G.D.L. Perera, (better known as GDL,) the veteran filmmaker, dramatist and theatre-specialist, passed away on Sunday in a hospital in London. He was ailing for sometimes.

Global Affairs Canada recently funded one million Canadian Dollars (Around Sri Lankan Rs. 151 million) to help smallholder farmers cultivate nutritious crops for the National School Meal Programme. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and th

In the Government Calendar, January 15 is marked as a Public, Bank, and Mercantile Holiday and referred to as Tamil Thai Pongal Day. As we know, Pongal is a sweetened ‘Kiri Bath’.

“Bhikkhus, when virtuous renunciants dwell in dependence on a village or a town, there people generate much merit in three ways.

‘Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State’ by Nadia Murad (co-written with Jenna Krajeski) is no ordinary book.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Alumni Association of the University of Colombo and KWA Architects....

The 2345 year long monarchy in Sri Lanka ended with the capture of Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe on February 18, 1815.

The Sri Lanka Council of Religions for Peace (SLCRP), which is a multi-religious organization representing Buddhist, Christian, Hindu and Muslim....

Animal abuse is rampant in our Island Nation. One wonders when and where the compassion, loving kindness and sympathy.....

From the multiple Tsunami Appeal Matches in 2005, to the Big Appeal for the Bush fires in Australia last year and the annual Breast Cancer.....

COVID-19 wasn’t the only pandemic that struck Sri Lanka in 2020. A mass scale Ecocide began and is continuing much to the dismay of environmental....

Initially, the UK B117 VOC didn’t seem to be more fatal (although we learnt in past weekit is), but its ability to infect more people means that it will kill more people.

The Right to Information (RTI) Act No. 12 of 2016 brought with it a promise of open government, citizen’s active participation in governance and accountability to the people of the country. With RTI, anybody from a remote village such as Siyambala

In 623 B.C., in Kapilavatthu on the Indian borders of present Nepal was born Prince Siddhartha Gautama of the aristocratic Sakya clan.

It’s been a year since Thaththa passed away in to the Lord’s arms peacefully on February 9, 2020, after quite a lengthy illness. He breathed his last in the presence of my mother and my two younger brothers in our home where he shared the last t

Even though our parents had been friends going back to the 1950s and we had met sporadically as children, my friendship with only Mala blossomed in the last five years or so.

Interviewed while at Microsoft years ago, I was asked about role models. The interviewer was puzzled when I responded with three Non-Corporate names (outside my phenomenal parents).

St. Benedict’s College Kotahena, with a rich historical heritage of more than 155 years, proudly launched ‘NAMADIMU’, at the school’s....

On February 12, 2021, we celebrated forty (40) years since we joined the Sri Lanka Air Force in 1981, as the 9th Intake of Officer Cadets.

The Leeds International School (LIS), which is one of the leading international schools in the country, celebrated its 20th anniversary recently.

The landmark Declaration, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on December 10, 1948, reaffirms that, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set f

When one thinks of FGM/C (Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting), many think it is only prevalent in the African region. However, recent media reports and research show that the practice also prevails in Sri Lanka, especially among certain sects of the

Year Twenty Twenty One dawned amid uncertainty, Everyone with glimmers of hopes face changing destiny.

Although Colombo is the World’s only RAMSAR Accredited International Wetland Capital city, haphazard developmental activities....

The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) is all set to hold the ‘National Law Conference 2021’ which will focus on the ways in which the legal profession....

Even though vaccination drives have begun to immunise healthcare workers against COVID-19, the general public is yet to receive their doses.

In a paper published on www.thelancet.com Professor of Psychology Michelle Gelfand and her colleagues have reported that tightly-held and disciplined societies had been better able to tackle the unprecedented challenge posed by COVID-19 than loosely

Dr Neville Fernando,Maama,Aiya , Seeya or Uncle to diverse family members, left on his onward journey leaving his family in shock and grief, as Covid 19 took him completely unexpectedly. Even at 89, he was planning to make his next big dream come tru

My first contact with young Avishka Mario Senewiratne was when he called me on a Sunday morning in early January and requested me to keep the date free to attend the launch of his book, “Till the Mountains Disappear – The story of St. Jos

When we are celebrating the 73rd Independence we should look back at what we have lost. We have nothing left of a free nation due to the foolhardiness of government officials who thought they were trying to protect the national treasures. There are a