This year’s Aluth Avurudda is being celebrated today in the traditional manner with customs from time immemorial. The ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to look into a request made by the four Mahanayaka Theras to allow full Buddhist ...

Meanwhile, Trump’s staggering US tariffs worldwide have not only threatened the longstanding ground rules in world trade but also undermined the Geneva-based World Trade Organisation (WTO), described ...

Trump announced a three-month pause Wednesday on all the “reciprocal” tariffs that had gone into effect hours earlier – with ...

The annual Nuwara Eliya spring festival started with a bang on April 1, with a performance by 18 percussion bands featuring ...

In the current geopolitical context, this MoU can only be considered a further strategic move by India in view of China’s growing presence in the region, particularly in the ocean. One can imagine ...

Avurudu Kumaraya, could you also gift Anura sahodaraya with a few more men and women who know what to say and when to say it ...

The oldest member at the Dehiwala National Zoological gardens, the giant tortoise, who is around 153 years, will be among the animals selected for the traditional New Year oil anointing ceremony on ...

The shockwave created by the imposition of a 44 per cent “reciprocal tariff” by the United States on imports from Sri Lanka ...

The government will seek concessions from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for its 48-month Extended Fund Facility with Sri Lanka to offset the impact of the US tariffs on the economy, a senior ...

One was reminded last week of bombast at home when the ruling National Peoples Power, led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, stomped the campaign trail ahead of the presidential election and later the ...

In India’s Lok Sabha (the lower house of parliament), seats are generally apportioned according to population: more people usually means more seats. Since whoever controls a majority of seats in the ...