The ongoing West Asia war, triggered by joint Israel-US attack on Iran on 28 Februar, has benefited the China-run Hambantota...
A three-day “study visit” by the subject Minister to the Norochcholai coal power plant has triggered concern among power sector...
Mohammed Shami’s miserly 2 for 9 and Rishabh Pant’s uncharacteristic half-century helped Lucknow Super Giants [LSG] open their account in...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 05 April 2026, valid...
Sameer Rizvi picked up his second Player-of-the-Match award in as many games in IPL 2026, this time scoring 90 off...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 04 April 2026, valid...
Iran has executed two men convicted of being members of the banned People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) opposition group,...
An earthquake in Afghanistan has killed eight members of the same family when their home collapsed in the Gosfand Dara...
Iraq’s qualification for the FIFA World Cup 2026 has completed the lineup of 48 nations for the tournament hosted by...
A total of 365 US service members have been wounded in action since the start of the US-Israeli war with...
Reagent scandal: Deputy Director of the National Hospital, Dr. Rukshan Bellana, has been interdicted by Health Service Committee (HSC) of the Public Service Commission (PSC) following...
The Opposition has claimed that the government forced three of its Colombo Municipal Council members to to skip yesterday’s vote on the annual budget of the...
Sri Lanka’s power system has suffered a major setback with two of the three generators at the coal-fired power plant at Norochcholai going out of service,...
Health Secretary Dr. Anil Jasingha has requested IGP Priyantha Weerasooriya to ensure his security and take action against those issuing death threats. Dr. Jasingha, in a...
Among numerous other schemes, under its High Impact Community Development Projects (HICDPs) framework in Sri Lanka, the government of India (GoI) has been extending financial assistance...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has protested against the way the NPP/JVP government promoted judicial officers (magistrates, district judges), judges of the High Court...
Thursday 1st Junuary, 2026 The CID arrested EPDP leader and former minister Douglas Devananda last Thursday in connection with an ongoing investigation into a pistol issued...
‘Adapt, shrink or die’ – thus runs the warning issued by the Trump administration to UN humanitarian agencies with brute insensitivity in the wake of its...
Sri Lanka’s tourism sector reached a historic milestone yesterday as the country welcomed its 2,333,797th tourist for 2025, officially surpassing the previous all-time arrival record of...
I have no intention of even implicitly commenting on the legality of the ongoing incarceration of Douglas Devananda. I’ve no legal background, and that’s because having...
Parliament passed 26 Government Bills during the First Session of the Tenth Parliament in the one-year period from January 1 to December 31, 2025, according to...
Sri Lanka is moving to substantially revise penalties imposed for marine pollution, with authorities acknowledging that the current maximum fine of Rs. 15 million under existing...
