Community Life Saver Programme launched in Puttalam
As per the memorandum of understanding signed between Sri Lanka Jama’athe Islami (SLJI)b and the Sarvodaya Organisation, the first phase of the Community Life Saver Programme was launched as a two-day event with the support of the Puttalam Region and the Puttalam Branch of the Jama’ath. The inaugural event was held recently at Garden View [...]
AAUPCC office bearers 2025/2026
The 34th annual general meeting of the Alumni Association of the University of Peradeniya-Colombo Chapter (AAUPCC) was held on Sunday, March 30, at the Main Auditorium (Sanhinda), Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration (SLIDA), Colombo 7. Past president of AAUP Colombo Chapter D P Mendis PC, was chief guest and Chief Secretary of Western Province [...]
Golden jubilee of Pera 1975 batch
The 50th Golden jubilee of the Peradeniya University batch of 1975 is scheduled to be held on May 17. The event would be held at 8 pm at the University’s Geography Science Auditorium. Batchmates who joined the Peradeniya University Arts Faculty in May 1975 are welcomed by the organising committee. To obtain more information, contact [...]
Damayantha Kuruppu – 50 years of music and memories
“Damayantha Kuruppu Golden Anniversary- 50 years of Music and Memories” will come alive on Saturday, May 17, at 7 pm at the BMICH. This is a show with a difference put together by DK Promotions to relive the memories of the very first concert presented by Damayantha Kuruppu in 1975 at Navarangahala. That show was [...]
Louis found light in blindness to champion social justice and activism in journalism
Appreciation Louis Benedict was my friend, my mentor and my guide in journalism until he passed away in the early hours of April 22, probably providently a day after Pope Francis’s earthly life ended, for both had similar views on matters spiritual and issues besetting the world. Ours was a nearly 40-year friendship. Today I [...]
Gaza war exposes the tale of Western intrigue in West Asia since WWI
Today it is becoming increasingly clear that the ongoing Israeli genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory of Gaza has been a well-coordinated and executed war crime. Continuing events have exposed the complicity of the US, the UK, Europe and despotic Arab rulers in the execution of Israel’s genocidal attacks. Through his weekly articles to the [...]
One hundred days that shook US foreign policy
By Richard Haass, especially to the Sunday Times NEW YORK – We are barely 100 days into US President Donald Trump’s second term, but much is already clear. Trump 2.0 is starkly different: more confident and surrounded by a team determined to implement a far more sweeping agenda. Those staffing the administration—amplifiers more than restrainers, [...]
The quick and easy way to put Trump in his place
By Paul De Grauwe, Project Syndicate, Exclusive to the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka LONDON – Donald Trump’s tariff chaos has already offered some valuable lessons about both the US economy and Trump himself. By applying these lessons to their tariff responses, countries can sharply undercut Trump’s ability to bully and coerce them. One [...]