The Department of Agriculture was one of the few government departments that functioned away from Colombo. It was located in Peradeniya. It was one of the...
This is an account about the Industrial action taken by British doctors. They have indeed become more militant lately. These are about the events from the...
Cyclone Ditwah has left an unprecedented trail of destruction almost islandwide, causing severe damage through heavy rains, landslides and crop damage in different agro ecological regions...
A Plea of the Wildlife & Nature Protection Society There will be future cyclones and other such natural cataclysms as the warming equatorial seas result in...
Small Wild Cats While the Sri Lankan Leopard rightly commands global attention, three of the country’s three wild cat species quietly live on the margins of...
When Cyclone Ditwah roared across the island on November 27 and 28, 2025, it left behind a landscape scarcely recognisable to its own inhabitants—homes reduced to...
Sri Lankan marine researchers have formally documented the presence of the rare and Vulnerable Three-Spot Seahorse (Hippocampus trimaculatus) in Sri Lankan waters for the first time,...
During the recent Ditwah cyclone, elephants were seen floating in treeless floodplains that were once their forest habitats. On a good-weather day in 2017, near Kokilai,...
The US-China rivalry could be said to make-up the ‘stuff and substance’ of world politics today but rarely does the international politics watcher and student of...
Tropical Cyclone Ditwah, which made landfall in Sri Lanka on 28 November 2025, is considered the country’s worst natural disaster since the deadly 2004 tsunami. It...