Sometimes travel gives you the funniest surprises ,like realizing dogs in Sri Lanka don’t speak English. During our stay, we ...

The winner, also of the State Literary Award, Chandrarathna Bandara is testimony to the richness of our local literary ...

Language gaps left Tamil-speaking communities dangerously unprepared as Cyclone Ditwah triggered deadly floods and landslides.

On November 28, Sundaram Thevapalan (36) and his family had to wade through Colombo’s flood waters to find shelter. They received no alerts of 200 mm of rainfal ...

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The greatest threat to stability today is not ideology or invasion, but the collapse of political legitimacy.” .

A migrant staying in a UK taxpayer-funded asylum hotel has been charged with abducting and raping a 15-year-old girl in west London.

President Anura Kumara Dissaayake’s determination to ‘repeal and replace’ Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) with a law that balances security concerns and civil liberties for ‘rights ...

Realizing his mistake, Kulasinghe invited me to participate at the meeting despite my role as briefcase carrier On that ...

Sri Lankan Chief Justice Padman Surasena discusses judicial similarities with India, AI in courts, mediation benefits, and the need for regional judicial dialogue.

A new batch arrived at our Faculty again. Students representing almost all districts of the country remind me once again of the wonderful opportunity we have for promoting social and ethnic cohesion ...

His compatriots know him as a novelist. But scholars say he must be acknowledged as a modernist intellectual, significant for ...