Relying heavily on fossil-fuel thermal plants to survive a drought creates a direct macroeconomic emergency. Sri Lanka does ...

Behind the Rotary Foundation’s Cyclone Ditwah Response Fund sits the Rotary global grant mechanism. It was built precisely to ...

Nepal was bracing for Super El Niño. Then it got hit by a two thousand feet wide glacier collapse way up in the Himalayas ...

The executive presidency introduced under J. R. Jayewardene was designed to provide political stability, decisiveness and ...

It is with a deep sense of sadness that I record the passing of Dr Upatissa Pethiyagoda, who died on 27 August 2026 at the age of 94. To many, he was a distinguished scientist, an accomplished ...

The Mothers’ Association for the Missing has now, for almost 6 years, continued their struggle for the missing in Jaffna, and national-level organisations have also been following various incidents ...

This is an account of one project, in one place, at one moment, and it should be read that way. Fifty-one families now have ...

His statement after the collapse of the trade talks has been universally called Davos II, the first being Mr. Carney’s ...

A personal injury claim in Raleigh lets someone hurt by another party’s negligence recover money for medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering. North Carolina’s strict fault rules make it ...

In his Prelude to The Undying Light A Personal History of Independent India, Gopalkrishna Gandhi (Gopal to his friends) shares with his readers how and why this tome came to be written. The text of ...

Dr Brian Senewiratne is our hero and more precisely our hero amongst the Sinhalese. So much so I had written an ‘Ode’ to him in 2006 and my husband wrote about him in October 2011 calling him a true ...

A representative group of over hundred people are submitting their responses to the Director General of the Coast Conservation and Coastal Management Department at Maligawatta on the 6th of January. A ...