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...
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...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya in her New Year message invited all Sri Lankans to step into 2026 with renewed...
An elephant known as “the world’s saddest elephant” has died at the Manila Zoo.During a news conference on Wednesday, Mayor Honey Lacuna announced that Mali the...
By Saman Indrajith Chief Opposition Whip and SJB Kandy District MP Lakshman Kiriella called on Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to summon before the Privileges Committee those...
Friday 1st December, 2023 The Health Ministry has unfortunately become a metaphor for corruption, and public faith in the state health service is eroding. What’s the...
by Neville Ladduwahetty An MP is reported to have claimed that several types of vegetables and yams have been imported at a cost of $293 million....
By Rathindra Kuruwita Sri Lanka needs to establish fast charging stations to promote the use of electric vehicles, Engineer K.M.YS. Konara, senior lecturer at the department...
The Indian High Commission here said yesterday it signed two agreements for the construction of 10,000 houses in plantation areas of Sri Lanka under Phase-IV of...
About a million Sri Lankans were admitted to hospitals due to accidents annually, Minister of Industries and Minister of Health, Ramesh Pathirana told parliament on Tuesday...
At least 30 people were injured after a bus veered off the road and toppled in Welikanda, North Central Province on Thursday (30), police said.The injured...
The newly-appointed High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Dharmapala Weerakkody assumed duties at the High Commission on 29 November 2023. Addressing...
Japanese Ambassador Mizukoshi Hideaki said that the Lanka-Japan Friendship Society (LJFS) holds a special place in the history of our bilateral relations. As the oldest existing...
By Uditha Devapriya At this year’s Convocation, the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) honoured the late Jayantha Dhanapala “for his invaluable contribution to diplomacy and...
Inconceivable, unbelievable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, unaccountable, perplexing and plain shocking are the terms that came to Cassandra’s mind as she read the stunning news that the President...
