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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nagalingam Sanmugathasan known to many as ‘Shan” and/or “Comrade Shan” was a dynamic leader produced by the leftist movement in Sri Lanka. “Comrade” Shan was arguably the last great Maoist of Sri ...

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 ...