By Tisaranee Gunasekara For King Dutugemunu there is no rest. With distressing regularity, he is summoned in the service of ...

George E de Silva was the Member for Kandy in the State Legislative Assembly before Ceylon gained Independence. He was ...

Ronnie de Mel wooed back to the UNP During my discussions with the President it became clear that he would like to have ...

Long-simmering religious tensions between Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority and Muslim minority are fanning false claims that ...

Sinhalese Buddhism has made no significant contribution to the evolution of a non-violent social ideology” – Jayadeva Uyangoda. Just like evergreen songs – Sinhala Buddhi ...

A year after the leftist National People’s Power (NPP) coalition won an unprecedented supermajority in Sri Lanka’s November 2024 parliamentary elections—with support from both the majority Sinhala ...

Sepalika is the name of a flower. It also evokes songs by Srilankan singers Karunarathna Divulgane and Jayasiri Amarasekara.

The Ministry of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education has introduced an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered ...

By the time this column appears, days after Finance Minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake, also the president of Sri Lanka among other portfolios, which has now become a habit of incoming heads of state, ...

With no timeline of completion set, community members want the project to be inclusive of all the vast cultures and South ...

Meanwhile, the Muslim and or Moor population has increased to 2.283 million from 1.892m, the census has reported, a growth rate of 1.5%. They make up 10.5% of the entire population of Sri Lanka, ...

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj (S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike, the fourth Prime Minister of Independent Sri Lanka known then as Ceylon was the target of an assassination attempt on September 25th 1959. He succumbed to his ...