Rajendram Rajamahendran the Chairman of the Capital Maharaja Group passed away on July 25 after a brief illness. ‘Killi’ as he....

Child rights activists have started questioning the government’s definition of national security as it is quite evident that a defenseless child....

Founded in 1929, making it the oldest and also the largest Rotary Club in Sri Lanka, the Rotary Club of Colombo held a virtual installation to induct its 93rd club president, Rtn. Aroshi Nanayakkara.

Sadly the cohort of perpetrators include egotistical leaders, coaches and even some members of the governing body of the school

July 24, 1983 was the day on which a destructive spree of anti-Tamil violence commenced in Jaffna in the early hours of the morning and began spreading to Colombo in the later hours of the evening on the same day.

Basil Rohana Rajapaksa was sworn in as Finance minister in the Government of Sri Lanka by his brother President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on July 8, 2021.

The Yala National Park has been at the receiving end of human disturbances from time to time. Be it a traffic jam to spot a leopard....

All top professionals in this country have benefitted from teachers and no one would wish to harm them or stand in their way.

The government’s move to ban chemical fertilisers has taken a heavy toll on many agriculture-related sectors including the tea industry.

Sri Lankan politics has been a good deal of family business. It was not even the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the progenitor of the SLPP that started it; D.S. Senanayake, the first prime minister flouted an implicit understanding of the succession and u

On July 8 (Thursday) we saw diametrically opposite results because the security forces are apparently being used for the government’s objectives.

Voices of dissent are growing in the country. The latest individuals to take to the streets were the undergraduates of Rajarata University.

As at July 6, 34 persons have been arrested in connection with abusing a 15-year old girl who was exploited online......

Vacancies for Principals in local schools are yet to be filled. Trade Union representatives complain that many issues have arisen....

In keeping with the practice of devoting at least one article each month to a cinema-related topic, this column focuses on the popular Sinhala film actor Tony Ranasinghe this week.

The person who attacked me had allegedly taken money from some private companies in Colombo to provide COVID-19 vaccines for their employees

The law states that it’s an offence to rape or abuse a child below 16 years of age with or without consent

Early morning, October 20,1995. The SriLankan Airlines aircraft with President Chandrika Bandaranaike and her officials had taken off from Katunayake Airport.

In December 2020, the Daily Mirror shed light on the Elevated Highway Project connecting the New Kelani Bridge to Athurugiriya propose

Influential presidential sibling Basil Rajapaksa is tipped to be sworn in as a National List MP next week when his two-week quarantine after returning from a holiday in the United States ends. That would be the precursor to be appointed as the M

Poson is famous for “Abhayadana,” [Rescue from slaughter]. This year’s Poson became famous for an abhayadana of a different.....

During the period March 2020 to 24 June 2021 there were reports of six cases of encounter killings, twenty-seven cases of police...

There was considerable political excitement some days ago, when a meeting was scheduled between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).

The historical judgement delivered by the Appellate Court on June 16 (Wednesday), granting bail to the former Director CID, SSP Shani Abeysekara, has been hailed by Sri Lanka’s law abiding citizens.

A month after the X-press Pearl inferno, carcasses of approximately 100 sea turtles and 46 cetaceans (aquatic mammals including dolphins.....

A 2017 census done by the Department of Census and Statistics estimates that around 8.7% of the population in Sri Lanka fall into the category of People with Disabilities (PwDs). This is around 300,000 people. But four years down the line, this numbe

Parliament was told recently that the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Australian Federal Police were working with the Sri Lankan Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in the investigations into the April 2019 Easter Sunday attack

Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi was quoted telling parliament, Sri Lanka reports 230,000 new kidney and cancer patients annually.....

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stressed that the importation of chemical fertilisers will be completely stopped in the near.....

After an in-house battle among members of the top management of the Consumer Affairs Authority during the past few weeks whether....