On Tuesday, May 6, 17,156,338 registered voters will head to the polls to choose councillors for 339 local councils—a decisive measure of the administration’s appeal from the village level up. The ...

The Kandy Municipal Council is still grappling with the segregation of nearly 500,000 kilograms of garbage, after a 10-day exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic. Over 10 days, 630,000 kilograms of ...

Keeping it secret allows any politician to hold press conferences and claim he’s privy to the hidden agreements and spill out its alleged contents, in the confidence it cannot be denied or ...

So what’s happening to Sri Lanka’s once golden crop? A multitude of factors in an industry that is 158 years old (started in 1867) and is highly unionised. If you consider the first tea being brought ...

Two Chinese projects—the proposed Sinopec oil refinery in Hambantota and a logistics centre at the Colombo Port—are still stuck in the pipeline, largely over benefits such as sweeping tax concessions ...

The Higher Education Ministry has decided to appoint an additional officer to each state university vested with fresh powers to penalise students and initiate legal action in a renewed bid to curb ...

Bangladesh U-19s delivered a masterclass in batting prowess, securing a comprehensive 146-run victory over Sri Lanka U-19s in their fourth Youth ODI at the CCC ground yesterday. With this emphatic win ...

So, dear voter, because of all this, if you are thinking of voting for another party, you can look around. You may consider the ‘Light Greens’ or the telephone party. They should have reorganised ...

The Global Franchise Forum (GFF) 2025 was held for the first time in Sri Lanka at the Sheraton Hotel in Colombo recently where buyers and suppliers of brands met (see picture by M.A. Pushpa Kumara).

(Avanka Fernando is based at the Department of Sociology, University of Colombo. Her PhD in Social Anthropology was on “High life in a high rise: An ethnography of home and everyday life in a ...

The Department of Motor Traffic has begun the process of making the place ‘bribe free’ by putting up signs saying, “Offering and accepting a bribe is a punishable offence.” The department is one of ...

The Return was released in UK, Australian and Irish cinemas on April 11. Ruwanthie flew to London to be present at the preview of the film held at the British Museum on April 9 where Fiennes and ...