Do recent DNA studies, particularly a groundbreaking 2025 whole-genome sequencing study published in Current Biology, indicate that the Sinhalese population in Sri Lanka, has stro ...

Today she is also the author of a children’s poetry collection, “Swirling Scoops of Whimsical Magic” published by The Jam ...

The High Commission said on Tuesday that Indian maritime sector also stands to benefit from the high skill set of the Colombo ...

By Ifham Nizam Sri Lanka’s renewable energy sector is poised for a significant investment surge as the International Solar Alliance (ISA) moves to operationalise a comprehensive Country Partnership ...

This first post will focus on the scientists who were at the forefront of scientific research in what would become the intellectual powerhouse of Calcutta (now Kolkata), then under the control of the ...

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home!” John Howard Payne (1823) Deep within each of us is a longing for home. Soon after I arrived in the UK ...

The Registrar General’s Department marked its 161st anniversary with the launch of a dedicated “1930” hotline, a modern call ...

Visiting Nuwara Eliya after a considerable lapse of time, I had almost forgotten how derelict the Nuwara Eliya town was. Held ...

All my life, I had pictured Riyadh as a desert city of unrelenting heat. Instead, January greeted me with a surprising chill. It was a modern, cosmopolitan metropolis that felt more like a cool, ...

The upcoming Sinhala and Hindu New Year, a period of joy and celebration, is also marked by a surge in road accidents, ...

PETALING JAYA: As the Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) Ipoh turned 131 years, three of its icons were given a rousing tribute by ...