Property and crop damage claims exceeded 3,700 cases, costing the government Rs385 million (US$1.3 million) in compensation. “Most of the victims are poor farmers in rural Sri Lanka,” says E.G.

That the prevailing international political and economic uncertainties are posing the most difficult challenges in the field ...

All that glisters is not gold”; in Sri Lanka it can even be a T 56 automatic gun! A Shakespearean caution (Merchant of Venice ...

St. Anthony’s Shrine in Kochchikade, a revered national heritage site, is often called a “shrine of peace” for uniting Sri ...

Fort Magistrate Nilupuli Lankapura yesterday (30) ordered Thusitha Halloluwa, who served as the Executive Director of the National Lotteries Board from ...

Hidden behind headlines and global indifference, entire nations are unraveling rapidly, plunged into chaos by economic ...

The tempo is set for the election of a new Mayor for the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC). Vraie Cally Balthazaar (NPP),Dr.

Joel Fernando was born in 1940 in the ancestral home of his maternal grandfather, lawyer Thomas Matthew Fernando JPUM, in the ...

The proposed IMEC corridor connecting India to Europe through the Gulf can be transformative, helping to reduce risks to the ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? An age-old question in economics, with numerous hypotheses suggested as answers.

BAMBOO is no longer the poor man's timber and instead can become the single most important material in sustainable construction. Though perceived as cheap lumber, it can replace concrete and steel as ...