BASL condemns Ranjan Jayalal for obstructing lawyer The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday strongly condemned Kaduwela Mayor Ranjan...
Electricity consumers have opposed a government plan to obtain loans from the World Bank to meet the cost of repairs...
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that steps are being taken to abolish the Executive Presidency and establish a parliamentary...
The full speech delivered by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Parliament (2025-12-19) “Today, we have presented to Parliament the largest...
The IMF Executive Board approved emergency financing under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI), providing Sri Lanka with immediate access to...
In response to severe weather impacts, the Sri Lanka Navy conducted a diving and technical assistance operation on Friday (19...
The Landslide Early Warning Centre of the National Building Research Organization (NBRO) has extended the Landslide Early Warning issued to...
The United States military is “striking very seriously against ISIS [ISIL] strongholds in Syria”, President Donald Trump said, a week...
Pakistan marched into the final of the Under 19 Asia Cup with a clinical eight wicket win over Bangladesh in...
Vihaan Malhotra and Aaron George’s patient half-centuries helped India beat Sri Lanka in a rain-reduced game and set up an...
Dasun Shanaka will be Sri Lanka’s T20I captain until the end of the forthcoming T20 World Cup. The move to...
GovPay, Sri Lanka’s Government Digital Payment Platform concluded the year 2025 by surpassing Rs. 2 billion in total digital transaction...
By Eng Parakrama Jayasinghe parajayasinghe@gmail.com Sri Lankans have not forgotten the advice given by one of our former Presidents: “Citizens should look after their own security.”...
Talks between the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and President Ranil Wickremesinghe ended inconclusively, TNA spokesman, Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran, said. Sumanthiran said the issues concerning the disappearances...
The Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court yesterday (11) permitted former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to travel abroad from January 20 to January 31. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID)...
Rex Clementine in Calcutta Sri Lanka have improved their fielding tremendously over the last few months having identified fielding as one discipline where they needed to...
ITAK to contest on its own By Saman Indrajith Former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Vigneswaran is to lead a new Tamil political alliance contesting the...
Thursday 12th January, 2023 A failed regime that fears elections and tries to sabotage them is a danger to a democratic society. There is hardly anything...
Predictably, sections of Sri Lankan opinion are seeing some similarities between the recent acts of lawlessness in Brazil, coming close on the heels of the re-election...
Mr. Asoka Samararatna, principal partner of Samararatna Associates, Attorneys-at-Law and Notaries Public, and prominent figure in public interest litigation, passed away yesterday morning upon admission to...
The Supreme Court, yesterday (11), affirmed the conviction and sentence imposed by the Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar against ex-President Maithripala Sirisena’s Chief of Staff, Kusumdasa Mahanama,...
A literal English translation of a speech delivered by Sudharshan Seneviratne Professor of Archaeology, University of Peradeniya, Director Archaeology, Jetavana Project Co-Director, Anuradhapura Citadel Archaeology Project...
Sri Lanka’s economic output will contract again this year, by 4.2 percent, the World Bank said in its Global Economic Prospects report, issued on Tuesday. It...
By Sanath Nanayakkare 95% of microbusinesses supported through the Government and NGO mechanisms tend to become no longer active or successful within 5 years, according to...
