New study finds that the Covid-19 variant’s rapid spread is caused by infected persons who feel fine even after infection

The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) recently announced that carrying the vaccination card will be made mandatory for people.....

At a time when the country’s healthcare system has been inundated with daily admissions of COVID patients and a high mor

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

COVID- 19 has been a part of our lives for more than a year now, but like how everything in this world, mutates and evolves- the virus....

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....

Justice Minister Ali Sabry takes questions regarding the process of amending the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act and others. In his interview, he also responds matters related to cases under the PTA. The Excerpt

Shelton Ranaraja known to many as “Shelly Aiya” passed away on August 11, 2011. Shelton or Shelly Aiya was a politician for whom I have the greatest respect.

A recent video that has been posted to YouTube on July 27, 2021 by Ama Dissanayake caused quite a stir in Sri Lanka this week.

Sivaji Ganesan, M.G. Ramachandran (MGR) and Gemini Ganesan comprised the triumvirate that dominated Tamil cinema in India from the fifties to the seventies of the 20th century.

When a child is physically harmed or sexually abused, the ideal response is for Doctors to treat injuries, therapists to counsel the child, law enforcement officers to arrest the offender, and Attorneys to prosecute the offender.

Founded in 1929, making it the oldest and also the largest Rotary Club in Sri Lanka, the Rotary Club of Colombo held a virtual installation to induct its 93rd club president, Rtn. Aroshi Nanayakkara.

Sadly the cohort of perpetrators include egotistical leaders, coaches and even some members of the governing body of the school

July 24, 1983 was the day on which a destructive spree of anti-Tamil violence commenced in Jaffna in the early hours of the morning and began spreading to Colombo in the later hours of the evening on the same day.

Basil Rohana Rajapaksa was sworn in as Finance minister in the Government of Sri Lanka by his brother President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on July 8, 2021.

The Yala National Park has been at the receiving end of human disturbances from time to time. Be it a traffic jam to spot a leopard....

Sri Lankan politics has been a good deal of family business. It was not even the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the progenitor of the SLPP that started it; D.S. Senanayake, the first prime minister flouted an implicit understanding of the succession and u

This is the roadmap of Zimbabwe

Writer Kanya D’Almeida became the first Sri Lankan to win the ‘Commonwealth Short Story Prize’ awarded for the best new writing.....

On July 8 (Thursday) we saw diametrically opposite results because the security forces are apparently being used for the government’s objectives.

Voices of dissent are growing in the country. The latest individuals to take to the streets were the undergraduates of Rajarata University.

As nurses launch strike, doctors charge that critical patient care was compromised

Vacancies for Principals in local schools are yet to be filled. Trade Union representatives complain that many issues have arisen....

In keeping with the practice of devoting at least one article each month to a cinema-related topic, this column focuses on the popular Sinhala film actor Tony Ranasinghe this week.

The law states that it’s an offence to rape or abuse a child below 16 years of age with or without consent

Influential presidential sibling Basil Rajapaksa is tipped to be sworn in as a National List MP next week when his two-week quarantine after returning from a holiday in the United States ends. That would be the precursor to be appointed as the M

There was considerable political excitement some days ago, when a meeting was scheduled between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).

A month after the X-press Pearl inferno, carcasses of approximately 100 sea turtles and 46 cetaceans (aquatic mammals including dolphins.....

The media exposed an incident involving the breaking the seal on a lorry loaded with 20 tons of salt dispatched from the Hambantota....