“Lots of tourists who travel to Kandy, stop by Molagoda to see Loku Raja and take his pictures. School children also come to see the elephant very often,” Appuhamy says, adding that the tusker was ...

And when the elephant in question is the tusker Kaveri Raja, one of the ‘Daelay Athas’ that walks beside the Maligawa tusker carrying the golden ‘Karanduwa’ in the Kandy Esala Perahera, it is indeed ...

Dubai: In Sri Lanka, a traditional road toll has taken an amusing twist as a 40-year-old elephant named Raja has become a self-appointed toll collector. Along the Buttala-Kataragama road ...