The installation of office bearers of the Interact Club of BSC for the year 2017/2018 was held on Nov 2, 2017 in the school auditorium. The chief guest Dr. Ravi Fernando spoke on the topic “Sustainability is the key future subject” and

There’s a sweet, almost naive sense of innocence in the early performances of Vasanthi Chathurani. It’s a new sensibility, to me, since a very few actors here, male or female, have been as able as she has been to project a form of purit

The singers in this visually handicapped choir – “LUMEN SINGERS” -- come from poor and destitute backgrounds. They have been trained over the years and have been singing at leading hotels in and around Colombo and even in the outs

Road conditions in many areas of Sri Lanka are nothing to brag about, screaming for much improvement. Being Sri Lankans, we’ve all experienced the ‘bumpy rides’ where 

The name of the Ceylon Government Railways (CGR) and the name of former GMR B.D. Rampala are interwoven and the people who talk about the glorious days of the GCR still remember him as an unmatched personality.  

Death is inevitable in our lives. Although it is so, certain incidents that occur in our lives can be avoided if we are mindful. If we analyze the causes of a number of deaths reported daily, the root cause for them is negligence.

The world has been experiencing Mother Nature’s fury in full force through earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, landslides etc. Sri Lanka’s experiences haven’t been any different.

These days, when I go to a doctor, I feel like the elephant that was analysed by five blind men. I get shunted from the trunk-lady to the foot-dude who consults the tail-gal who speaks to the ear-guy who phones up the mahout.  

The movies have inspired. They have taught us how to cry and how to laugh. They have lifted, saddened, reassured, and humbled. They have also chastened, confused, and angered. Speaking for myself, they have made my life easier to bear.

After the deaths of their husbands in 2016, two widows, eerily aged 32 and 33 respectively are living in fear, with their six children. If the death strikes them as well, altogether six children would become destitute.

That which presently lies in the past, once lay in the future,foreshadowing possibility.    The search for legacy is not a....

A team of university students of the Faculty of Management & Finance of University of Colombo gifted a renovated “Singithi Uyana” and....

Over the past five years choir mates Andreas Palbrand and Franz Lundberg Palbrand of Gothenburg Sweden have....

A fundamental rights petition has been filed with regards to the Regulations that give effect to the provisions of the Registration of Persons....

One year has passed since Rev. Derrick Mendis made his farewell. He certainly was one of a kind, rather a rare kind at that. He was a servant of the Lord, friend of the poor, fearless poet against the powers that be, and, most of all, a humble human

The National Law Conference of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka was held on 3rd, 4th and 5th November at the Shangri-La’s Golf Resort & Spa, Hambantota. Over 280 Attorneys-at-Law from across the country attended this prestigious event. The

Indian filmmaker P. Suneel Kumar Reddy was here last week, seeking avenues for Indo-Sri Lankan film co-productions.  

  God willing, my Aunt Lily, in cricketing parlance, will be 90 not out on the 17th of November. Aunt Lily’s mother, Sinnapattiamma and my maternal Grand Father Stephens were from Badulla.   Aunt Lily had two siblings. The eldes

Former Jetliners’ frontman Ishan Baha was recently in Australia to launch ‘A Heritage of Song’ the second in a series comprising two books. The launch took place at the Hungarian Community Hall in Wantirna and was organised by Derri

In Monaragala’s remote Buttala village Buddhists revere Fr. Michael Rodrigo as a saint because of what he did for them and....

The new Administrative Unit of the National School in Deiyandara, Matara was declared open by  President Maithripala Sirisena....

There’s a story from the 1971 insurrection that intrigues me even today. This story, I heard or rather read about from Malinga Gunaratne....

Former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov once wrote a book titled Chess is my life. Viktor Korchnoi who challenged him....

My father’s good friend was the late Lionel Wendt – His brother Harry was my godfather. As I was told the beautiful mansion belonging to Lionel was filled with music and art -- those who wanted to be a part of it dropped in and enjoyed it

A talk by Bhante Vimalaramsi Mahathera from the USA at the Light of Asia Centre in Pelawatta, Battaramulla on Friday, November 10, 2017 at 8.00 pm. 

Many await, with their fingers crossed, Budget 2018 which is all set to be read in Parliament today. Last September, the Ministry of Finance called for proposals from different stakeholders including the general public, to be included in Budget 2018.

The inaugural Shelton Wirasinha Oration was held at Wesley College on Thursday, October 19 and was presided over by the inimitable Kumar de Silva.

Today, November 8, is earmarked as the International Day of Radiology which is celebrated each year by the global radiology community. It was on this day 121 years ago that German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen made history by inventing the X-ray, a&nb

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a fast-growing killer in the Northern part of Sri Lanka and one way to battle it is through the provision of clean drinking water. Identifying this as a grave problem, the PINA organisation has taken up the challenge

Quintus Horatius Flaccus known in the English-speaking world as Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.Contemplative about art in general and painting in particular, he is recorded to have said as follows: