Sri Lanka’s banking sector has provided a collective and categorical assurance that it remains stable, resilient, and secure despite a...
Most of the country’s major rivers remained at normal levels despite intermittent overnight rainfall, according to the Irrigation Department’s Hydrology...
A new draft peace proposal says Iran would fully restore commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to pre-war levels...
With the Women’s T20 World Cup looming into view, this three-match series across the green swards of Chelmsford, Bristol and...
It has been revealed that fake news created using the name, photographs, and video footage of Prime Minister Dr. Harini...
The commander of Hamas’s military wing, Mohammed Odeh, has been killed in a strike in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday...
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s IPL 2026 was going nowhere four games into the season. They had won just one game, their bowling...
Dozens of people have been killed in an intensive wave of Israeli strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon, after Israeli...
Rajat Patidar led defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) into the final with the quickest innings of 90 or more...
Vijay Shankar, who retired from Indian domestic cricket and the IPL recently, headlines the Lanka Premier League 2026’s marquee signings....
The Paddy Marketing Board has approximately 115,000 metric tonnes of paddy stocks purchased from farmers, which are currently stored in...
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the resolution furnished by the President in his capacity as the Minister of Finance,...
The United States has launched strikes on targets in southern Iran, the US military has said, as Tehran’s top negotiators gather in Qatar for talks aimed...
Pope Leo XIV has called for the “disarming” of artificial intelligence (AI), warning that “new forms of slavery” are tied to its rise. The Catholic Church...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 26 MAY 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 26 May 2026 by the Department of Meteorology The Southwest Monsoon is gradually establishing across...
Election monitors have strongly condemned JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva’s Jaffna declaration that the long-delayed Provincial Council polls couldn’t be held this year due to financial...
The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) says Sri Lanka’s total exports, comprising merchandise and services, reached US$ 1,380.93 million in April 2026, recording a year-on-year...
Retired Maj. Gen. Suresh Sallay’s Counsel Shavendra Fernando, PC, recently told Colombo Fort Magistrate Pasan Amarasena that Mohammed Milhilar Mohammed Hanzeer alias Azad Maulana’s statement that...
‘Those who benefited from her actions forgot her’ By Shamindra Ferdinando British citizen Kayleigh Fraser, who has been in hiding here since late 2022 following a...
Sri Lanka has sought Somali help to ascertain the whereabouts of a Sri Lankan sailor, abducted on 21 April this year. He was among a 17-member...
Environmental crises in Sri Lanka are no longer merely conservation issues but constitute an economic and corporate survival challenge that directly threatens the country’s water security,...
Tuesday 26th May, 2026 The Opposition derived perverse pleasure from the rupee’s tumble, which they apparently thought signalled the beginning of the end of the JVP-NPP...
Aragalaya betrayed? ‘The treason of the intellectuals’ in the age of populism – Part II The JVP/NPP conceptualisation of the ‘Jathika punarudaya’ (national renaissance) interpreted the...
In a significant move aimed at steering Sri Lanka’s environmental governance towards a more science-based and evidence-driven path, the Ministry of Environment has initiated a new...
