Growing up in Colombo, I was first exposed to the transgender community as a university student. I would return home every Summer and spend two glorious months in the island before returning to London.

Sri Lanka is presently experiencing a tremendous economic crisis. Several knowledgeable persons describe the current period as the worst-ever phase in the Island nation’s 75-year post-Independence history.

With the increase in egg prices the government decided to import eggs to regulate its price. Although it was a good move, there was talk....

In order to critically discuss a movement, we must first understand its etymology. The word, ‘woke,’ has become a buzzword across today’s media outlets,

Many battles were fought during the long war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Among these was the five-day battle fought at Ananthapuram in the Mullaitheevu District from March 31 to April 4, 2009.

When can one say they’ve had enough of being in a state of ‘wokeness’ and crawl and go back to sleep?

Members of a dozen Sri Lankan Tamil families gathered in the evening at the residence of a fellow Tamil in Switzerland in early November 2022.

With the emergence of armed rebellion in the 70s to carve out a separate state in the North and East for ethnic Tamils, the Police in the course of their duties had to face armed attacks carried out by the armed groups.

“Decriminalisation is an extremely important and long overdue step. It will show that the law, rightfully, does not view same-sex relationships as an offence, a wrong or something that requires state interference....

Jaffna City the capital of Sri Lanka’s predominantly Tamil speaking northern province was described as the cultural capital of the Tamils of Sri Lanka during its halcyon days.

Habarana, a biodiversity hotspot and a sensitive environment for elephants and other fauna and flora, has been chosen as the location for an event titled ‘Deep Jungle Fest’ and scheduled to be held from February 17-20....

40 years ago on February 13, 1983, a privately owned Lear jet flew out of Malaysia’s Subang Airport at 8.41 p.m. with six on board.

The ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka had hampered his marketing job and thus, when he heard he could earn US$1,000 a month at an IT job in Thailand, he jumped at the chance. Little did he know....

*Velayuthan and his family live next to the Kinthusity Cemetery in Kalaimathy, off Puttur in Jaffna. Every day when they wake up, they worry about the possibility of smoke drifting over from the open-air cemetery ....

The resplendent Island of Sri Lanka celebrates her seventy-fifth anniversary of Independence from Britain today - February 4th 2023.

Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) and Nuwara-Eliya district MP Jeevan Kumaravel Thondaman, was inducted as Cabinet Minister into the Government headed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe last week.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) with 10 seats in Parliament is currently facing an internal crisis.

Should we spare the rod and spoil the child? Does it really happen? Children are the future. When they come into this world,

Sandya Kumari from Kotahena has been experiencing chest pains since 2015 and the doctor has recommended bypass surgery. But she has been unable to get the test done before a bypass....

History was made last week when two former executive presidents of Sri Lanka were sanctioned by the Government of Canada.

“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.....

Friends,Family members, colleagues, schoolmates and admirers of Lasantha Wickrematunge are scheduled to meet on Sunday January 8th at the Kanatte cemetery in Borella.

Iresha Shyamali was exhausted from a two-day pilgrimage in Anuradhapura.

The had a candid interaction with former President Maithripala Sirisena on his presidency, up and downs of his political

It took a few days of unprecedented mass protests, the largest since the Tiananmen demonstrations in 1989, for the Chinese authorities to ditch the rigid zero covid policies that were, needlessly, in force for nearly three years. However, the

Sandya Ekneligoda, wife of missing journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda, has been fighting a lone battle for 12 long years to seek justice for her husband. In January 2022, Sandya made a vow to Goddess Kali....

Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) leader and Colombo District MP, Mano Ganesan received a telephone call from Ranil Wickremesinghe on 19 July 2022

“Imagine a world that deserves our best where we get up each day knowing that we can make a difference,” says the first female.....

The sugar scam amounting up to 16 billion rupees has again become a hot topic for discussion. Those involved in this scam were accused of evading paying government tax. Businessmen with close....

A. M. Sugath Premalal hails from Ranawarawa and has lived with the human-elephant conflict ever since he can remember.