7+ hour, 34+ min ago   (156+ words) The Beven Foundation, a charitable endeavour to use late George Beven’s legacy of art to help deserving Sri Lankan artists, was launched at Barefoot last Wednesday by Ian Wattie and Thomas Laurie, inheritors of Beven’s collection. It was a colourful…...

7+ hour, 34+ min ago   (375+ words) Global IPCC experts gather in Colombo to examine the increasingly dangerous link between climate change and the water cycle. From devastating floods in Nepal to the destruction caused by Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka, some of the clearest manifestations of…...

7+ hour, 34+ min ago   (493+ words) The country is facing a multiplicity of economic and social problems that have to be resolved for its economic and social development. These structural problems cannot be resolved easily, but if they are not resolved, they would impede and hamper…...

7+ hour, 34+ min ago   (976+ words) By Our Political Desk Mr Singh arrived in Colombo the previous afternoon leading a high-level delegation comprising senior officials from India’s Ministry of Defence and Ministry of External Affairs. A large crowd gathered to listen to the President at the…...

7+ hour, 33+ min ago   (1025+ words) The Supreme Court’s judgment last week declaring former President Maithripala Sirisena’s presidential pardon of Ven. Galagodathe Gnanasara Thero null and void is important for a reason that goes far beyond the individual involved. It is ultimately about how Sri Lanka’s…...

17+ hour, 12+ min ago   (230+ words) Iranganie Manel Abeysekera, Sri Lanka’s first woman entrant to the Sri Lanka Foreign Service (then Ceylon Overseas Service), passed away on Thursday. She was 93. The funeral was held yesterday at the Borella Kanatte Cemetery. Ms Abeysekera was born on August…...

1+ week, 39+ min ago   (201+ words) Raising children with the skills needed to conquer the world is a responsibility of parents, while children must work towards that goal with confidence, former lecturer at the University of Peradeniya Department of Psychology and a veteran psychological counsellor Asanka…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1046+ words) More than 1,500 statements have been recorded so far in the ongoing investigations into the recent riots in Negombo, Mahara, Kuruwita and Magazine prisons, while concerns over prison overcrowding and delays in drug-related cases remain unresolved. The investigations by the Criminal…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (113+ words) Energy minister addressing the media By Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe Arrangements will be made to ensure that an uninterrupted electricity supply will be provided without any power cuts, as coal imports required for this year and the next had already commenced,…...