By Norman Palihawadane The matriarch of an elite Panadura family watching evening television in her mansion was recently gagged and robbed of her gold bangles (thee sovereigns) by an employment agency-provided domestic aide who had worked for her for four days. Police who have been unable to make any breakthrough into this case warned prospective […]

By MEL GUSSOW Elizabeth Taylor, the actress who dazzled generations of moviegoers with her stunning beauty and whose name was synonymous with Hollywood glamour, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 79. A spokeswoman at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said...

As far as I know, places of worship have enough people who worship to pay their electricity bills. Going by the number of buildings/sizes and A/C comforts etc. in these religious places, I don’t think it is necessary to give them relief at all – for temples with one small one story building may need ...

by Ranil Wickremesinghe By the 4th century BC, Asia had begun its first cycle of economic growth and power. This was the reason why Alexander the Great decided to travel eastward to establish an empire. At that time there was...

By Tisaranee Gunasekara “You’ve made the world in to a madhouse….an enclosure in which the sane are trampled underfoot by a herd of galloping lunatics”. - Ernst Toller (Hoppla, Such is Life!) We are living through a transformative time, a...