By Shamindra Ferdinando Justice and National Integration Minister Harshana Nanayakkara said yesterday that the Cabinet was studying a set of...
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was admitted to a private hospital yesterday morning (12). Meanwhile, former First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa, who...
Former Zimbabwe fast bowler and umpire Sarah Dambanevana passed away in Harare on Monday. She was 36. A Zimbabwe Cricket...
Even counting the win against Bangladesh at the Asian Games Sri Lanka have lost 12 T20Is to the two they...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 13 October 2026 Issued at 2.00 p.m. on 12 October 2026 by the Department of Meteorology A...
Maaz Sadaqat crashed 96 off 51,Sahibzada Farhan clobbered 73 off 44, and Pakistan scorched their way through the last 12...
At least 139 people, including 15 children, have died and 84 are missing after a boat capsized off the coast...
US President Donald Trump has said he thinks “it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president” as he responded...
Matt Renshaw produced a herculean 190 and powered Australia to an unlikely first-innings total before Josh Hazelwood dismissed South Africa...
Pope Leo XIV has declared that the death penalty is “inadmissible” while his home country, the United States, announces plans...
The latest attack on King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital has injured several people, according to the country’s...
Hurricane Isaias has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone the day after it made landfall along the northern Gulf Coast...
When insurgents finally gained control of the town of Kyaukme – on the main trade route from the Chinese border to the rest of Myanmar –...
The US has announced new sanctions targeting Russia’s two largest oil companies – Rosneft and Lukoil – in an effort to pressure Moscow to negotiate a...
China overtook the United States as Germany’s largest trading partner during the first eight months of 2025, preliminary data from the German statistics office has shown....
GENERAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR NEXT 36 HOURS Issued at 04.00 p.m. on 22 October 2025 by the Department of Meteorology The low pressure area off the...
Indomitable Australia were at it again, this time with an unbroken 180-run stand between Annabel Sutherland and Ash Gardner which dug them out of early trouble...
A tense atmosphere prevailed in Parliament yesterday following the announcement of the killing of Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman (SJB), Lasantha Wickramasekara, who succumbed to gunshot injuries...
Upon the signing of Agreement by Jayantha Jayasuriya, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations and Janine Coye-Felson, Ambassador and Permanent Representative...
At the plenary of the 222nd Session of the UNESCO Executive Board in Paris, Sri Lanka reaffirmed its strong commitment to multilateralism and to UNESCO’s mission...
Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is a highly contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. For most healthy adults, it is a miserable but temporary...
It will accrue to the collective economic benefit of the South Asian region that Afghanistan and Pakistan have decided to give peace a chance in their...
Thursday 23rd October, 2025 Nary a day passes without a new headline about a controversy stirred by the JVP-led NPP government. It was reported yesterday that...
Power and Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody told Parliament yesterday (22) that the debt-ridden and mismanaged Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) couldn’t be turned around within 10 or...
