Authorities have announced a list of the 25 best Films from the 75-year history of Sinhala talkie cinema, spanning from 1947 to 2022.

His compatriots know him as a novelist. But scholars say he must be acknowledged as a modernist intellectual, significant for ...

Emeritus Professor Deshamanya J.B. Disanayaka, the most senior academic and a distinguished figure among contemporary Sinhala scholars in Sri Lanka will be felicitated at a ceremony on Friday, June 13 ...

Dr. Ubayasiri Wijayananda Wickrama - Copper engraving, 'De Stadt Colombe' [The Town of Colombo], from a Dutch book c. 1775, after the original engraving by Johannes Kip of 1680. / A man buys a Sri ...

Born Matharage Rita Genevieve Fernando on November 11, 1934, in Mount Lavinia, she later became known by her stage name Latha Walpola. Encouraged by her mother, she began singing in her school church ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s leftist President-elect on Sept 22 invited his compatriots to help him “rewrite” history in the cash-strapped island nation after winning a vote coloured by discontent over an ...

Udaya Gammanpila - Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka / Maithripala Sirisena - Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka Credit: Facebook - Udaya Gammanpila / Maithripala Sirisena Independent news and ...