Veediya Bandara was born during a tumultuous era marked by the arrival of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka in 1505. Their presence initiated a phase of military expansion and the promotion of Catholicism, ...
Colombo, Nov. 12 (Daily Mirror) – Defense counsel representing Daisy Forrest, the grandmother of Yoshitha Rajapaksa, informed the Colombo High Court that maintaining proceedings against her under the ...
The Pathfinder Foundation. The Pathfinder Foundation welcomed a delegation from the Asia New Zealand Foundation Leadership Network during its visit to Sri Lanka. Th ...
Colombo (AsiaNews) – A new coral ridge has been discovered off the coast of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, thanks to ...
The Malayan Café, a city institution since its founding in 1951, serves cheap but nourishing curries incorporating ...
Last week, Veteran journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj, writing the first of a two-part article on Mahinda Rajapaksa turning 80, aptly surmised the protagonist as ‘demonised by the opponents and deified by ...
This video traces why he rejected priestly authority, ritual sacrifice, and caste privilege—not because he denied the existence of devas, but because he placed liberation in personal insight, ethical ...
In essence, the Thai-Sinhala Buddhist historical relationship is a testament to shared religious values, mutual support, and a continuous flow of knowledge and culture that has ensured the resilience ...
Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard has been awarded a shipbuilding contract by the French submarine cable company Orange Marine. The deal finalized last week further cements the shipyard’s status with major ...
Aga Jayasinghe understood the NPP’s decision to continue with the IMF program, & felt it wise for the NPP to not rock the boat too much. Not because he endorsed the IMF program but because he must ...
The 1915 riots in Ceylon were triggered by the Supreme Court’s judgment in February 1915 related to a long-standing dispute over a Buddhist religious procession (perahera) in Gampola.
The Justice Woodrenton Report found that the shooting of rioters by the military and police during the 1915 riots could not be legally justified, although it deemed the actions to have been taken in ...
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