Success Colombo recently established the high flow oxygen system at Kalawana Base Hospital. The members of Success Colombo, their relatives, friends and philanthropists readily donated Rs. 2,084,692.00, to complete this project. With the i

There is such a thing as being overtaken by events. This is what’s been happening to us since the beginning of August. Life has been....

The Colombo Branch of the Old Boys Association of Trinity College Kandy went back to School yet again! Trinity College....

The Environmental Foundation (Guarantee) Limited (EFL), Sri Lanka’s first public interest organization working on environmental protection....

The Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) reactivated the 247 Doc Call Service in collaboration with the Health Ministry, Suwaseriya...

The public continues to question the accuracy of statistics revealed by the Health Ministry with regards to the number of COVID positive cases reported from around the country

In a democratic system, widely perceived view is that the majority opinion always counts. It is true. Likewise, another common perception is that governance is a smooth sail as long as an overwhelming majority of people are with the ruling side.

Dr. E.M.V.Naganathan, former Member of Parliament for Nallur and Senator (member of the senate or upper house of parliament) was one of the founding members of the Ilankai Thamizh Arasu Katchi (ITAK) or the Federal Party along with Mr.S.J.V.Chelvanay

He passed away 2 years ago (August 14, 2019) and I thought of reflecting upon a friend priest and a priestly icon. He was non other than the late Fr. Elmo Clarence Dias, a Moratu Puthra. He was our head prefect during our teens in the minor seminary

This letter penned on International Youth Day 2021 is inspired by conversations with young people in Sri Lanka, who have contributed to UNFPA’s International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action.

Sri Lankan lecturer in China, SugathRatnayake of the Department of Sinhala Studies at the Faculty of Foreign Languages,

For the first time in Sri Lankan history a popular rights activist and model will be representing the country at an International competition which is also a platform for LGBT and Human Rights.

Sri Lanka is experiencing one of the worst COVID outbreaks since the pandemic first struck the island last year. Photos of hospitals....

Sri Lanka is in crisis. Since April 2021, Sri Lanka saw a sharp increase of Covid-19 positive cases and deaths. Despite health....

On Wednesday (August 4) afternoon we walked into the Viharamahadevi Amphitheatre, which is now a 24 hour Vaccination Center. It was nearly empty except for a few people who were there to get their second dose of AstraZeneca. The visu

Many lives, both human and elephant, are lost as a result of the human-elephant conflicts that are prevalent in most parts of Sri Lanka. The number of victims (on both sides) and the intensity of occurrences has been increasing over th

If the analysis of the current Sri Lankan regime as being ethno-majoritarian and militaristic holds true, then the SLPP....

Across the world, governments are wrestling with the question of how to address misinformation in society. Misinformation.....

I met Chris last year on a beautiful evening in Singapore. We took a cab to a restaurant in Mount Faber for dinner. It took only twenty minutes to get there, but during the ride, I felt as if I had known him all my life. He was open like a book, hear

Dr. R. O. B. Wijesekera, the doyen of Natural Product Chemistry, and a much loved figure among all those he worked with passed away on July 13, 2021 after a brief illness. He was 92 at the time of death. Knowing his abiding love of cricket, he would

Elizabeth Senanayake was the Vice Principal and a teacher during my schooling (1979 to 1992) at Sacred Heart Convent, Galle.

Jayati Weerakoon passed away on July 29, 2021 in Austin, Texas. He was born in 1928 in Madakumburumulla, Sri Lanka.

A tsunami of protests led by teachers and principals from around the island continued and they request the government to solve a salary....

With an accelerated vaccine drive ongoing, Sri Lanka is well on its way to achieve its vaccination goals ahead of the September target set out by the World Health Organization.

Sigiriya, considered to be one of the most valuable historical monuments in Sri Lanka, has long been renowned as an architectural wonder of urban planning and engineering, and a UNESCO world heritage site since 1982.

The digital world plays an important role in our lives today. Intellectual Property law is one of many legal frameworks....

In the journey of finding hidden talents of Sri Lankan youth and their unsung contribution to the nation, Women in Management....

Civil society groups, state university representatives, academics, leftist and socialist movements have rallied together to protest against the proposed Kotelawala National Defense University (KNDU) Bill. One of the main concerns is w

Today we wish to remember and pay tribute to Dr Ashley Godwin Senarath-Dassanayake who passed away on 3rd August 1997, a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists UK, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and MBBS

Education could well be one of the most discussed but least researched subjects in Sri Lanka. In that context, Prof. Panduka Karunanayake’s....