Mounting concerns over drug safety and regulatory oversight have triggered strong calls from medical professionals and trade unions for the...
China has pledged its full support to Sri Lanka’s economic and social recovery efforts in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah,...
The Hydrology and Disaster Management Division of the Department of Irrigation has issued flood warnings for the Mahaweli River Basin...
Volodymyr Zelensky is urging European Union leaders gathered at a crunch summit in Brussels to loan billions of euros in...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will crack down on hate speech following Sunday’s deadly shooting at Bondi...
The Bay of Plenty lived up to its name but only for New Zealand. Devon Conway and Tom Latham harvested...
Australia have not yet officially retained the Ashes, but it already seems a matter of “when” not “if” after England’s...
Winter storms are worsening conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, as aid agencies warn that Israeli...
An official meeting was held between Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC)...
The landslide early warning centre of the National Building Research Organization [NBRO] has issued Level III landslide early warnings to...
Astonishingly, this Ashes series is just seven days old, but it remains in no mood to slow down and take...
Sri Lanka has named a young squad for the forthcoming T20Is against India, bringing in the likes of 17-year-old ambidextrous...
The ‘Rebuilding Sri Lanka’ Fund, launched to support communities affected by Cyclone Ditwah and to facilitate national recovery efforts, continues to attract generous support from local...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 17 DECEMBER 2025 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 17 December 2025 by the Department of Meteorology Under the influence of the Easterly winds,...
Officials of the Ministry of Transport and Highways and Urban Development yesterday said that due to the destruction of roads and bridges across the country by...
The expansion of Sri Lankan Ayurveda in the United Kingdom was marked a few days ago at the Sri Lanka High Commission in London, with the...
As global attention focusses on high-stakes peace negotiations, a definitive Sri Lankan perspective on the promise and perils of negotiated conflict resolution comes to print At...
A 55-year-old wild elephant that suffered severe burn injuries at Seeppukulama succumbed to death around 4.00 p.m. yesterday, despite treatment by the Department of Wildlife Conservation...
Cyclone Ditwah: Cyclone Ditwah, which swept across Sri Lanka at the end of November, caused massive damage to the country, the extent of which need not...
On the morning of November 28, 2025, Cyclone Ditwah made an unremarkable entrance, meteorologically speaking. With winds barely scraping 75 km/h, it was classified as merely...
Wednesday 17th December, 2025 The Colombo Port is always in the news for the wrong reasons. More than 300 container trucks loaded with cargo are waiting...
Former Minister C.B. Rathnayake, remanded on 02 December, following his arrest by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC), was granted bail yesterday...
Sri Lanka’s improving tax performance is reshaping its sovereign risk outlook. With the tax-to-GDP ratio rebounding to 15.4% from pre-crisis lows near 10%, markets are seeing...
Former Sri Lanka cricketer D. S. de Silva has passed away in London on Monday following a brief illness. He was 83. A stalwart from the...
