India wants to upgrade the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, signed in 2000 during Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s presidency. Declaring that...
Sri Lanka’s creditors were unlikely to classify the recent USD 2.5 million Treasury fund heist as a technical debt default,...
Three prison guards attached to the Welikada Prison have been arrested by Borella Police following the death of an inmate...
Spanish police have seized what is thought to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the...
Three people have died and a UK national is seriously ill in hospital after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a...
President Donald Trump says the US struck seven Iranian “fast boats” after vowing to help stranded vessels out of the...
There were smiles at last for Mumbai Imdians (MI) on a night that hadn’t looked promising when Nicholas Pooran’s fireworks...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 04 May 2026, valid...
President of the Maldives, Dr Mohamed Muizzu, who is on a State Visit to Sri Lanka at the invitation of...
For years, India’s West Bengal state was the great exception to Narendra Modi’s political advance. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
The top half of the IPL 2026 points table is an utter logjam.Punjab Kings (PBKS), unbeaten through their first seven...
Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine thrived on a slower-than-usual Hyderabad pitch to halt Sunrisers Hyderabad’s five-match winning streak in IPL...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 21 JANUARY 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 21 January 2026 by the Department of Meteorologyy The prevailing dry weather conditions are expected...
A simmering confrontation between the government and the powerful Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) trade unions intensified yesterday, with the latter signalling continued industrial action, even as...
Of over 37,000 held in country’s prisons, nearly 27,000 are suspects Dumbara Prison built to accommodate 699 persons is now being expanded to hold 2,900 persons....
A Criminal Court has remanded two Sri Lankan nationals, arrested for alleged violence in Velana International Airport (VIA), in custody for 15 days in the southern...
The World Bank has asserted that Sri Lanka’s economic growth would be slowed down in 2026 and 2027.The World Bank in its latest Global Economic Prospects...
The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) yesterday said that approximately 1,000 Sri Lankans would be sent to Israel for home-based nursing jobs in 2026....
Every January, we make grand resolutions about our finances. We promise ourselves we’ll save more, spend less, and finally get serious about investments. By March, most...
Wednesday 21st January, 2026 A rice tycoon has become a clout chaser, posting ostentatiously on social media about his extravagance ad nauseam. He has been TikToking...
A significant portion of the history of paediatrics is a triumph of prevention. From the simple act of washing hands to the miracle of vaccines, preventive...
We express our profound concern and deep outrage at the vulgar, misogynistic, and defamatory attacks being directed at the Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Dr....
Humour and the Creation of Community: “As melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness, so humour is comedy that has lost its bodily weight”. Italo...
Sri Lanka’s decision to invest Rs. 2.5 billion in restoring the heavily polluted Beira Lake marks one of the most significant urban environmental interventions in recent...
