Year two thousand eighteen probably fruitful, eventful progress, Exemplary year adventurous eradicate menace hopefully impress, Amiable countrymen await miraculous powers sound governance 

January 1st - the first day of the year is a day of traditional religious feast and an occasion for celebration. This time it is the dawn of the year two thousand and eighteen, the year during which all 

Duruthu Poya celebrates Buddha’s significant first visit to Sri Lanka two thousand five hundred years ago and nine months after his Enlightenment: it marks the country’s commencement of teachings of Buddhism.   

We have commenced to step towards to complete another New Year, 2018. More than one and half decades of the new millennium swiftly expired. The dawn of the New Year brings numerous aspirations and inconceivable dreams in many hearts of the members

“Highlights of the Chancellor’s address was the rapid development of the university, recognition of some of the Technology degree programmes by the IESL for Affiliate Engineer Member status and the need to conform to the standards expecte

Less than a third of young people express any interest in politics, according to an official survey. BBC reported that the survey has found 31% of 16 to 24-year-olds were fairly or very interested in the subject, compared with about half of those age

Maithripala Sirisena. Ranil Wickremesinghe. Mahinda Rajapaksa. Commissions and commissions. Interparty rivalries. Intraparty rivalries. Floods. Droughts. Cyclones. Donald Trump. Jerusalem. Russia. What will 2017 be most remembered for in Sri Lanka?

Thank God for small mercies. Christmas has come and gone, but this year, the commercialized cacophony of Christmas was hardly heard. 

Prof. G.H. Hardy of the Cambridge University went to Putney by a taxi to see his student who fell ill.

As an art form, as a means of self-expression and articulation, music is largely self-referential. It has nothing outside itself; the standards and the yardsticks created for it, by various exogenous factors, are subsumed, sometimes eventually, alm

The majority of the people in the country use social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, and Twitter which give them easy access for communication. People use social media for personal interest while others do so to maintain connections with p

The Citizens’ Movement for Good Governance (CIMOGG) refers to the article titled “LET’S THROW OUT THE COMPLEX ‘MIXED VOTING’ SYSTEM FOR GOOD” by Bernard Fernando that appeared in the DAILY MIRROR on 7 December. &

A Korean company is in the hope of introducing a machine that can be used for converting the decaying garbage into diesel, petrol, gas or bio-coal, by adding a special stimulator, within 3 seconds.  

Alokadhara, an islandwide photography competition, has been announced by the Indian High Commission of Colombo to mark World Hindi Day...

Two young British film producers were in Sri Lanka recently, putting the finishing touches on a film venture with Sri Lankan film director Louis...

Born on April 20, 1934, Rev. Fr. Mervyn Fernando entered into eternal rest on December 20, 2017. He was ordained as a priest on December 21, 1959....

Night is when all sorts of dangers lurk. But there are safe havens. The Reader’s Digest once ran a series of anecdotes called ‘Home....

 When the Boxing Day Tsunami struck Sri Lanka in 2004, the casualties recorded were second only to Indonesia. These casualties were caused largely due to a lack of awareness and experience regarding tsunami warnings. Many were trapped unaware of

It was December 26th, a historic day in 2004. I was watching television in the morning. Kamal, a confidante of mine, came to my home in the morning at about 8.30 a.m. He came to discuss how we should attend the funeral house of one of our relations i

She was four years old when the disastrous tsunami hit the southern and eastern coastal strip of Sri Lanka in 2004. She was in that fateful train accompanying her grandfather and aunt when the mass of water gushed into the train in Paraliya. There ar

Not often is that the men have the heart, when their one great industry is ruined, to rear up in few years another as rich to take its’ place; and the tea fields of Ceylon are as true monument to courage as is the lion of Waterloo’ &ndash

You will be reading this, I think, on the day after Christmas. The day after December 25th. Not unlike every other December 25ths we have run into, celebrated, and turned into a cosmetic festival that does little to no justice to its true, reflective

The celebration of Christ’s birth on the 24th / 25th December dates back to the Third Century CE. But it is universally acknowledged that the gospels give no clue to arrive at such a date or any other date for that matter. 

After almost two decades, Sri Lanka got a seat as a State party to the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT) celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year, at the 16th meeting of State parties which was held at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria from 18th to 21st Dec

After a lapse of ten years I visited my motherland, Sri Lanka. Amazingly the infrastructure development of the country, which was almost at a standstill when I left, is now progressing steadily. 

A quick twelve-month revolution and it is Christmas time once again.

Celebrating International Human Rights Day 2017, the Human Rights Office in Kandy organized Human Rights Salutation, which was held at the Good Shepherd Convent in Kandy on December 10, 2017 with the theme “Let’s stand up for Equality, Ju

Amongst other things, Christmas is not only about a certain child who was born a long time ago but also about children from all places and all times.

The fact that Christmas celebrations had started during the time of Romans as a holiday festivel is a generally accepted view. It was developed with dedication to Jesus Christ. 

Mothers come in all shapes and sizes, and mine came as a package of innumerable talents and ideals.