MYTHS AND SCHOLARS - PART VI (1999 June 23) Ms. Coomaraswamy and the others have made a big fuss over the so-called Vijaya myth. Not only the origin of the Sinhala race (nation) is questioned but the ...

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has no two Presidents and President of the SLFP is President Maithripala Sirisena says its General Secretary, Agriculture Minister, Duminda Dissanayake. The Minister ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today cautioned the international community on the growing "arc of violence" and said the biggest challenge to sustainable world peace is from mindsets rooted in hate and ...

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 ...

Retired cricket star Mahela Jayawardene has masterminded what has been promoted by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) as a long-term plan to restructure the entire domestic cricket set-up, basically shifting the ...

Text of a talk given at the inauguration of the MHRD Course, CSHR, University of Colombo, on August 20, 2015, By Jayadeva Uyangoda Dept. of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Colombo ...

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 ...

Q: Were you headstrong as a young boy? A: I was just another ordinary boy at school. I didn’t stand out in any sphere of activity at school either. However, I was active and playful just like any ...