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OLD PERADENIYA By Ernest Macintyre INTRODUCTION The Mahaweli River, 335 long, the longest river in Lanka, has its beginning in a remote village of Nuwara-Eliya District in the central hills, and ends going into the sea at the Bay of Bengal  on the east coast at Trincomalee. As it passes Kandy, the main town of […]

The ICCPR Act, modelled on an international human rights treaty meant to prohibit national, racial and religious hatred, has been distorted in Sri Lanka to punish blasphemy and target minorities.

Pat Cummins has returned serve at critics over the team line-up for the first Test disaster.

A 3.0 magnitude minor earth tremor was reported from Buttala, Wellawaya and Handapanagala, in the Moneragala District, yesterday, according to the National Building Research Organisation (NBRO).The tremor took place between 12.10 and 12.13, the NBRO said.The NBRO said no damages were reported and there is no reason to panic as it was a minor tremor.

By Pradeep Prasanna Samarakoon Maligawatta Police on Friday (10) arrested three suspects with drugs worth Rs. 80 million.The suspects were involved in the distribution of Kerala ganja, hashish and heroin, police said.The suspects were arrested at Kotahena and Wattala, on a tip off. Police also confiscated 125 kilos of Kerala ganja, a kilo of heroin, […]

By Saman Indrajith Sri Lanka needs a new Constitution that protects the rights of all citizens, and implementing 13A or 13+ is not a solution to the problems faced by the people, National People’s Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, addressing Parliament, has said. A referendum should be held, on the new Constitution to be […]

By Uditha Devapriya Prasanna Vithanage’s Gaadi takes place in the last year of the Kandyan Kingdom. It begins with an encounter between Ehelepola Adigar and John D’Oyly, and moves on to scenes of the two of them negotiating the transfer of power in Kandy and the deposal of the king, Sri Vikrama Rajasinghe. In the […]

On 27 January, ultramarathon trail runner Hyun Chang Chung crossed the finish line at the Ceylon Tea Museum in Hanthana, cheered on by new fans from the surrounding local community and his elated family. He had just achieved the superhuman feat of becoming the first person to run the entire 300 km length of The […]

Every day, the poor, long suffering Sri Lankans gorge themselves with pastries, buns, rolls, cakes, all swilled down with sugary tea. Sri Lanka is the land of good tea. They know sugar and carbohydrates are bad for them – but they are addicted to sugar. Sugar is addictive and, after all, they have to eat […]

Sri Lankan trade unions are attempting to dissipate rising mass anger against the government and its escalating social attacks through calling separate isolated actions and promoting illusions that the government can pressured to withdraw new income tax increases.