On the same day President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, contrary to his stance on Tamil politicians called on the Tamil leaders of the North and the East to support his government, the same Tamil leaders....

You are already a cyborg.The moment you have a device in your hand your are a cyborg, I heard someone saying.

A union attached to the National Zoological Gardens in Dehiwala, which recognises itself as the ‘SLP union’, staged a protest yesterday, demanding a risk allowance of Rs. 5,000 sources said. The group claims that they haven’t been paid the allo

Former President of the Bar Association Upul Jayasuriya, PC, will deliver the Daya Weththasinghe Memorial Oration at the Sasakawa Hall on January 26 at 5:30 p.m.

By the time you are reading this newspaper, Sri Dalada Maligawa would be a hive of activity to offer 32 measures of cooked rice to the Sacred Tooth Relic.

In order to become the first country to practice organic only agriculture, the cabinet of Sri Lanka on April 29, 2021 approved a ban.....

As a country and a nation, we are becoming the scum of Asia, not its miracle as some bellowed from roof-tops and election platforms sometime back, as well as a country at loggerheads with itself with an array of problems and issues still at bay in ne

I would like to congratulate Law and Human Rights Centre for continuing to organize this important course on human rights and all those who will be awarded certificates after having completed the course. I will share some thoughts about the w

The species commonly known in India as the “Indian Red Scorpion, would be the sixteenth species of scorpion found in Sri Lanka according to the researchers

Sri Lanka aims to be an energy self-sufficient nation by 2030. Right now, the primary sources of generating electricity include thermal, including coal and fossil fuels, hydropower and other non-conventional renewable energy sources such as solar and

The question of what happens after death naturally arises in the mind of thoughtful people, as we do not know what lies beyond death, because no one has ever returned to the living to recount his experiences...

Barring scholars, very few in Sri Lanka would know, or readily acknowledge that in the past Buddhism had flourished among the Tamils both in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. There was “Pali” Buddhism....

It was painful and tough; Left the biggest ever void in my life; Tore me completely apart; Brought me down mentally; below zero;

Initiatives in Development of Entrepreneur Approaches and Strategies (I/D/E/A/S) and Lanka Rain Water Harvesting Forum (LRWHF) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for a period of three (3) years to collaborate in providing financial and t

On October 9, 2021 the Vatican announced the appointment of Rt. Rev. Dr. Valence Mendis (Bishop of Chilaw) as the Bishop of Kandy by His Holiness Pope Francis,

Joseph Vaz was born on April 21 in 1651 in the Portuguese colony of Goa in India. The house of his grandparents, where he was born in the little hamlet of Benaulim, still exists, as does the font at which he was baptised.

The Institute of Urban Designers recently hosted Sri Lanka’s first-ever National Urban Design Forum.

The Hindus had realized the importance of the Sun since the Vedic times (c6000 BC). In Hinduism the Gāyathrī Mantra is dedicated to Savitṛi, a Vedic Sun Deity.

Thai Pongal is regarded as one of the most important festivals among the Tamil Hindu Festivals. It is widely celebrated in India and all over the world by the Hindus. The Thai Pongal festival takes place on the first day of the Tamil month of Thai.

The Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre (SVCC), High Commission of India, Colombo, will have an online Lecture cum Bharatha Natyam recital by Dr. Subashini Pathmanathan (renowned Bharatha Natyam artiste & scholar),

Mixed media artist Chathuranga Gamage will hold his exhibition titled Landscape on January 14, 15 and 16, 2022 at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery....

Questions have been raised as to why the Ministry of Power has appointed a person linked to controversy- as he is allegedly....

When it comes to Christmas, you know the spirit of the festival is in the air. Truth be told, how could you not? Sri Lanka’s Friendship.....

The art industry in Sri Lanka always had its fair share of challenges and the pandemic hasn’t made it any easier for many of the artists....

One of the greatest Jurists the world had ever seen was Judge G. Christopher Weeramantry. We lost him on January 5, 2017. What made....

The Taliban have been urging Washington to unfreeze roughly $9.4 billion in Afghanistan’s central bank assets

When the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, visited the Tamil majority Northern Province in mid-December, he did things no envoy of Communist China had done before. Ambassador Qi....

UdayaKantha Warnasuriya’s new film Ginimal Pokuru is worth watching. I haven’t seen all his films; nor have I had much good to say about the few I have watched, but this film is commendable....

Undaunted by Covid restrictions and undeterred by intermittent closure of schools, St. Cecilia’s Choir of St. Joseph’s College went on to conduct the annual Carols Service in all its splendour, whilst adhering to all mandatory health regulations.

Pomegranate is a fruit with full of nutritional factors in each part of it; and this gives a high medicinal value to it. It can be cultivated in both cold and hot climates,