In a significant move aimed at steering Sri Lanka’s environmental governance towards a more science-based and evidence-driven path, the Ministry of Environment has initiated a new...
Niluk Uswaththa, of Seven Notes fame, based in Dubai, surprised many when he and his wife Apeksha, turned up in Colombo, last week … unannounced. Yes,...
Free Education has been with us for more than 80 years now. It predates independence. One of its clearest objectives was to give the people, far...
Songs of the ’70s are still very popular with Sri Lankans here and abroad and the organisers, in Toronto, Canada, are all geared up to give...
‘The treason of the intellectuals’ in the age of populism – Part I Sri Lankans recently celebrated the fourth anniversary of the Aragalaya, which, some believe, ushered in...
For quite a few decades,we have nonchalantly operated under a comforting and standard assumption that our bodies are our ultimate legal deeds. The features of every...
A groundbreaking international study, spanning 17 years, has revealed an alarming rise in human-caused deaths of the endangered Sri Lankan leopard, with the majority of fatalities...
GALLE– A pioneering scientific study conducted by an international team of Sri Lankan and Japanese researchers has delivered a wake-up call regarding the deteriorating health of...
May Day can mean one of many things. In European countries it is a festival, dating back nearly a thousand years, celebrating the beginning of the...
“The elephant is crashing about in the room, trampling people to death, and politely ignoring it is no longer an option”. AC Grayling (To Set Prometheus...