China and Sri Lanka first became connected through Buddhism and later through the Maritime Silk Road. The friendship between the two peoples has transcended time and continues today. For decades, many residents
This is a story of humble fishermen children from Kytes Island J/Thambaddy Government Tamil Mixed Vidyalam and J/ Delft Maha Vidyalam from Northern most inhabited island of Sri Lanka, Delft Island who
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Dr. Gita Gopinath, the First Deputy Managing Director (FDMD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will visit Sri Lanka from June 15 to 16, 2025, in what marks a significant and symbolic
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The local government (LG) election was scheduled to be held in February 2022. At the time, Ranil, who had entered Parliament via the national list, believed that if the LG election went
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Editorial This is not a mere administrative blunder or isolated misdeed. The recent exposé revealing that Anuradhapura Prison officials, under the facade of presidential clemency, deliberately released dangerous felons with forged documents,
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For around 16 years, the country had been unable to host a national exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic. Even when Ranil Wickremesinghe served as President and attempted to organise one, those
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Editorial On a sultry afternoon, under the cracked sky of a country disfigured by generations of theft and mediocrity, a decades-old Airbus A330-200 took a slow, theatrical descent into Katunayake. It flew
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India came into conflict with J.R. Jayewardene’s government when it decided to lease the Trincomalee oil tanks to a Singaporean company. Not only J.R.’s administration, but also those of Sri Lanka’s first
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The month of May saw President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka (also known as AKD) coming to terms with the pleasures and pains of democracy in action. This was brought out starkly in two
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A grave public health crisis is unfolding in Sri Lanka as the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has released a damning report exposing dozens of widely-used beauty and
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Editorial The recent influx of Bangladeshi immigrants into the suburban zones of Colombo, particularly around Katunayake and its adjacent environs near Bandaranaike International Airport, demands urgent and dispassionate scrutiny. What has thus
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