… Warns would-be polluters of criminal prosecution, hefty fines and even blacklisting The Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) has warned...
A 10-member delegation from Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice P. Padman Surasena, departed to New Delhi on...
New South Wales Police say 15 people, including a 10 year old girl were killed in a shooting at Bondi...
The ninth phase of the islandwide programme to recognise outstanding achievers at the G.C.E. Advanced Level implemented by the Presidential...
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that education should not be a burden to children during the recovery period after...
India reclaimed the series lead by bowling South Africa out for 117 in seam-friendly conditions in Dharamsala. Arshdeep Singh and...
New South Wales Police say that nine people were killed in a shooting at Bondi Beach Hanukkah event was being...
The Landslide Early Warning Center of the National Building Research Organisation [NBRO] has issued landslide early warnings to the Districts...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has instructed officials to give top priority to restoring the livelihoods of communities affected by the...
Police and school officials in the United States are asking residents of Providence, Rhode Island, to shelter in place after...
A member of England’s security staff was involved in an altercation with a Channel Seven camera operator at Brisbane airport....
A five wicket haul by Sethmika Seneviratne helped Sri Lanka under 19s register an 8 wicket win over Nepal in ...
I never imagined I would be writing this posthumous Appreciation of my niece Anusha Navaratne, President’s Counsel, whom as a toddler I wheeled about in the...
Excerpted fro Memories That Linger… .. by Padmani Mendis (Continued from Apr. 9) As soon as I was able to, I went into the city to...
The Chinese Embassy tweet on the toque monkey export issue that grabbed media and public attention in recent days has ended the brouhaha like a proverbial...
125th birth anniversary Remembered in the Centenary Year of Rahula College, Matara The Late Gurudeva D. J. Kumarage, born in 1898, and his 125th birth anniversary...
Sr. Maria Cruz Moja Landaluce was born on July 7, 1931 to Pedro Moja and Rufina Landaluce a very fervent Catholic couple in Vizcaya in the...
by Rajan Philips It is now 16 years since Kumar David and I became beneficiaries of the editorial indulgence of Manik de Silva at the Sunday...
By Uditha Devapriya Immediately after independence, the Sri Lankan Left faced an ideological dilemma for which it had not really been prepared. The government, headed by...
‘As for man his days are numbered. As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. The wind passes over it, and it is gone, And...
by Dr Nihal Jayawickrama It is difficult to comprehend why the Government is seeking to introduce a monstrosity of a Bill, ostensibly to combat terrorism, when...
(The war years) Excerpted from Chosen Ground: The Clara Motwani Saga by Goolbai Gunasekara When war broke out in 1939 its reverberations were worldwide, of course....
by Prof Manouri Senanayake, President Servants of the Buddha Nestled behind the Mettarama temple in Lauries Road Bambalapitiya and accessed through the gates of the hallowed...
Historic and most noteworthy is that England, Scotland and Ireland have people of Indian and Pakistani descent as their heads of government. Remarkable, as India was...
