This year marks the 80th year since the invasion of Nazi Germany and their accomplices of the Soviet Union and the start of the Great Patriotic War (June 22, 1941 – May 9, 1945, fought during the Second World War).

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa enplaned to New York to address the UN General Assembly. His brother, Prime Minister Mahinda...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, the world’s most authoritative assessment on....

The Sri Lankan government last week rolled out its vaccination programme for children. Deliberated for weeks by technical....

Few months ago, Sri Lanka’s health system was exhausted beyond capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many....

For more than a century, scientists considered lorises, a type of reclusive, tree-dwelling primates, to have two distinct species ....

Memories, one can say, are timeless. They give meaning to our existence and define who we are. Our memories link our past with.....

Thalif Deen, former UN Bureau Chief for Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency, is the author of a newly-released book on the United Nations titled “No Comment- and Don’t Quote Me on That” from which this article is adapted.

Professor Emeritus Chandra Gunawardena, Founder Dean, Faculty of Education, Open University Sri Lanka passed away on August 30, 2021. Her death leaves a huge vacuum in the Field of Education in Sri Lanka. She was indeed a stalwart and a larger than l

Trinity bemoans the loss of yet another loyal son with the passing away of a doyen of the Colombo OBA committee, Jim Bandaranayake.

…..the evil that men do lives after them. But the good is oft’ interred with their bones” (SHAEKESPEAR)

Most of you must have not really given a thought to the fact that we all take quite a fascinating drive along the path of life thanks....

Contracting COVID-19 has become a nightmare, so much so that people now resort to purchasing over-the-counter drugs,

Senior Lecturer in Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture at the Univerity of Peradeniya Dr.(Ms) Warsui Dandeniuya questions as to who is fooling whom in the import of Fertilizer claimed to be from seaweed.

A Financial Cancer Spreading Through Sri Lanka Again...

Death and dying is a subject that has evoked such deep and disturbing emotion that people generally tend to live in denial.....

We are all going through a very difficult period in time. Who would have thought that the simple joys of what makes life meaningful....

It was on a Binara Full Moon Poya Day, that the Bhikkuni Order was established by the Buddha Himself. The Bhikku Order....

Existing shortages of milk powder and certain other essential items have inconvenienced the public to the point that they are willing to buy products at any cost.

The University of Peradeniya is not an institution in a restricted environment, but an institute working for the benefit of mankind, whether in the field of education or in the advancement of science.

Born in 1929, the most venerable Bhikkhuni Kusuma was a fully ordained Buddhist nun who pioneered the re-establishment of the Theravada Female Buddhist Order in Sri Lanka.

Three months have passed so swiftly, for us it seems like yesterday. Your smile, your voice your jokes they linger close to us as if though you are yet near. Looking back on all that’s left behind is a story of an era of eight decades. An exemplar

25th death anniversary of D. G. F. Walter falls on first of September. He was a leading lawyer, social worker and a writer. He passed away most peacefully on 1st September 1996 at his residence “Lucil-Lena”, Kuda Paiyagala at the age of 95. His r

My mother and I could not be more different. We were absolute opposites. She was always so elegantly and well dressed with matching accessories whereas I would opt for the casual jeans and tshirt.

Sri Lanka has lost eight leopards for 2021 and Wildlife conservationists fear whether the protected species is on a fast track towards extinction.

A project by the Ministry of Buddhasasana and Cultural Affairs is budgeted at Rs. 43 million and is expected to be completed by 2022 in two phases

Many Sri Lankans grumble that their small and powerless country is singled out for trenchant criticism at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) while bigger and more powerful countries with worse records go scot-free. But the truth is t

Several rights groups have urged Sri Lankan Government to provide visas for human rights defenders, journalists and others at risk in the crisis...

Where do I begin to write about my nephew Suresh? Suresh came into my life at a tender age, being my nephew Hishan’s college buddy....

Senior Pharmacist Ramalingam Ehamparam passed away on September 8 at a private hospital in Colombo. Born on....