Too much sun, too little water, and that too laced with chemicals may be taking a toll on the kidneys of farm workers.

The fast-bowling allrounder from rural Madhya Pradesh grabbed every cricketing opportunity that came her way and now finds ...

Reviving Sri Lanka’s textile heritage with eco-friendly innovation.

Dissanayake’s speech paying glowing tribute to sham independence and demanding that class interests of workers and the ...

Hiruni Fernando was very much in the spotlight, in the local scene, especially when she formed an all-girls group, called ...

The Tamil scholar “Pundit” M. Nallathamby, a teacher at Zahira College, Colombo was entrusted this task and a neat, precise ...

Usvatte-aratchi Two thoughtful short essays on schools and education appeared in The Island newspaper on January 20th and 21st. The first was written by Lokubandara Tillakaratne, and the second by ...

…Poetry oozes somewhere out of Colombo’s toxic Beira, surrounded by so-called modern ‘millennial’, ‘hi-tech’ companies and boutique hotels with fanciful but ultimately useless architecture, who are ...

Kate’s books are highly plotted but her method is to create the characters, the place and make sure she knows the real ...

MYGroup, a UK-based waste management and recycling company, is launching a sustainable textile project in Sri Lanka, designed ...