Niluka Damayanthi is up at 2.00 a.m. each day to prepare for the long day ahead. This entails cooking for her household which include her mother, husband and children. She also prepares snack boxes for the snorkelers or divers she would be ac

Leprosy Hospital in Hendala is believed to be the first hospital built in the country by western rulers. It also stakes a claim to be the oldest functioning hospital in the world.   

When Sinhala lyricists are talked about there are certain names that tend to be left out of the conversation. Given that sometimes even the great Mahagama Sekera is absented one should not be surprised that names such as Sunil Sarath Perera, Mahinda

Professional art photographer Amanda Samani Jayawardhana is making preparations to conduct an exhibition titled ‘Artsy’ which will be held on June 23 and 24 at J.D Perera Art Gallery in Colombo.   

Aerospace companies are continuously experiencing globalization, intense competition, reduced time-to-market, faster build rates and the need to reduce costs while maintaining strict quality-assurance. These factors are forcing all the large players

The Ministry of Health recently sent a communique to senior state health officials concerning a batch of canned fish deemed unsuitable for public consumption, ensuing the lab tests conducted by the Imported Food Inspection Unit of the Food Administ

Preserving sites of archaeological importance is vested upon relevant authorities. During the war, many of these sites were destroyed where ruins too came under the shower of mortar shells. 

 Desigar Ramanujam was born in Ramanathapuram, South India on 17th July 1907. Upon completing his higher studies he commenced a career is journalism. In the late 1920s Ramanujam, by then an accomplished writer, came to Sri Lanka and joined the e

The certainty of death has removed from our midst, Amma.   I called her Amma, for I was married to her daughter, Sarojini and that was how Saro called  her mother.   

Upasampada or higher ordination ceremonies haven’t changed over the years and still remain as they were conducted in 1773. ‘The Graphic’ of January 1576 describes a “A Buddhist Ordination of Ceylon”.   

Exactly 731 days after duo Johann Peiris and Jayanthi Kuru-Uthumpala put Sri Lanka on the world map of mountaineering by conquering Mount Everest on May 21, 2016, Peiris, like Jayanthi two years ago, summitted the mountain on May 22, 2018, at 5.55 am

Kalasuri Dr. Jayasiri Semage will hold his solo exhibition of paintings titled ‘Splendour of Art’ at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery, Colombo 7 from June 15 to 17. 

A lawyer, who visited the Negombo Police Station to represent a female victim, and was allegedly prevented from discharging his duties by a senior police officer, has filed a complaint with the Supreme Court for the violation of his professional righ

Mystery surrounds the construction or misconstruction of a Seema Malaka in Diyawanna Oya. To avoid any miscommunication the  underscores the fact that this article does not refer to the construction with the same name and situated in Beira Lak

Dr. Harsha Perera has published the smallest books in colour to be printed in Sri Lanka. They are twins, one in Sinhala and the other in English, titled ‘Mage Rata’ (My Country) and with illustrations and laminated inside pages.  &

The history of the Buddhist clergy, in this country, has  largely been a history of schisms, splits, and amalgamations. Over the  decades and centuries, several important points have been inferred with  respect to this (at one level)

A recent news story titled ‘The end of an era: Canon kills off last film camera’ prompted me to write this. Is it the end of film and film cameras? Don’t make any predictions. The end of vinyl records and record players was predic

The Rotract Club of University of Peradeniya have planned a walk titled ‘Reach for Water’ which will be held on June 9.   

An oil colour painting depicting the manner in which King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe ordered Devendra Mulachari to build the Octagon or Pathirippuwa was presented to Diyawadana Nilame Pradeep Nilanga Dela by Avanti Sri Nissanka Karunaratne.  &nbs

For the watchful consumer,  reading labels on their food items is simply an act of habit. While the containers of most food items tell you exactly what you’re about to purchase, when it comes to fruits, we’re often left puzzled; al

Sati means ‘mindfulness’ in Pali. Its most basic and practical definition is; retaining awareness every moment, on purpose, without judgment, being in the present moment and not thinking of the past nor dreaming of the future. That is b

Everything about the environment is turning pale. The blues and the greens are fading away and it is us humans who could treat Mother Nature better. From the irresponsible dumping of garbage to every other attempt made at polluting the environment im

Mount Elizabeth Hospital along with Gleneagles Hospital Singapore, flagship brands of Parkway Hospitals Singapore, have broken their 2017 record, winning 10 awards at the 2018 Asia Pacific Healthcare and Medical Tourism Awards held on May 4 2018 at H

It’s been a year, I don’t know how, Where did the time go, please come back to us now 

We write in response to the article titled ‘The consequences of building Port  City’ published in your newspaper on April 26, 2018. It is becoming increasingly clear that this is an organised build-up against Port  City, particu

The UN Peacekeeping Force (UNPKF for short) came into being during the Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Subsequently, in 1988, by dint of its immense contribution to the maintenance of peace in trouble spots across the world, it bagged the Nobel Peace Prize

In his memoir Pin Athi Sarasavi Waramak Denna, Ediriweera Sarachchandra dwells on the intricate link between a cultural resurgence and the identities of those who take part in and eventually get to lead that resurgence. Taking a rather puritanical st

“The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.” – Gautama Buddha Perhaps it is this knowledge that fuels the desire of more and.....

Silk Road is the road that Chinese in the past used to trade with outside world. Ancient Silk Road comprised of land routes and sea routes. It has a history of more than 2,000 years.

Over the next few decades we have to eradicate hunger and do so for a growing population.    And we’ll have to do that amid climate trends that will require our food systems, starting with the agricultural sectors, to become increasin