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 ...

Three Churches and four Hotels in Colombo,Negombo and Batticaloa were attacked in the morning of 21st April 2019 (Easter Sunday) by suicide bombers belonging to an Islamic radical group. 270 persons ...

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 ...

Nallakannu was born in 1925 (on December 25), coincidentally also the year the CPI was founded. Last year, there were centenary celebrations for both the party and its eminent leader. It was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Martin Wickramasinghe was 83, and revered as the doyen of Lankan belles lettres when he wrote Bava Taranaya. He had long wanted to write a biography of the Buddha shorn of myths and might have ...

The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi (ITAK) has appointed Batticaloa District MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam as its new Parliamentary Group leader, replacing Jaffna District MP Sivagnanam Shritharan following ...