Sri Lankan civil war; mass evacuation in Haicheng earthquake; McCarthy gives first anti-communist speech; Nepal abolishes ...

The passing of “Harry J” marks the passing of the second of the quattro better known as the “Famous 4”. The original Famous 4 ...

The Tigers invited Vijaya Kumaratunga to visit Jaffna with Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1986. However Chandrika was unable to do so due to some personal reasons Initially, the LTTE in Jaffna did not ...

Writing a critique about Ranil Wickremesinghe now is akin to hitting a dead snake with a pole, a gentleman quipped during the ...

Battlelines are quickly emerging between the Government and the opposition on a variety of issues on the political front possibly in ...

Ken was a Senior Cadet, Boxer, and Ruggerite at Royal, and the game closest to his heart was rugby, as he was knocked unconscious during boxing. He continued playing rugby and became a member of the ...

Two icons in Sri Lanka’s private sector, widely considered self-made corporate legends, Ken Balendra (85) and Harry ...

Last week’s parliamentary proceedings proved combative with both the government and the emasculated opposition hurling ...

Two other former presidents — Chandrika Kumaratunga and Maithripala Sirisena — are living in government housing in Colombo’s fashionable diplomatic quarters.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to step down in 2022 as Sri Lanka faced its worst economic meltdown, with foreign reserves plummeting and the nation running out of dollars to finance imports of ...

“Ivan was indicted on several criminal defamation cases by Chandrika Kumaratunga’s government. He took these cases right up to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) where he won a major ...