When Dr. Cyril Antony introduced Taekwondo to Sri Lanka on December 12, 1976 he had a vision to spread the sport across the country. In December last year (2021) he was the centre of attraction...

World Vision Lanka (Guarantee) Limited has sent a letter of demand to Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole and his daughter following an article he has written making references to World Vision Lanka....

Cyberspace has become an over-exploited platform of knowledge sharing and gaining where such information could be used for the benefit of the good as well as the bad. It is under this context...

The prevailing electricity crisis has put Sri Lankans in a dilemma. A few weeks back the Sri Lankan public had second thoughts about purchasing gas cylinders and now the citizenry is getting ready to face a series of power outages with the prevailing

The Bengali elite not only supported Anagarika Dharmapala’s movement to retrieve Buddhagaya from the Hindus but also inspired his aggressive political style

The Eknaligoda Forum has organised a ‘holy viradam puja’ in the name of missing cartoonist and journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda to mark the 12th year of his disappearance and people void of the pansakula. The pooja (offering) commences on January 2

“It was flying that attracted me while studying at S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia in the 1950s. I used to ‘cut’ school with my friend Rakitha Wickramanayake and go to Ratmalana Airport....

Pandu the robust elephant who is the father of three elephant calves was born on May 5, 2004, in Chettikulam, Vavuniya and brought to Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage on September 26, 2004. From there....

SACE Board Chief Executive Professor Martin Westwell was pleased to announce the signing of the new partnership. “We are thrilled to welcome Gateway College into SACE International’s global community,” Professor Westwell said. “SACE Internati

An engineer turned business woman turned Bank of Ceylon Chairperson turned social activist, Sumi (Sumithra) Moonesinghe is the jack of all trades and also the master of all.

“Kudil and the Headmaster” is the autobiography of Dr. Ratnam Niththyananthan, better known as Dr. Nithy of London.

The 80th Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka Federation of University Women (SLFUW) will be held at SLFUW Headquarters, Kitulwatta Road, Colombo 08 and through a virtual platform on January 29 (Saturday) at 3.30 p.m.

Sri Lanka has been having a number of high profile foreign visits over the past few weeks. Among those visiting Sri Lanka was Maldives Speaker and former President Mohamed Nasheed. Nasheed gave....

On the same day President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, contrary to his stance on Tamil politicians called on the Tamil leaders of the North and the East to support his government, the same Tamil leaders....

You are already a cyborg.The moment you have a device in your hand your are a cyborg, I heard someone saying.

A union attached to the National Zoological Gardens in Dehiwala, which recognises itself as the ‘SLP union’, staged a protest yesterday, demanding a risk allowance of Rs. 5,000 sources said. The group claims that they haven’t been paid the allo

Former President of the Bar Association Upul Jayasuriya, PC, will deliver the Daya Weththasinghe Memorial Oration at the Sasakawa Hall on January 26 at 5:30 p.m.

By the time you are reading this newspaper, Sri Dalada Maligawa would be a hive of activity to offer 32 measures of cooked rice to the Sacred Tooth Relic.

In order to become the first country to practice organic only agriculture, the cabinet of Sri Lanka on April 29, 2021 approved a ban.....

As a country and a nation, we are becoming the scum of Asia, not its miracle as some bellowed from roof-tops and election platforms sometime back, as well as a country at loggerheads with itself with an array of problems and issues still at bay in ne

I would like to congratulate Law and Human Rights Centre for continuing to organize this important course on human rights and all those who will be awarded certificates after having completed the course. I will share some thoughts about the w

The species commonly known in India as the “Indian Red Scorpion, would be the sixteenth species of scorpion found in Sri Lanka according to the researchers

Sri Lanka aims to be an energy self-sufficient nation by 2030. Right now, the primary sources of generating electricity include thermal, including coal and fossil fuels, hydropower and other non-conventional renewable energy sources such as solar and

The question of what happens after death naturally arises in the mind of thoughtful people, as we do not know what lies beyond death, because no one has ever returned to the living to recount his experiences...

Barring scholars, very few in Sri Lanka would know, or readily acknowledge that in the past Buddhism had flourished among the Tamils both in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. There was “Pali” Buddhism....

It was painful and tough; Left the biggest ever void in my life; Tore me completely apart; Brought me down mentally; below zero;

Initiatives in Development of Entrepreneur Approaches and Strategies (I/D/E/A/S) and Lanka Rain Water Harvesting Forum (LRWHF) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for a period of three (3) years to collaborate in providing financial and t

On October 9, 2021 the Vatican announced the appointment of Rt. Rev. Dr. Valence Mendis (Bishop of Chilaw) as the Bishop of Kandy by His Holiness Pope Francis,

Joseph Vaz was born on April 21 in 1651 in the Portuguese colony of Goa in India. The house of his grandparents, where he was born in the little hamlet of Benaulim, still exists, as does the font at which he was baptised.

The Institute of Urban Designers recently hosted Sri Lanka’s first-ever National Urban Design Forum.