India has come forward to help Sri Lanka resolve the politically sensitive and festering issue of integrating the two primary languages, Sinhala and Tamil. India has come forward to help Sri Lanka ...

The Ministry of Education (MoE) intends to have all Sinhala and Tamil Literary works of Sri Lankan authors translated into Tamil and Sinhala respectively. Accordingly, the Library & Documentation ...

An oft-quoted saying of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, former premier of Ceylon who came to power in 1956 upon a wave of nationalism goes: “I have never found anything to excite the people in quite the way ...

He further said he had taken this decision on the basis that Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim people constituted one single race in Sri Lanka. According to the BBC Tamil service report, Minister Tennakoon ...

Sri Lanka's Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) announced this week that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the use of Sinhala and Tamil ...

The news item appearing in Dailymirror last week was like a bolt out of the blue. It said the national anthem would be sung in Sinhala language only at the forthcoming celebratory event of Sri Lanka ...