“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

November 13, 1993 will be 31 years since bombs were dropped by the Air Force over St. James Catholic Church in Gurunagar, ...

Relive the Golden Age of railway travel on the best and most iconic historic routes that still run today, from the Orient ...

Rev. Saundranayagam, two decades of your missions to Wanni, has been in vain. The International Community have got nothing to do with the internal investigation on the disappearance of Rev. Fr. Jim ...

In Colombo, the Missionaries ... with the 200th anniversary of the church. The parish also has a special meaning for Mother Teresa. It is the community that she visited the most when she stayed in Sri ...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Sri Lanka Meteorology Department has issued a Red Warning for heavy rain in the Western, Sabaragamuwa, and North-Western Provinces, as well as the Galle and Matara Districts.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power Party won at least 123 of the 225 seats in parliament, according to ...

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his ...

Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning president wins over a two-thirds majority in parliamentary election.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s coalition took an early lead in parliamentary elections seen as a test of the ...

Sri Lanka began counting votes cast on Thursday in a snap general election that will decide if the Indian Ocean island nation ...

The National People’s Power won a parliamentary election that will allow the country’s new president to unroll his reform ...