The country-wide power failure on Sunday -- the second major power outage within three weeks after the new government came to power in.....

Marking The World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD), which falls tomorrow, March 15, the Consumer Affairs Authority is launching the ‘Reward the.....

A media seminar was conducted for world kidney day by the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine. The organisers introduced a novel idea.....

The multiple misdeeds, alleged crimes ranging from abductions, assaults to even murder, acts of corruption and nepotism, providing wrong and deceitful information.....

A recent online video showing a young couple challenging two security guards who were trying to evict them from Independence Square for spending time....

Ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa has recently developed a habit of visiting all kinds of suspects in remand prisons, many of them implicated in offences.....

An unexpectedly large crowd of about 300,000 attended the three-day exhibition and sale held at the BMICH on March 6, 7 and 8 as the first....

Big match fever is on and many schoolboys from leading schools are parading the streets to support their teams.

The national government is giving top priority to the challenge of tackling the kidney disease epidemic and one of its main causes -- the excessive use of imported agro-chemicals for the cultivation of paddy

Last Sunday (March 6, 2016) a protest was held at Independence Square. The ‘call to action’, so to speak, came in the form of a post on social media by unknown persons calling themselves ‘Occupy the Square’.

It is an inexplicable irony that New York-based billionaire businessman Donald Trump is winning the...

The mutilated eagle’s picture which went viral on social media websites is one of the most harrowing...

President Maithripala Sirisena, who handled his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) with a somewhat...

My mind started debating with itself after reading the thought provoking piece by our senior and most...

The Indian High Commissioner Y.K. Sinha’s stricture on the joint opposition’s Prof. G. L. Peiris and former President

Smoking is a  problem in many aspects;  mainly in health, economic, socially and development context. It is a problem at individual

A somewhat battered Sri Lanka team left on Tuesday night for the T2O World Cup tournament in India -- with

National Constitutions are a valuable instrument for protecting animals, providing strong legal clout to the existing Animal 

Have you ever borne testimony to the graceful gliding of a whale that cuts its way through the swift currents of the rippling blue ocean? One of the oldest and most magnificent of sea creatures, whales are unique marine species that should be protect

Hand-foot-and-mouth disease rampant among pre-school children these days causes distress in anxious parents. An extremely contagious condition caused most often by a cocksackie virus, which is a virus of the enterovirus family, the outbreaks of it la

March 4th marks three months since the passing away of Prof. Manique Gunesekera, who was  called “Prof. Manique” by most of the lecturers at the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU)  of the University of Kelaniya in typical Sri

H.K. Chandrika (46) a technical officer of the Eye Donation Society, residing in Kolavenigama Deniyaya, though a seamstress by profession is an expert in removing the cornea from the eyes of dead persons, and coordinating with the Eye donors’ s

Generally,  the process starts with an innocuous sounding email from my oldest friend Aruna in early February.

Why do women behave in an uncanny manner before men -- They throw bras, embrace and hug male performers on stage?  Would a man ever think of doing such silly frolics in public? By such ridiculous behaviour, they surrender their ‘chastity&r

President Maithripala Sirisena, in one of the most powerful speeches since his historic election victory in January last year, said on Monday that Sri Lanka’s people and Mother Earth had been poisoned by agro-chemicals for more than 60 years --

As we “Pledge For Parity” on this year’s International Women’s Day, it has to be noted that countless women worldwide face harassment at the hands....

The practice of gifting elephants, as a symbol of strengthening diplomatic relations, has become common in Sri Lanka over the.....

“Where do I start?” Priyani (not her real name) asks looking down at her hands. Priyani is a former sex worker who, with much difficulty, had managed to....

Maya Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement has said it is important for the....

The Prime Minister outlined his economic plan in Parliament a few months ago, which one would expect to be the blueprint for the development effort for the next....