In October this year, the university in Jaffna completes its first 50 years. But the idea of setting up a modern Western-style institution of higher learning, an American-style College ...

Rain slowed Australia's progress on day three of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle. After the tourists dominated the first two days, Sri Lanka resumed on 44-3 and reached 136-5 at lunch ...

In early August, blue crab fans took over Lewes, Delaware, for the Crab Pot Jamboree, where the biggest catch was learning how to avoid turning your crab pot into an underwater lost-and-found.

And on that note it's a wrap from us. Australia have set a marker for this series, and Sri Lanka will have about five days to reflect till the start of the second Test on the Feb 6, which is this ...

Earth’s mantle behaves like a slow-moving fluid, but that hasn’t stopped two vast regions at its base from maintaining a separation from the rest. These continent-sized areas are hotter than ...

China committed to assisting with Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring and pledged to encourage investments in logistics, green development, and digital transformation. The two sides agreed to enhance ...

Wyoming lawmakers have moved $50 million earmarked for a dam planned above Hyattville into a fund to reconstruct the soon-to-be-breached LaPrele Dam near Douglas. Lawmakers on the Legislature’s ...

Sri Lanka declared bankruptcy in 2022 and halted repayments on some repayments on some US$83 billion in domestic and foreign loans. In November 2023, Sri Lanka reached an agreement with China ...

The writer's new collection of essays, ‘Wild Fictions’, locates the diagnosis of truth, about humankind, nature, peregrination, war, and words, in stories Amitav Ghosh’s new book ...

After her Booker Prize-winning book, Inheritance of Loss was published in 2006 ... Now living in New York, Kiran was in Sri Lanka to attend the HSBC Ceylon Literary & Arts Festival that is now on ...

A commemoration event was held on Friday at Lotus Tower in Colombo to honour the legacy of former minister and prominent lawyer K.N. Choksy. Celebrating the late minister’s life, a biography titled ...