Sri Lankan military personnel took part in a parade on Tuesday to mark the country's 77th Independence Day. Sri Lanka ...

Under British colonial rule, the economy of Sri Lanka was transformed to become a producer of agricultural ... intellectuals who took advantage of the opportunity to gain a western-style education, ...

That was three years ago in 2022 on the eve of its purported 75 th Independence Day celebration. This year, February 4 th Independence day, would be marked with great pomp. 80 million rupees have been ...

In October this year, the university in Jaffna completes its first 50 years. But the idea of setting up a modern Western-style institution of higher learning, an American-style College ...

The little-known coastal town of Galle is almost a Sri Lankan ... included Ceylon. Colonial architecture, especially martial, is its leitmotif: Portuguese and Dutch forts and British colonial ...