Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014. According to a paper ...

To commemorate 20 th death anniversary of former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, who was assassinated by the LTTE on August 12, 2005, we publish extracts of a presentation titled "Three ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- War-torn Sri Lanka is now sliding into a religious conflict, Christian and Buddhist sources told United Press International Thursday. "The persecution of Christians is on the ...

GENEVA, April 7 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation have just released a report that examines the impact of a cash grant provided by UNHCR to help ...

The ongoing conflict between the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) and the Sinhalese-dominated government has kept Sri Lanka in civil war for the last 27 years. A designated terrorist group, the LTTE are accused of ...

The Jaffna Peninsula at the northern tip of Sri Lanka, off-limits for decades because of the country’s civil war, is home to one of the richest collections of corals on the island, a study shows. Led ...

On Tuesday, December 6 at 6:30 p.m., Asia Society New York will host a film screening — Channel 4's Sri Lanka's Killing Fields — and a panel discussion with Channel 4’s Callum Macrae, The Nation’s ...

In the past two decades, Sri Lankan scientists have pioneered an effort to track the movements of more than 100 elephants using GPS satellite tracking collars. Panu Kota, one of the last two remaining ...

“Aphantasia” describes a condition in which one is unable to create mental images: the imagination has no visual register – it is blank. The exhibition titled After-Aphantasias at Delhi’s Bikaner ...

Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014. Despite nearly three ...