Sri Lanka's arrack producers are trying to take the spirit upmarket Distilled from the sap of the coconut flower, Sri Lankan arrack has been a local favourite for centuries. But now its makers are ...

GEORGE BRAINE I moved to Boralessa, my ancestral village, in 1977. Many villagers – who made a living as masons, carpenters, ...

VILLUPURAM: Seven men from a village near Vikravandi recently fell ill after consuming arrack brought from Puducherry. Five were discharged on Tuesday, and two are still under treatment due to pre ...

The arrack ban was introduced by Antony late in his previous tenure as chief minister. The step, rendering tens of thousands of arrack workers jobless, was aimed at wooing women voters in the ...

From fashionable lounges to local watering holes, here are the best places to drink in Sri Lanka’s happening capital ...

The spirit is a blend of 14-year-old rums aged in ex-bourbon and Batavia Arrack leggers (a type of barrel) sourced from ...

Gunmen apparently working for a drug cartel killed an American in Mexico, and one of the alleged killers was a deserter from ...

Mr. Wijenayake had started his career as a clerk in government service and had worked in places as varied as the Attorney General’s department, our embassy in the Soviet Union, and parliament itself.

To keep them under control, not only were they subjected to long training, but also, according to the scholar Jos Gommans, ...

For nearly two decades, state universities have been under siege. They were targeted by a deliberate campaign of ...

All two-wheelers belong to the same motorcycle company as they found it easier to resell them in the black market. They sold ...

In an International Bar Exchange, Sri Lanka’s premier arrack-specialty bar, Ropewalk, will host AMPM Kolkata for an exclusive event on November 9. Known for its inventive cocktails and artisanal twist ...