According to statistics provided by Education Minister Harini Amarasuriya, in the Central Province, the Kandy District has the highest shortage of teachers amounting to 3,718, followed by Nuwara Eliya ...

Over 9,000 Catholic faithfuls across the Indo-Lanka Palk Straits gathered at the uninhabited island of Kachchativu on Friday ...

Excerpts from P Dayaratne’s autobiography by KKS PERERA While translating the Sinhala autobiography of P. Dayaratne, the former District and Cabinet Minister who represented Ampara (Digamadulla) in ...

As I dug deeper into the history of the district I uncovered more and more of its treasures ... that perhaps the Deegavapi was the long and narrow lagoon which is now called the Batticaloa Lagoon, ...

Referring to former President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent ‘Al Jazeera’ interview, the Batticaloa District MP said he does not understand why the ex-president is defending the previous government. He ...

Photo courtesy of The Hindu The National People’s Power (NPP) party outlined its vision for strengthening the local dairy ...

He was also one of seven tiger commanders given Colonel” rank in the LTTE. Muralitharan alias Karuna is from Kiran in Batticaloa district. His father Vinayagamoorthy was an agriculturist. Kiran comes ...

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He was speaking to the council for the second and final reading of a new ordinance designed to replace the Development of Regional Impact District with a new Downtown Entertainment District. Copying ...

The Sri Lankan government has now received intelligence reports of attempts to propagate extremist ideologies within the Muslim population in the Eastern Province. Most of such activities have been ...