President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has instructed officials to give top priority to restoring the livelihoods of communities affected by the...
The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) reported yesterday that 211 people had gone missing following the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah....
The government, in its 2026 budget has allocated Rs 704 billion (Rs 605.5 bn recurrent expenditure and Rs 98.8 bn as capital expenditure) to provide quality...
A sum of Rupees 654 billion (Rs 543.1 bn as recurrent expenditure and Rs 111.1 bn as capital expenditure) has been allocated to provide health services...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake delivering the 2026 Budget, said that the government expenditure for the year 2026, including debt servicing, is Rs. 8,980 billion. Of this...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake delivering the 2026 Budget said that the estimated total revenue for the year 2026 is Rs. 5,305 billion. Of this, Rs. 4,850...
A British grandmother who spent 12 years on death row in Indonesia after being convicted of drug trafficking flew home on today [Friday] , as part...
Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 188 people in the Philippines and five in Vietnam, according to the latest figures from the two countries. The storm...
The Cabinet of Ministers have approved the 2026 Budget propsal which will be presented in Parliament this afternoon.
Attackers firing machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades have boarded a ship off the coast of Somalia, United Kingdom officials say of the latest assault, likely by resurgent...
Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Aasif Manzoor, a 32-year-old cricketer from Anantnag, a district in the south of Indian-administered Kashmir, was readying himself on Saturday morning to...
A jury in the state of Virginia in the United States has awarded $10m to a former teacher who was shot by a six-year-old student. The...
Led by their spinners and a vital pair of inroads from Shiyan Dube, India impressively defended what had initially seemed a slightly light total to take...
Quinton de Kock scored the first hundred since his international comeback, and 22nd overall, as South Africa drew level in the ODI series against Pakistan. Tony...