Curfews, lockdowns, or travel restrictions are generally understood as government regulations requiring people to remain indoors during specified hours.

Asia Pacific’s largest youth-led social entrepreneurship movement, co-led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Citi Foundation, culminated in the third Youth Co:Lab Regional Summit yesterday.

This article is about the life of the ‘Most Interesting Man’ I have ever known. Laki passed away in the morning of May 30 following a brief illness. Laki was known for great many things. He was an artist, a sculptor, gardener and had a significan

Successive governments have carried out massive propaganda campaigns to promote Sri Lanka as a maritime hub.

Frustration is growing among as many as 600,000 Sri Lankans awaiting the second dose of their AstraZeneca vaccine.

SL is not even a party to the HNS Convention (1996)

On the evening of April 5, the shortlist of the 28th Gratiaen Prize was announced by judges Ashok Ferrey, Mahendran Thiruvarangan, and Victoria Walker.

Panadura is a bustling southern coastal town with a population of about 265,700. She feeds many peripheral smaller towns...

On the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of Kithu-Dana-Pubuduwa, I too wish to pen a few lines, congratulating Fr. Oscar Abayaratne, the Founder of this charismatic Movement in Sri Lanka and its members for keeping alive the spirit of renewal in the Cat

2021 presented its fair share of challenges, complications and disappointments to every entity on this planet. The hope of a Pandemic-free future, barely within grasp, was quickly disregarded with the spread of an evolved variant which ran rampant wi

It is with deep sorrow that we mourn the passing away of our dear Aunty Rita.

The earth, as Pundit Nehru penned in his book, ‘The Discovery of India’, is less than a spec of dust in this vast, expansive and more than thirteen billion year-old universe.

Sri Lankan waters have been cast with an evil spell. As one of the most frequently used maritime routes, the Indian Ocean is likely to witness more maritime emergencies in time to come.

Bodhisattas, aspirants of Buddhahood practice ten transcendent virtues – crossing over ordinances-for gaining supreme enlightenment –Sammasambodhi. In Pali they are called Parami and in Sinhala we refer to them as Dasa Paramita.

“Monks, there is one person arising in the world who is unique, without a peer, without counterpart, incomparable, unequaled, matchless, unrivalled, the best of humans.

With the blissful feeling of Vesak in the air Buddhists are concerned whether they are able to realise the spiritual meaning....

Vesak is a very significant day for all Buddhists. It is the day Gautama Buddha was born, attained enlightenment and passed away.

The Vesak full moon day glorifies the three significant events of the life of Prince Siddhartha. Prince Siddhartha Gautama was born on Vesak full moon day.....

Coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp relief the concept of Impermanence (Annicca) propounded by the Lord Buddha.

State Minister Vidura Wickramanayka said that omitting Tamil in the plaque violated the official language policy in Sri Lanka

There were no vehicles to take him to the hospital due to the curfew imposed in Jaffna; by the time the land master reached the OLR church Jaffna, he had succumbed to his injuries

‘’ Chittavimutta ‘’ is the first book by Ven.Tissamaharama Sugathasiri Thera. The Ven. Sugathasiri Thera, who completed his Bachelors and Masters at the University of Kelaniya, selects a timely and interesti

The case drew publicity on how a core of ‘crookish ‘ public servants defrauded millions of government funds

Human activity continues to put immense pressure on the planet, leading to crises like COVID-19, climate change and mass extinctions becoming more evident. Business as usual is not an option anymore. It has become vital that we work with - and

The Asia-Pacific region has been termed the ‘clothing factory of the world’ as it accounts for 60 percent of the world’s total apparel exports according to statistics compiled by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The garment s

‘Speaker In You’ programme focuses on improving public speaking and presentation skills of corporate executives and higher

Around 100 farmers in the north central province of Sri Lanka have recently received insurance payouts for crop damage caused by excess rain.

Kingswood College - a College Par Excellence stepped into one hundred and thirty years on 4th May 2021, founded by a journalist and Historian....

My association with the Catholic Charismatic Movement in Sri Lanka, better known as the Kithu-dana-pubuduva (hence forward KDP), started with a rather bitter experience of antagonism, and its metamorphosis into one of close collaboration with its Fou