The name "Kurunegala" is a combination of kurune, meaning a tusked elephant, and ethagala, the name of a 316-meter high rock which towers over the town, located at an altitude of 116 meters above sea ...

A man who bought a packet of rice and curry from a hotel in Kurunegala town, found to his surprise two dead baby snakes in the packet, scaring the daylights out of him. He had immediately called a ...