Influx of substandard drugs is of particular concern The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has warned of renewed and intensified...
Sri Lanka’s latest elephant census must result in immediate policy action, not remain a paper exercise, Centre for Environmental Justice...
Todd Murphy is firming to play his first home Test, after the SCG’s head curator declared the pitch’s green covering...
Palestine was the deadliest place to work as a journalist in 2025, with the Middle East as a whole the...
United States President Donald Trump has said that he will delay the implementation of tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets...
Australia batter Usman Khawaja will retire from international cricket following the fifth Ashes Test against England in Sydney this week....
Around 40 people have died after a fire ripped through a bar in a ski resort in southern Switzerland, police...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake visited the historic Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic) in Kandy on Thursday...
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as mayor of New York City, becoming the first Muslim and the youngest person...
Countries around the world are welcoming the New Year as midnight strikes from time zone to time zone. The island...
Highlighting the spirit of global and regional cooperation, the Sri Lanka Navy acknowledged the invaluable support by foreign warships, which...
A train driver has died and at least 40 people have been injured in a head-on rail collision near Peru’s...
By Rathindra Kuruwita A large number of health sector unions have decided to go on strike from next Tuesday (02) in protest against what they call...
The Colombo High Court yesterday sentenced General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera (28) to four-year-rigorous imprisonment for making defamatory statements about...
Sri Lanka’s basketball team created a major upset when they beat one of sport’s powerhouses – Korea – in the FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup played in...
Sri Lanka was optimistic about resolving its debt restructuring issues in the second quarter to secure financing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as external creditors...
About 80 percent of the shops at the Pettah Floating Market had closed down by the beginning of the year, Urban Development Authority (UDA) announced on...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Large-scale rice millers would increase prices of rice in the coming festive season, small and medium scale millers alleged yesterday (28).Chairman of Sri...
Women in Sri Lankan State Universities – III An adapted version of the keynote delivered by Prof. Dinesha Samararatne at the International Women’s Day celebration organised...
By Rathindra Kuruwita There were 20,000 patients with kidney issues in the Anuradhapura District by 2023, Dr. Nadeesha Wickramaarachchi, Consultant Nephrologist at the Transplant Centre of...
People’s Bank announced the results for its year ended December 31, 2023 reporting total consolidated operating income and pre-tax profit of LKR 96.8 billion and LKR...
Friday 29th March, 2024 The political marriage of convenience between the SLPP and the UNP, two erstwhile sworn enemies, has lasted longer than expected. They have...
A mystical approach to Easter by Hiran Perera The resurrection of Christ is the corner stone of Christian mystical thought. As such, there are no neutral...
By Uditha Devapriya Until the 1940s and 1950s, much of the arts in Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, remained the preserve of an English-speaking elite. They were...
