The international day for the conservation of the mangrove ecosystem fell on 26 July.

My atthamma, Khema, was born in 1929 in Matara. She married Mahanama, a lawyer, and later, a government Minister, and by age 27 she was a mother to three children.

"President Wickremesinghe now says Sri Lanka should be an “Educational hub.” Given heavy weightage in this government’s recovery aspirations, what role would FDIs play in an “educational hub”? Does he believe a free-market economy that failed for over 40 years can now be turned around in this crisis, yet again with incentives for FDIs? With free markets that decide everything on profits for tomorrow, no government will be able to plan formal education for unknown development."

By Megan Carnegie

The Miracle Dome, a cutting-edge International Conference Services Institute (ICSI), is situated on a sprawling 530 perches plot of land in Katunayake.

Doctors at a protest in Colombo. (Reuters Photo)

Not just for the media, everything else in this country needs to be regulated, said chairman of Sri Lanka Foundation Saman Athaudahetti.

By Victor Ivan

Hollywood film director James Cameron, who directed the 1997 movie Titanic, has told the BBC the team who built the submersible which imploded with the loss of five lives had "cut corners".