6+ hour, 33+ min ago   (621+ words) Kapila Wijegunawardene may have been a fast bowler in his playing days, but he showed an exceptional ability to duck a barrage of questions about team selections at his first media appearance as chief selector this week. After avoiding the…...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago   (79+ words) The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka The Pakistan High Commission marked the 78th death anniversary of Quaid-E-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on Friday, September 11. The mission paid a solemn tribute to the Father of the Nation with commemorative speeches and a short documentary…...

10+ hour, 54+ min ago   (156+ words) The Beven Foundation, a charitable endeavour to use late George Beven’s legacy of art to help deserving Sri Lankan artists, was launched at Barefoot last Wednesday by Ian Wattie and Thomas Laurie, inheritors of Beven’s collection. It was a colourful…...

10+ hour, 54+ min ago   (375+ words) Global IPCC experts gather in Colombo to examine the increasingly dangerous link between climate change and the water cycle. From devastating floods in Nepal to the destruction caused by Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka, some of the clearest manifestations of…...

10+ hour, 54+ min ago   (493+ words) The country is facing a multiplicity of economic and social problems that have to be resolved for its economic and social development. These structural problems cannot be resolved easily, but if they are not resolved, they would impede and hamper…...

10+ hour, 54+ min ago   (976+ words) By Our Political Desk Mr Singh arrived in Colombo the previous afternoon leading a high-level delegation comprising senior officials from India’s Ministry of Defence and Ministry of External Affairs. A large crowd gathered to listen to the President at the…...

10+ hour, 53+ min ago   (1025+ words) The Supreme Court’s judgment last week declaring former President Maithripala Sirisena’s presidential pardon of Ven. Galagodathe Gnanasara Thero null and void is important for a reason that goes far beyond the individual involved. It is ultimately about how Sri Lanka’s…...

20+ hour, 32+ min ago   (230+ words) Iranganie Manel Abeysekera, Sri Lanka’s first woman entrant to the Sri Lanka Foreign Service (then Ceylon Overseas Service), passed away on Thursday. She was 93. The funeral was held yesterday at the Borella Kanatte Cemetery. Ms Abeysekera was born on August…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (201+ words) Raising children with the skills needed to conquer the world is a responsibility of parents, while children must work towards that goal with confidence, former lecturer at the University of Peradeniya Department of Psychology and a veteran psychological counsellor Asanka…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (1046+ words) More than 1,500 statements have been recorded so far in the ongoing investigations into the recent riots in Negombo, Mahara, Kuruwita and Magazine prisons, while concerns over prison overcrowding and delays in drug-related cases remain unresolved. The investigations by the Criminal…...