Red rice has cultural significance ... according to the Agrarian Development Board. Sri Lanka’s 2.5 million farmers comprise 30 per cent of the country’s workforce and are engaged in two ...

Unlike in our neighbouring countries, many red rice varieties are quite common in Sri Lanka. One day I took a few of my South Asian friends who had visited Colombo for a meeting, for their last-minute ...

Rice shortages in Sri Lanka have disrupted the Hindu Thai Pongal celebrations ... Preparing Pongal, a dish of red rice and coconut, is the core ritual of the festivities. However, the island nation's ...

Taking in verdant tea country and historic stations, the island’s railway network makes for a perfect way to explore ...

By Anuradha Hiripitiyage The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) says that deploying troops to search for hoarded rice by millers would not yield the desired results. Addressing the media in Colombo ...

Glimpses of local life caught through the window, moments of connection with your fellow passengers, the chance to slow down ...

Profits at Sri Lanka based Jat Holdings, a producer of construction material, grew 81 percent to 489.5 million rupees in the ...

If there’s one thing that defines Sri Lanka’s vibrant streets, it’s the irresistible aroma of sizzling snacks, spicy curries, ...

In a related development, Sumith de Z Abeysiriwardena, who retired prematurely as Director of the Rice Research Institute (RRI) in Sri Lanka, had developed red basmati rice in the Dambulla region ...

General, the country’s chief prosecutor, has reversed his earlier decision to discharge three key suspects in the Lasantha ...

Red rice too was short in some areas ... Lenin, though not common, was not totally unknown in then Ceylon and now Sri Lanka. If fact we even have a Joseph Stalin leading a teachers’ trade union and ...