‘Bar Association must reveal its stand’ Civil society group ‘Free Lawyers’ has requested Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena to probe...
The Canadian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Isabelle Martin over the last weekend met representatives of the...
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...
In the nearly 42 years I have lived in the United States, I visited Sri Lanka regularly; in the early decades, maybe once a year and...
The letter of appointment (as Secretary to the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and Directer-General of Education) was dated March 30, 1990. This sudden transfer...
This beautiful coffee table book titled “The Story of Furniture in Sri Lanka,” authored by Ayesha Abdur-Rahman, PhD, and published by The National Trust – Sri...
The South Asia Gateway Terminal (SAGT) represents Sri Lanka’s first large-scale, durable, and demonstrably successful Public–Private Partnership (PPP). Conceived in the mid-1990s and implemented amid intense...
Senior journalist Dharman Wickremaratne’s latest Sinhala book, The Unseen Side of the Daya Pathirana Murder, will be launched on 21 January 2026 at 3.00 p.m. at the National Library and Documentation Services...
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, together with the American Chamber of Commerce, Exporters Association of Sri Lanka, Federation of Renewable Energy Developers, Joint Apparel Association Forum,...
Sri Lanka has recorded a significant achievement in the international Scrabble stage with the appointment of three of its representatives to key subcommittees of the World...
We have been hearing about and seeing YouTube videos on the peace march undertaken by Buddhist monks in the United States of America. It is a...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Headquarters in Rome issued an appeal calling for international assistance of USD 16.5 million to support the early recovery of...
The HALO Trust, the world’s largest humanitarian landmine clearance organization, has appointed Rishini Weeraratne as its Ambassador for Sri Lanka. In her new role, she will...
Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, Milinda Moragoda, met with the newly arrived Canadian High Commissioner, Isabelle Martin, in Colombo. The High Commissioner was briefed on the Pathfinder...
Ms. Minaza Hassan, the winner of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Scholarship for a young journalist to undergo a course of study and advanced training at the prestigious Malayala...
