By D.B.S.Jeyaraj (S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike, the fourth Prime Minister of Independent Sri Lanka known then as Ceylon was the target of an assassination attempt on September 25th 1959. He succumbed to his ...

Two men arrived on a motor cycle at the Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha office on the morning of 22 October 2025. Weligama is a coastal town in the Matara district of Sri Lanka’s southern province.It is ...

October 1990 is a cruel and unforgettable month in the history of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province Muslims. It was in October 1990 that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelamn (LTTE) forcibly expelled the ...

The 26th death anniversary of Plantation Tamil Patriarch Saumiyamoorthy Thondaman is being commemorated today 30 October 2024. Saumiyamoorthy (name is spelled as Savimiyamoorthy and Saumiamurthy also) ...

October 1990 was the month in which the Tamil speaking Muslims of the Northern province were forcibly expelled en masse by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) 35 years ago. This two-part ...

As much as lawyers, activists and civic conscious citizens, South Asia’s judges seem to be fighting with their backs proverbially against the wall in these extraordinarily fraught times. Concerns on ...

Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department(CID) of the Sri Lankan Police on Friday 22nd August 2025. Subsequently he was produced before the ...

Current media coverage in Sri Lanka is heavily focused on the forthcoming Presidential elections. Though officially not announced yet, it seems a foregone conclusion that the presidential poll would ...

80th Birth Anniversary of Vijaya Kumaratunga on 9 October 2025. Kovilage Vijaya Anthony Kumaratunga, known to the world as Vijaya Kumaratunga, was born in Seeduwa on 9 October 1945. Vijaya was an ...

The United Lingdom (UK) has imposed sanctions on four Sri Lankans allegedly responsible for serious human rights abuses and violations committed during the war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and ...

Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran known popularly as MGR ruled Tamil movidom for three decades until becoming Chief Minister of India’s Tamil Nadu State in 1977. MGR served as chief minister (CM) for ten ...

History was made 65 years ago in July 1960 when 44 year old Sirimavo Bandaranaike assumed office as the prime minister of Sri Lanka known then as Ceylon. Sirimavo shattered a glass ceiling by becoming ...