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The government’s decision to build an international cricket stadium in Homagama has come in for criticism more than praise.
The first rugby team from parts beyond the seas to play in Sri Lanka, as per the recorded history of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (now Sri Lanka Rugby), was the “All Blacks” Northern Union team. They arrived in Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was t
Amid the government’s ongoing measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 - one being the spraying of disinfectant in the belief it would kill the unseen virus - comes the recent situation report issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) that spray
Many celebrated writers flocked to Spain in 1936 to defend the Spanish Republic. Among them was the poet W.H. Auden, who served as an ambulance driver. Auden wrote ‘Spain, 1939’ as a call to arms. This is how the poem ended:
The countries in the world are racing against time to develop a vaccine to fight COVID-19. An urgency is felt because of the Coronavirus taking its toll continually on human lives and economic activities. In fact, the entire world has ground to a vir
On 31 December 2019, the WHO Country Office in China was notified of pneumonia of unknown causes and this novel disease was renamed as COVID- 19 on 11 February 2020.
In the context of the present pandemic, the recent message from the Holy Father is a message that needs to be thought about very deeply, pondered on profoundly and applied to our daily lives.
Last week Facebook finally admitted to and apologised for something that has not been a secret. It apologised for the role played by the platform in the March 2018 riots.
The old trees in Colombo, especially those in the Colombo 7 and Colombo 3 areas, have been adding to the city beauty for decades.
Daily Mirror spoke to Brito Fernando, a well-known long-standing Human Rights activist and trade unionist who recently waged a battle for animal rights....
Health and defence authorities on Sunday claimed that they have contained the coronavirus threat in the country, as no infections have been reported for the past two weeks outside the navy cluster and quarantine centres which are under their microsco
Sri Lanka appears to have contained the Coronavirus more successfully than its peers. That the new patients have not been foun
In December 2019, the world was gradually becoming aware that a deadly new disease was making its way via the city of Wuhan in China and spreading like wildfire.
Named after the Dutch General Hulft, who was shot by Portuguese in 1656— the place where the gruesome murder took place was named Hulft’s Dorp...
Former Jaffna District Parliamentarian and Spokesperson of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and Illankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK), Mathiaparanan Abraham Sumanthiran is currently in the eye of a political storm. The YouTube interview given by the 56-ye
The present crisis has undoubtedly brought misery and hardship to most segments of society in a magnitude unseen before and from the Sri Lankan perspective, the worst-affected appear to be our migrant workers stranded all over the world.
During the past four months after the volcanic eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, most families have been virtually forced to stay at home.
On 12 May, writing a detailed piece to “Daily FT” on the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) debacle the previous day, Nisthar Cassim titled it “Stock market loses Rs. 84 b in seconds”.
It seems that only one cluster of Coronavirus infected persons –the Navy cluster that constitutes half of the total infected persons so far - is active now in Sri Lanka
Parents would be anxious when their children return to school following the resumption of classroom sessions in the near future.
Yesterday was Al Nakba day – the day on which the freedom-denied Palestinian people remember the catastrophe that hit them 72 years ago.
(Dr) Jayampathy Wickramaratne, President’s Counsel, is absolutely spot on when he says “The doctrine of necessity is not a panacea for all ills, not a “kokatath thailaya” (see his article, ‘Doctrine of Necessity: Can it be invoked to govern
The police curfew imposed in the high-risk zones of the Colombo and Gampaha Districts is to continue until further notice, while in the other 23 districts it will be lifted at 5am and re-imposed at 8pm daily.
COVID-19 has brought about shape shifting in many an aspect of public life in the world. So to speak, it is bound to make way for a new culture of political campaigning for elections on the cards in Sri Lanka. It is realistic because people, though u
These are days when small batches of Sri Lankan emigrants are heading home due to the threat posed by COVID-19. The return of these batches is facilitated by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. In such an environment one wonders what the future would be fo
Seventeen European nations have pledged to make climate change a part of their economic and social recovery agenda of the coronavirus pandemic.
The decision by the government to ease lockdown restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation was obviously motivated mainly....
Now we, especially those living in Colombo and Gampaha Districts are enjoying a new kind of freedom which interestingly we ourselves ha
Sri Lanka would be limping back to normalcy in the coming days as much of the restrictions were relaxed, and a curfew that lasted for seven weeks was finally removed in all but Colombo and Gampaha districts, effective from yesterday.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the tiny but prosperous Maldives hard. As per the latest figures given by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), 835 persons have been affected by the coronavirus so far. This is huge when seen against the total population
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