JAFFNA (Sri Lanka) – I am sitting in a bumpy public bus in April 2024 in the northernmost province of Sri Lanka, and there is a Tamil song by Indian music star A.R. Rahman from the 1990s blaring ...

In the quiet embrace of the Galle Fort Art Gallery, words poured like warm tea steaming ... an anthology of poems by writers from the plantations produced by PEN Sri Lanka is also available.

soon afterwards, within a month and ten days; on the 2nd of May 1602, the Dutch Admiral Joris van Spilbergen’s arrival in Batticaloa, with three ships from the Dutch port of Veere. It should be ...

The Hague (AFP) – A Dutch court Friday handed a life sentence to a man who shot dead three people and set fire to a Rotterdam hospital during a rampage that sparked pandemonium and shocked the ...

Showers or thundershowers may occur at a few places in Galle, Matara, Kaluthara and Rathnapura districts in the evening or night. Mainly dry weather will prevail elsewhere over the island. The general ...

An old mixtape is at the centre of the latest play by writer, director and actor Ahilan Karunaharan. Ahilan, who is of Sri Lankan descent, uses the recorded music to chart a mother's former life in a ...

In the summer of 2004, Peter Harris, president of Pedder Group – a division of Hong Kong’s Lane Crawford Joyce Group – visited Sri Lanka ... Galle to stay at what was then called The Dutch ...

The Florida Atlantic University men's basketball team will hold a "Seinfeld Night" Thursday when the Owls host Wichita State in a key American Athletic Conference game ... and yadda yadda yadda.

The programme supports 84 innovative projects this year, three of which are collaborations between participants from the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka, cultivating stronger cultural partnerships in the ...

Michael Davidson: “‘Rave & Pickle’ is a nightlife twist on sip and pickle. We’ve completely remolded it and decorated it so that everything glows in the dark.” Glowing courts ...

Sri Lanka is a tropical island in the Indian Ocean comprised of 48 distinct agro-ecological regions which support rich biodiversity. IUCN started operating in the country in 1988 with the ...