Former Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, PC, yesterday urged the Department (CID) to question former Attorney General Dappula de Livera,...
Beijing Capital Airlines to resume direct flights between Beijing and Colombo in September this year, restoring an important air link...
A rest day on Monday will be followed by a double-header on Tuesday. Defending champions New Zealand will take on Sri...
US President Donald Trump has said a preliminary deal to end the war with Iran has already been signed and...
There are heists, and then there are heists, and the one at Sabina Park on Sunday will live long in...
Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma bailed India out with bat and ball respectively to fire them to an emphatic opening...
Boualem Khoukhi scored an equalising goal on a header in the fourth minute of stoppage time, and Qatar spoiled a...
Nestory Irankunda and Connor Metcalfe have scored as Australia have spoiled Turkiye’s return to the World Cup for the first...
The New York Knicks won the National Basketball Association championship for the first time in over 50 years, sending the...
Dasun Shanaka produced the batting ballistics, Kamil Mishara held the innings together, and Sri Lanka’s spinners dominated the middle overs,...
Three buses lined up at the City Street Station to ferry a long queue of cricket enthusiasts for the opening...
Vinicius Jr spared Brazil the embarrassment of defeat in an opening World Cup match for the first since 1934 as...
A daredevil social media free-climber nicknamed the “Spider-Man of Yemen” has died after falling into a volcanic crater in the country’s south-west. Al-Qaqa Ibn Antar had...
Marius Borg Høiby, the 29-year-old son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been found guilty of two counts of rape and sentenced to four years in...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 16 JUNE 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 16 June 2026 by the Department of Meteorology Several spells of showers will occur in...
Tuesday 16th June, 2026 The world must have breathed a sigh of relief yesterday following the announcement that the US and Iran had agreed to sign...
… detainee’s wife challenges Shani’s decision Director CID SSP Shani Abeysekera has declined to grant permission for Asith Siriwardena, Counsel for Maj. Gen. Suresh Sallay, detained...
On 16 June 1976 began the revolt of school students in Johannesburg’s black underserved settlement complex, which kick-started the process of dismantling Apartheid. Long before the...
Sri Lanka has secured three bronze medals at the 60th International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad (IMChO), held at Moscow State University from April 15 to 22, marking...
Valikamam North Pradeshiya Sabha has asked Jaffna Security Forces headquarters to halt the construction of a military hospital at Vasavilan. The Illankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK)-run...
In a coordinated effort to curb illegal activities, the Sri Lanka Navy, in collaboration with the Police Special Task Force (STF), arrested a suspect attempting to...
Civil society group Free Lawyers, who first raised the theft of USD 2.5 mn from the Treasury last year, has requested President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and...
After his recent trip to England where he was originally scheduled to do three shows but ended doing seven, Ravi Sebastian is in the news again....
Easter Sunday attacks: The Colombo Permanent Trial-at-Bar yesterday (15) declared that the verdict in the case filed by the Attorney General against former Defence Secretary Hemasiri...
