Usvatte-aratchi Two thoughtful short essays on schools and education appeared in The Island newspaper on January 20th and 21st. The first was written by Lokubandara Tillakaratne, and the second by ...

Capt. G A Fernando [email protected] Former President, Aircraft Owners and Operators Association, Sri Lanka The HS 125 was designed and built in 1962 as the de Havilland 125 (DH 125) and later by the ...

China is on a clear course to become the world’s first “electrostate" — and is likely to eclipse the U.S. in atomic power in ...

Australia wrapped up a comprehensive 2-0 series victory over Sri Lanka, sealing the second test with a commanding nine-wicket ...

RAMANATHAPURAM: The Sri Lankan Navy on Saturday arrested two boats carrying 14 fishermen from Rameswaram and Thangachimadam for allegedly violating the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL). The ...

…Poetry oozes somewhere out of Colombo’s toxic Beira, surrounded by so-called modern ‘millennial’, ‘hi-tech’ companies and boutique hotels with fanciful but ultimately useless architecture, who are ...

This article is a continuation of my previous report on the realities of life in the Delft Island. In the first part, I ...

Sri Lanka earned US$ 930 million from the export of raw rubber and rubber products in 2023. Of that the major share, around ...

It all ended in an orgy of violence orchestrated by the Sri Lankan army in May 2009, with the death of every LTTE leader who had not defected to the army years earlier. Prabhakaran and his entire ...

Sri Lanka's exemption of a luxury tax from cabs was not linked to attempts to give vehicles to members of parliament, Cabinet ...

Sri Lanka will move to full competitive bidding for new power plants from June 2025 under an electricity law now in effects, ...

International demand for basmati rice is forecast to double over the next few years. But farmers and connoisseurs say ...