As illegal development activity on Mandaitivu linked to the Jaffna International Cricket Stadium of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) was halted by the country’s environmental watchdog, a powerful call went out ...

A divorce petition has been filed before the District Court at Chengalpattu seeking dissolution of marriage between Sangeetha Vijay and actor-politician Vijay (née C Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar) under ...

Commercial and Industrial Workers’ Union (CIWU) President Swasthika Arulingam said the annual conversations about women’s rights often fail to reflect the lived realities of garment workers.

Former State Intelligence Services (SIS) Chief Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay has been arrested in connection with ongoing investigations into the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, Police ...

COLOMBO — For its $15 billion Port City Colombo project, Sri Lanka has launched a new campaign aimed at global investors, offering major tax breaks and full foreign ownership as it tries to position ...

A Sangha convention titled “Maha Sangha Convention” was held on February 20th at the headquarters of the Buddhist Maha Sammelanaya with the objective of informing the public about the pressures ...

Likewise in Sri Lanka the President and leader of the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)led National People’s Power (NPP) Government is Anura Kumara Dissanayake. However it is widely believed that ...

Recently our country suffered one of its worst ever environmental crises – the Ditwah cyclone. “The hills are crumbling and crushing us,” one friend declared when she saw the landslides, rubble and ...

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s highly inappropriate jocularity in Parliament this week when commenting about the ‘Public Trust’ Doctrine only reinforces the (unfortunately) pejorative stamp of his ...

Lakshman Kadirgamar’s 18th death anniversary was observed last Saturday. The former foreign minister fell victim to a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) sniper in Colombo on 12 August 2005.

Ranwala Arachchige Asoka Sapumal Ranwala blazed across the parliamentary skies of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka for a brief period .The National People’s Power(NPP) Gampaha district ...