BASL condemns Ranjan Jayalal for obstructing lawyer The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday strongly condemned Kaduwela Mayor Ranjan...
Electricity consumers have opposed a government plan to obtain loans from the World Bank to meet the cost of repairs...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to further jail terms following a...
The US has seized an oil tanker that had recently departed from Venezuela, according to the US Department of Homeland...
There was a little bit of rustiness as India returned to action 50 days after becoming ODI world champions, but...
Opener Sameer Minhas blitzed his way to 172 off 113 balls, setting up Pakistan’s demolition of India in thDeepeshe Under-19...
In the third Test, they rose again, but there was to be no Christmas miracle. Despite a gutsy fight from...
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that steps are being taken to abolish the Executive Presidency and establish a parliamentary...
The full speech delivered by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Parliament (2025-12-19) “Today, we have presented to Parliament the largest...
The IMF Executive Board approved emergency financing under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI), providing Sri Lanka with immediate access to...
In response to severe weather impacts, the Sri Lanka Navy conducted a diving and technical assistance operation on Friday (19...
The Landslide Early Warning Centre of the National Building Research Organization (NBRO) has extended the Landslide Early Warning issued to...
A high-level discussion between Environment Minister Dr. Dhammika Patabendi and British Deputy High Commissioner Theresa O’ Mahony was held yesterday afternoon at the Ministry of Environment,...
Lives of three Lankan women claimed by the disease each day Over 1,000 participants took part in Sri Lanka’s first-ever nationwide TLC Triathlon, an initiative to...
Mahanama College and Royal College reached the semi-finals of the Under 19 Division I Tier A cricket tournament with convincing victories in the quarter-final matches played...
In a ceremony that marked not just the opening of a building but the celebration of a national financial institution, the People’s Bank inaugurated its new...
Thursday 9th October, 2025 Former Army Commander Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka is in the news again. He has launched a propaganda offensive to vilify the Rajapaksa...
Besides the White House trumpeting the latest Middle East peace plan as an outstanding success, quite a few prominent states of the West and the Middle...
Considering the Buddha’s advice that we should endeavour to see things as they really are, one may argue that rituals should have no place, at all,...
Speaker, Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne, on Tuesday (07), endorsed the certificate on the Convention against Doping in Sport (Amendment) Bill. The Second Reading Debate on the Convention...
The World After Gaza by Pankkaj Mishra (Fern Press, London) 2025 By Jayantha Somasundaram (Part II of this article appeared yesterday) The attack on the...
LOVI Ceylon, in collaboration with Events by Shero and Cinnamon Grand Colombo, hosted a heartfelt send-off dinner in honour of Sri Lanka’s national women’s cricket team...
Sumathi Information Technologies (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka’s leading Geospatial Engineering Solutions provider and a subsidiary of Sumathi Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, unveiled the country’s first-ever DJI Dock...
I am honoured and humbled to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from this most prestigious institution University of Peradeniya. I am grateful to...
