Trichy: Fire and rescue services personnel rescued a Sri Lankan Tamil inmate who had climbed a tree in a bid to end life at ...

She rose to power in 1960 as a widow and mother of three, becoming the first woman in the world to serve as a prime minister.

On 11 February, I joined an executive briefing on the $50 million Sri Lanka Digital Transformation Project, financed by the ...

Religion has been an essential part of Sri Lankan society for more than two millennia, shaping culture, moral values, and social traditions. Buddhism in particular has played a foundational role in ...

It was good to watch the cricket. But even better to see it in the context of visiting Sri Lanka, taking the mountain train, and exploring Kandy’s temples and parks. Overall, Sri Lanka is a very ...

By mid-1983, the political theatre of Tamil Nadu had ceased to be a local affair confined to the legislative halls of Madras ...

In 1987, the maritime drama reached its climax with the Indo-Lanka Accord. Rajiv Gandhi, attempting a bold fix for a ...

Sri Lankan novelist Anuk Arudpragasam argued at the Mahindra Humanities Center on Monday that fiction can give moral weight ...

In January, as Sri Lanka continued to draw Indian pilgrims tracing the Ramayana trail, another group crossed the Palk Strait on a different spiritual journey. A delegation of 125 Goan Catholics ...

We are not sure exactly why, but cricket is like a religion here.” So wrote W. Lewis Amselem, Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Colombo, in a cable to Washington on September 13, 2002, logged in ...

Actor-politician Vijay and actress Trisha Krishnan created a buzz online after they were seen attending a wedding reception ...

The recent gathering of hundreds of Buddhist monks in Colombo demanding a greater role for the clergy in State affairs has highlighted the urgent need to separate religion from the machinery of ...