Credit: Wikimedia Commons [CC BY 3.0]. Starting from 1816, the 35-year-old king, the last sovereign of the kingdom of Kandy, spent 17 years in exile in Vellore Fort. This was a steep fall for a ...

along with the financial costs of the British expedition to Kandy, had convinced D’Oyly that there were alternative ways of subjugating the Kandyan Kingdom. Having arrived in Ceylon in 1801 at ...

the United Kingdom, Thailand, Canada and South Korea travelled to Kandy yesterday morning by train from the Colombo Fort Railway Station to participate in the inauguration of the Siri Dalada ...

The ‘Siri Dalada Vandanawa’, a special veneration of the Sacred Tooth Relic, will commence today (18) after 16 years. President Anura Kumara Disanayake, along with Ambassadors, High Commissioners and ...

The name Kandy is derived from the Sinhalese Kanda Uda Pas Rata, literally ' the five districts on the mountain'. The Portugese shortened this to 'Candea', using the name for both the kingdom and its ...

As I ventured into the heart of Sri Lanka’s highlands, Kandy unfolded like a vivid tapestry, woven with threads of its colonial past and the lush, green vibrancy of its famous tea plantations.

Colombo, April 18 (Daily Mirror) - Foreign diplomats representing several countries travelled to Kandy this morning in ... the United Kingdom, Thailand, Canada and South Korea are among those ...