We were excited to meet relatives who were visiting Sri Lanka after a decade – like everyone ... sitting with my grandfather and learning about maps without understanding anything.

The 2004 tsunami was not simply a natural disaster but a graphic exposure of the failure of the capitalist system, the ruling ...

Sri Lanka's navy rescued more than 100 people believed to be Rohingya refugees who were found adrift aboard a fishing trawler ...

Sumita Singha reviews a new monograph on Minnette de Silva that explores the legacy of Sri Lanka's first woman architect ...

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

Most important visitors to the country called over at Temple Trees to pay their respects to the prime minister. One of the ...

More than 227,000 people died in the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and experts warn it could happen again.

Dr. Verghese Kurien, who is often referred to as the ‘Milkman of India,’ was quite revolutionary in agriculture, working ...

VFX house Lux Aeterna used wave height data from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration for National Geographic's ...

The Silk Road, that network of trade routes connecting the East to the West and synonymous with the Chinese civilisation, is ...

Under the direction of Portuguese missionaries, large quantities of ivory sourced from their East African colonies came to be used to carve ecclesiastical statuettes by indigenous artisans.