About 85% of Sri Lanka's 22 million population celebrate the New Year on April 14, observing auspicious times and visiting family. Gifting new clothes and sweetmeats is a key part of the celebrations.

The Sri Lankan community in and around the townships of Cooma, New South Wales, celebrated the Sinhala and Tamil New Year for the third consecutive year on April 13. The community of about 80 families ...

Srilanka, April 14 -- Let us step into the New Year with renewed hope and a vision, as we continue to work together toward "a prosperous country and a beautiful life." I extend my heartfelt wishes ...

By Prof. Nalin Abeysekera Sri Lankans are celebrating the traditional New Year, and we can see that despite many obstacles people wanted to move back to their normal lives. The country has suffered ...

The Sri Lankan Association in Kenya, under the leadership of its President Lasitha Perera, hosted a New Year celebration recently at the Nairobi Sikh Club. The event brought together more than 500 Sri ...

The Sri Lankan community in York came together to celebrate the country’s new year. About 150 people turned out for the event on Saturday (April 27) at Strensall and Townthorpe Village Hall.

Asoka Samarasena, president of the association for the past 15 years, said it's a tradition in Sri Lanka done for all important functions, with New Year's being a major one. "It's celebrated by ...

Sri Lankan new year, known as Aluth Avurudda among the country’s majority Sinhalese population and Puthandu among Tamils, the largest minority group, is celebrated just as the rice harvest is ...

Fortune teller Andara Maanage Chandani, who runs a small shrine at her home near Colombo, says she used to make enough money to buy clothes for all eight members of her family every Sri Lankan New ...