Doha: The Sri Lankan community in Qatar will celebrate the ‘Sinhala’ and Tamil New Year 2018 (Bak Maha Ulela) at Al Sadd Sports Club on April 13 from 6:30am to 5:30pm. Sri Lankan Ambassador ASP Liyanage will be the Chief Guest. The program is being organised by the Embassy of Sri Lanka in …
Sri Lanka is very young. Almost a quarter of the population is between ages 15-29 and nearly half the population is under 30. In the short post-independence history of this country there have been three youth-led insurgencies –in the south as well as i…
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Sinhala and Tamil New Year is a national festival which has been celebrated in Sri Lanka for many centuries and by all Sri Lankans around the globe. The Sri Lankan Community Social Club in Oman in collaboration with the Sri Lankan Embassy in Muscat hav…
Apr 07, Colombo: Veteran Sri Lankan actress Ratnavali Kekunawala, who contributed her voice to the role of “Menike” in 60’s popular radio drama Muwan Pelassa passed away today at the age of 87. The immensely popular actress, who entered the silver screen from ‘Sath Samudura’ movie played …
Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena declared that International Workers’ Day, commonly marked as May Day, will now be shifted from May 1st to May 7th, after pressure from various Buddhist lobby groups. The decision was made as May 1st coincides with the Buddhist festival of Vesak.
However, I would want to travel to Sri Lanka in the near future to know my roots,” Durga Keshav told the Colombo Gazette. She was a one year old when her father left but and Durga Keshav later launched a campaign to locate her father who she believed w…
Colombo: A former Sri Lankan military intelligence chief has been arrested and remanded in custody over the assault and abduction of a leading journalist nearly 10 years ago, police … Sri Lanka was dubbed one of the dangerous places in the world for …
Apr 06, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today pledged to continue working to strengthen the unity government with the support of all the parliamentarian extending cooperation to the government for the benefit of the country and the p…
COLOMBO, April 6 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan shares slipped on Friday from their highest close in a week hit in the previous session, led by blue-chip stocks with the day’s turnover slumping to a 15-week low ahead of the traditional Sinhala-Tamil New Year later next week, brokers said. The turnover stood at …