was preceded by a Thanksgiving Service....