Bell 212 accident during passing out parade kills six military personnel, injures six others A Bell 212 helicopter, belonging to...
Nearly half a century has passed since the Catholic Church last had an Italian Pope. In the hallowed corridors of...
By Norman Palihawadane The Kalutara North Police said that a woman was arrested on Wednesday (14) for carrying heroin to give to an inmate of the...
Concluding installment by Capt. FRAB Musafer, 4th Rgt. SLA (Retd.) Tissamaharama was relatively peaceful with hardly any offensive insurgent activity. The police had regained their confidence...
ECONOMYNEXT –The Supreme Court has declined leave to proceed and dismissed cases filed by several individuals and a trade union against the planned privatization of Sri...
by Bhante S. Dhammika of Australia Humour (Pali parihasa) is the characteristic of something that evokes laughter or at least a smile. Having a sense of...
Can the jvp withstand Sinhala-Buddhist racism? N.M.’s heritage by Kumar David “Fascism is a religion. The 20th century will be known as the Century of Fascism.”...
I had the pleasure and privilege to be invited to the launch of a book on the Kandalama hotel project. To those in the hotel industry...
by Patricia Melander The price of food There seems to be complete disconnect between power and the elites and the people who provide our food. Because...
“November 3, 1956, became a day of history. On that magical night, on the Lionel Wendt stage, Maname was born.” – Shyamon Jayasinghe. In the photographs...
I am a lighthouse rather than a lifeboat. I do not rescue, but instead help others to find their way to shore, guiding them by my...
(Excerpted from Chosen Ground: the Clara Motwani Saga by Goolbai Gunasekera There were four of us … Maya, Kumari, Suriya and I. “We are sisters under...
by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha I was invited a couple of weeks back by Mala Weerasekera to the launch of a book about her life, her family...
(Excerpted from A Cabinet Secretary’s Memoirs by BP Peiris) G. G. Ponnambalam, always smartly dressed, was one of the few Ministers who came to a meeting...