The NPP government has issued a new extraordinary gazette renewing and extending Sri Lanka’s long-standing ban on the LTTE and...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Vijitha Herath held productive discussions with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi today...
Australia captain Alyssa Healy will retire from all forms of cricket following the upcoming series against India. The 35-year-old wicket-keeper...
About 550,000 accounts were blocked by Meta during the first days of Australia’s landmark social media ban for kids. In...
They began with a scrappy last-ball win to kick off WPL 2026, but there was nothing scrappy about Royal Challengers...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has opened an investigation and warned of possible disciplinary action for “unacceptable behaviour of...
The BCB’s integrity unit found “credible suspicion” during the ongoing BPL, which made them undertake “routine” operations, including questioning players...
Gujarat Giants (GG) put on a commanding 209 and would have thought they were well ahead when Delhi Capitals’ (DC)...
With scores of 74*, 135, 102 and 65* in his last four ODIs, Virat Kohli seemed to be telling the...
Dasun Shanaka clobbered 34 off 9 balls, Kusal Mendis, Kamil Mishara, Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Asalanka and Janith Liyanage all...
One person has died and 300 properties have been destroyed in bushfires that have torn across south-east Australia. The fires...
Iran has warned it will retaliate if attacked by the US, as protesters defied a deadly government crackdown on Saturday...
Lankan Muslim Community’s “Break-Fast at Sunset” Iftar will be held today (2) at 5.30 p.m. at Independence Square to which an open invitation is being extended...
Excerpted from Memories that linger…. by Padmani Mendis Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder (Continued from last week) There are some who knew Birmingham...
by Goolbai Gunasekara Excerpted from Chosen Ground: The Clara Motwani Saga (For much of the information in this chapter I am indebted to Visakha students of...
By Uditha Devapriya As of now, Ranil Wickremesinghe has three trump cards he can deal, and he’s dealing all three. First, there is the IMF deal,...
The Resolvers Club of Sri Lanka held its second Annual Pinning Ceremony on March 28 at the Auditorium of Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT...
by Chandra Arulpragasam In 1958 I went to a lecture on coconut cultivation, because I knew nothing of the subject. The lecturer, a well-known coconut planter,...
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka They say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. Well, if...
(PTI) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has offered India to utilise the country’s ports in Chattogram and Sylhet, asserting that it would boost connectivity and enhance...
BP Peiris (Excerpted from Memoirs of a Cabinet Secretary) (Continued from last week) Mervyn’s first question on my reporting to him in response to his letter...
by Hugh Karunanayake Seventy five years ago, the Thurstan Road/ Cambridge Place thoroughfare was one of the most picturesque in Colombo. It was lined on either...
Excerpted from the authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann by Douglas B. Ranasinghe In the 1950s and 60s Thilo kept a flat-bottomed aluminium boat fitted with an...
The other day I had gone to our temple to do a Bodhipooja for my granddaughter who was ill. This is is an age-old Buddhist practice...
