Jaffna High Court Judge, M. Ilancheliyan, vowed to protect his two children for the death of his guard. He was given this pledge at the funeral of Sub Inspector Sarath Hemachandra who was killed. "I ...

Fresh regulations under Sri Lanka’s decades-old Sports Law may have attempted to deal with several intrusive and restrictive regulations introduced in 2013 but, by introducing a set of mandatory ...

Offering voting rights for all Sri Lankan nationals working abroad is not possible at the moment as it could be used towards election malpractices, Foreign Employment Minister Thalatha Athukorala said ...

Despite growing pressure from the international community (IC), little has been done by the Sri Lankan government to end one of the world's oldest ethnic conflicts, even though the bloody civil war ...

We have stopped all the unsolicited Bills. Ad hoc policy implementations no longer exists under the new administration. We will also consider open, transparent bidding to give everyone a chance Last ...

"Sri Lanka in order to prevent all forms of irregular migration, trafficking in persons and smuggling of human beings, is taking action against those traffickers under due processes, while treating ...

Prof. Raj Somadeva of the Faculty of Archaeology of the Kelaniya University, who heads the team of researchers, said the excavations had been going on for about two weeks in a stateowned land, which ...

The Sinhala and Tamil New Year dawns at 07.37 am on Monday, 14 April. Astrologically, the Aluth Avurudda symbolizes the transition of the Sun from Pisces to Aries. The Punya Kalaya for religious ...

Sri Lanka’s biggest social security fund, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) had invested a massive Rs. 2,091 billion in 2011 and 2012 and these investments were safe and sound drawing a good return, ...

Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea recently organized a ceremony to support Sri Lanka in oral cancer research. Oral cancer is one of the most common cancers prevalent in Sri Lankan patients.

I don't see why these subjects are not taught now. When I was going to a Famous Catholic Boarding School in Colombo in the niteen forties and fifties we were taught Sri Lankan History, Culture and ...

“According to World Bank projections, by 2015, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia will be home to approximately 40 per cent of the developing world's population living in extreme poverty,” he told ...