President JR Jayewardene and his team succeeded in raising generous international assistance, most of it coming in the form of grants, that helped to accelerate the envisaged 30 year Mahaweli ...

Six months into the term of office of the new government, the main positive achievements continue to remain economic and ...

We were supposed to have become a rich country decades ago. At Independence many predicted that Ceylon would become the Switzerland of the East. Instead communal strife, corruption and misguided ...

Some health sector trade unions launched a 24-hour strike yesterday, aggravating the suffering of the sick who visited the state-run hospitals seeking treatment. The protesting workers have said they ...

Expanding the opportunities for more female workers to enter the workforce including by making them easier to get funding for ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake meets with senior army ... would not allow racism and extremism to take root. All this is from a leader of the JVP, a reactionary political formation ...

IT WAS three years ago that the Aragalaya people’s movement in Sri Lanka made the international headlines. The world watched a celebration of democracy on the streets of Colombo as tens of thousands ...

Governor Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy last week delivered a critical assessment of the country’s economic past, present, and ...

“They were careless people… They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people ...

Various financial irregularities taken place at several state institutions such as the National Youth Services Council (NYSC) ...

Ashwin picked up the crucial wickets of Jonathan Trott and Joe Root in the middle overs to halt ... He dismissed well-set Marvan Atapattu and Kumara Sangakkara before picking up the wicket of ...