The Presidential Secretariat (PS) yesterday said that prison regulations concerning Buddhist monks serving prison sentences were expected to be adopted...
The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) has alleged that the ruling UNP, in a ridiculous bid to whitewash illegal...
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...
Hundreds of protesters have been detained in Delhi during the latest demonstration by the Gen-Z led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)...
During the f8rst T20I against Sri Lanka on Friday, Pakistan demonstrated that 2026 is not quite like 2019. Back then,...
Milinda Moragoda, Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, met Matthew Duckworth, the Australian High Commissioner-designate to Sri Lanka. He was accompanied by Lalita Kapur, Acting High Commissioner...
Hasala – Welcome to Sri Lanka again, Bhante. Thank you. Last year I came briefly after being away for nearly 20 years. Now I’m delighted to...
I have lived in exile in the United Kingdom for more years than I care to remember. Now, in retirement, my thoughts often drift back to...
In the latter part of 1970, a group of us left for Moscow on scholarships—young, eager, and filled with dreams. Five years later, in 1975, we...
A special awareness workshop was held in Parliament for the heads of 457 state institutions that fall under the oversight of the Committee on Public Enterprises...
The United Nations (UN) on Thursday launched a landmark study on how climate change, gender and security in Sri Lanka are interconnected. Commissioned by the Joint...
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to assist Sri Lanka in developing its local airports, officials said on Friday. The commitment was made during...
There is no rosy picture on the horizon for Asia, nor for much of the planet. West Asia will continue to burn, its embers fanned by...
By Uditha Devapriya After what seems to have been an eternity, it was refreshing to hear a Prime Minister who knew what she was talking about...
Highlighting the Urgency of Conservation through Photography Dilmah Tea celebrated the Top 70 including 37 award winners of a unique photography competition and exhibition ‘One Earth:...
“They look close to dead,” says Sri Lankan farmer Shantha Dissanayake looking at his pruned mango trees. “They looked close to dead,” says Sri Lankan farmer,...
Every stitch is a livelihood, a story, a cultural memory – Amalie Seneviratne Yevāana sets its sights on global expansion, with plans to enter the USA,...
