The use of heroin is the primary source of destruction of the youth within the country. The drug is such that once a user is addicted there is little or no way that a user can be rehabilitated. This ...

Politics, national as well as international, in the last two weeks has not been confined to the paddy fields in Wayamba. The Adelaide oval cricket field in Australia and the football fields in England ...

We have stopped all the unsolicited Bills. Ad hoc policy implementations no longer exists under the new administration. We will also consider open, transparent bidding to give everyone a chance Last ...

Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea recently organized a ceremony to support Sri Lanka in oral cancer research. Oral cancer is one of the most common cancers prevalent in Sri Lankan patients.

MYTHS AND SCHOLARS - PART VI (1999 June 23) Ms. Coomaraswamy and the others have made a big fuss over the so-called Vijaya myth. Not only the origin of the Sinhala race (nation) is questioned but the ...

The situation is grave at the Ragama Teaching Hospital as nurses have totally sidelined midwives in labour room duties and at times had even threatened midwives to keep away from deliveries. This is a ...

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has no two Presidents and President of the SLFP is President Maithripala Sirisena says its General Secretary, Agriculture Minister, Duminda Dissanayake. The Minister ...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa laid the foundation stone for the construction of the International University of Buddhist and Indic Studies in the ancient Buddhist city of Sanchi in the presence of ...

Kandy MC bans animal slaughter within city limits BY L.B. SENARATNE Sept 26, 2012; The Kandy Municipal Council unanimously passed a resolution banning the slaughter of cattle and goats within the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today cautioned the international community on the growing "arc of violence" and said the biggest challenge to sustainable world peace is from mindsets rooted in hate and ...

Despite growing pressure from the international community (IC), little has been done by the Sri Lankan government to end one of the world's oldest ethnic conflicts, even though the bloody civil war ...

A group of residents of Anderson Flats of Narahempiya yesterday staged a protest against the plan to take over nine perches from the nearby children’s park, by the National Housing Development ...