Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when she was elected as Sri Lanka’s first female executive president. Kumaratunga ...

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One of the top things to do in Sigiriya is climbing/hiking the giant Sigiriya Rock. Upon seeing it, you will completely understand why this is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It’s simply unique! If you ...

Besides the gigantic reclining Buddha, the temple is well known for numerous Buddha images all around it. It was the first centre in Thailand for public education, offering science, religion and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to visit Sri Lanka in April, focusing on bilateral meetings and launching a solar power plant.

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In the light of the broader picture associated with religion today, I would like to draw a few ideas regarding the future of the Sri Lanka Council of Religions for Peace. Based on success achieved in ...

The sari is to Sri Lankans what it is to us; it is the most popular garment across all the ethnic groups and religions in the country. The Kandyan emerges as a clear winner of the popularity ...

But this is also the position taken by two-thirds or more of Buddhists in Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Thailand – the study’s three Buddhist-majority nations. In five of the six countries surveyed, nearly ...

Now, we have become a Buddhist country because of that,” he said. Theravada Buddhism is the largest and official religion of Sri Lanka, practised by roughly 70 per cent of the population.

The Sinhalas had quietly determined at independence to make Sri Lanka in practice a unitary Sinhalese-speaking Buddhist nation where the minorities would remain outsiders.