Sri Lankan politics shows a repeating pattern where established parties take over grassroots movements. The 1953 Hartal proved this when the Sri Lanka Freedom Party used public anger to win elections.

Every nation, in every region of the world, has to take a decision: either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”– ...

Young birder Lahiru Walpita begins most of his days at dawn by scanning the skies for seabirds along the coastline in ...

Living with a Legacy When I came back in 1989, the IPKF had been in the country for around two years. Its presence according ...

The Mahavamsa indicates that a fairly small community of persons, predominantly Roman Catholics of Indian Origin have ...

June 25, 2025, will be remembered as a historic milestone for the Malaiyaha Tamil community in Sri Lanka, a people long ...

A coordinated Search and Rescue (SAR) operation led by the Sri Lanka Navy, following information received from the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) Colombo, resulted in the successful rescue ...

Showers will occur at times in the Sabaragamuwa province and in Nuwara-Eliya, Kandy, Galle and Matara districts. Several spells of showers may occur in the Western and North-western provinces.

From Oslo’s Munch Museum to little-visited Colombo treasures, be sure to add these fascinating spaces to your itinerary ...

The Egyptian telco and subsea cable supplier SubCom announced the successful completion of the two landings of the Southeast ...

The case for why the humble dhoti (or sarong, or lungi, or whatever you call it) needs to be a part of your wardrobe ...

India’s faunal database has 683 new entries, including 459 newly-discovered species and 224 species. These findings were ...