When Vijaya, the first King of the island of Sri Lanka, arrived in Sri Lanka from India in 486 BC, he brought with him a flag with a symbol of a lion on it. Since then the Lion symbol played a ...

Every year on February 4, Sri Lanka celebrates Independence Day, a special day for our beautiful island. It’s a day to ...

Dutugemunu's banner is seen with a royal lion carrying in its raised right paw a sword and also the emblems of the sun and moon while that of Elara is a plain banner with four horizontal lines. Flags ...

Today we celebrate the 77th Independence Day.  Independence for the Dominion of Ceylon came on 1948. Since then, Sri ...