The Sinhala Aluth Avurudda or the Sinhalese New Year is celebrated in the month of Bak according to the traditional lunar calendar of the Sinhalese people. The name ‘Bak’ comes from the Sanskrit word ...

Egypt forward Mohamed Salah has signed a new two-year contract with Liverpool. The 32-year-old’s previous deal was scheduled to run out in the summer and there had been doubts he would stay with the ...

MS Dhoni will lead Chennai Super Kings (CSK) for the remainder of IPL 2025 after Rutraj Gaikwad was ruled out of the rest of ...

It is hard for me to comprehend or believe that it is one month since Bhathiya passed away on that fateful day, 15th March 2025 in Fiji. He slipped away from this life most unexpectedly. My colleague ...

Vision Care, Sri Lanka’s largest vision, hearing, and eyewear solutions provider, has been recognized with the prestigious ‘Best Management Practices Company Awards 2025’ in the Eye Care and Hearing ...

The CSE opened yesterday in a bullish manner after US President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on enforcing increased ...

An American Airlines plane carrying at least three members of the United States Congress has been struck on the taxiway by the wingtip of another American Airlines jet at Ronald Reagan Washington ...

A 41-year-old man was apprehended near BIA on Wednesday night with a pistol, a magazine, and 12 bullets. The arrest was made ...

The Communist Party (CP) of Sri Lanka yesterday (10) expressed grave concern over the NPP government’s unilateral decision to ...

SOCs only one constituted so far Sri Lanka’s controversial MoU on Defence Cooperation with India was unlikely to be taken up ...

The Court of Appeal yesterday ordered the Election Commission (EC) to accept 35 additional nomination papers for the 2025 ...

Even if you are old and grey and want to forget the usual niceties of life, you simply cannot push the Sinhala and Tamil Aluth Avurudda out of your ken but need to reckon with it. The koha cries ...