Sri Lanka’s environmental protection framework is rapidly eroding, with weak law enforcement, politically driven development and the routine sidelining of...
IGP Priyantha Weerasooriya has issued a letter, warning police officers against presenting gifts to senior officers during festivals or special...
Family sources have confirmed that the interment of singer Latha Walpola will be performed at the General Cemetery Borella on...
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been jailed for 15 years for abuse of power and money laundering, in...
New York has woken up to its heaviest snowfall in nearly four years after a winter storm blanketed parts of...
Thousands of flights have been cancelled and delayed in the United States due to winter storm Devin, airline monitoring website...
Thailand and Cambodia said they have signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of fierce fighting along their border that...
Sri Lankan singer Latha Walpola has passed away today (27) at the age of 92.
All the three games in this series have followed a similar pattern so far. India have won three tosses –...
For the first time in 19 matches, and nearly 15 years, England’s men experienced a Test victory in Australia as...
Shafali Verma continued her superb form, cracking a 42-ball 79 as India brushed aside Sri Lanka once again to win...
With the recriminations well underway from an Ashes defeat, compounded by the fallout from some rather embarrassing off-field shenanigans, England were momentarily...
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...
by Nihal Seneviratne It is with a small sense of pride that I record that most of the boys who joined Royal in January 1945, calling...
By a tragic coincidence, the day after Part 1 of this article was published, we received the news that Dr Rudran had passed away in Orlando,...
