Sri Lankans across the country marked the Sinhala -Tamil New Year with religious and traditional events. With the dawn of the New Year earlier in the day and other auspicious times large numbers ...

Chennai: To improve pass percentages in Class 10 and 12 public examinations, the Tamil Nadu School Education Department has rolled out a new initiative to provide daily practice questions to students ...

In the May 16 edition of the Leader Post, we see another knee-jerk reaction by the provincial government to a whim that we should have volunteer fire firefighters start burning down old buildings in ...

The Indiana Buddhist Temple transformed into a vibrant cultural hub as Americans and Sri Lankans came together to celebrate the Sinhala and Tamil New Year in a joyful and spiritually uplifting event.

The National Savings Bank (NSB) had organised a series of programmes for Sinhala and Tamil New Year. Prioritising our culture and traditions, these programmes included various activities for the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a veiled dig at Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Sunday, claiming the central government provided more funds to the state than the UPA government but "some ...

New Delhi [India], March 13 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday strongly condemned the DMK government's act of substituting the currency symbol of 'Rs' with Tamil alphabet 'Ru ...

The language debate in Tamil Nadu has intensified following an incident at Pollachi Junction railway station, where Hindi letters were smeared with black paint. The railway officials were quickly ...

About a dozen pages into Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, “Theory & Practice,” she runs into the granite wall between truth and fiction. The narrative involves a young man dreaming of a woman. He has ...

In 1956, the editor William Maxwell was having some trouble with beetles in his roses. “[W]hen I come on the shreds of one that was exquisite in the morning and raddled by noon,” he wrote to one of ...

Sarojini Vibokan recounts her experiences as a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee including her hardships at a refugee camp, publishing a book in her husband's memory, and the interactions with the authorities.

The Tamil capitalist parties based in the north and east of Sri Lanka are deeply divided over their stance in the country’s presidential election to be held on September 21. Whatever their tactical ...