Mounting concerns over drug safety and regulatory oversight have triggered strong calls from medical professionals and trade unions for the...
China has pledged its full support to Sri Lanka’s economic and social recovery efforts in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah,...
The Hydrology and Disaster Management Division of the Department of Irrigation has issued flood warnings for the Mahaweli River Basin...
Volodymyr Zelensky is urging European Union leaders gathered at a crunch summit in Brussels to loan billions of euros in...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will crack down on hate speech following Sunday’s deadly shooting at Bondi...
The Bay of Plenty lived up to its name but only for New Zealand. Devon Conway and Tom Latham harvested...
Australia have not yet officially retained the Ashes, but it already seems a matter of “when” not “if” after England’s...
Winter storms are worsening conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, as aid agencies warn that Israeli...
An official meeting was held between Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC)...
The landslide early warning centre of the National Building Research Organization [NBRO] has issued Level III landslide early warnings to...
Astonishingly, this Ashes series is just seven days old, but it remains in no mood to slow down and take...
Sri Lanka has named a young squad for the forthcoming T20Is against India, bringing in the likes of 17-year-old ambidextrous...
Many architects and artists worked with the Aluwihare Heritage Centre which Ena set up in her ancestral home, to commemorate her 100th birth anniversary. She wanted...
(UCAN)The Churches in Asia need to seize the moment to stress the Asianness of the Church as Pope Francis encourages Church communities to become more grounded...
By Michael Patrick O’Leary Tobacco Bungalow Twenty years ago, we moved from a land without snakes to a place where snakes abound. St Patrick (allegedly) drove...
Parliamentary Select Committee on gender equity and equality has set a two week deadline for the submission of draft of the proposed Bill entitled “Gender Equality...
Whether or not President Ranil Wickremesinghe took SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam seriously when the latter publicly pronounced that his party cannot support the recently enacted...
Field trials of indigenously developed GM mustard trials cleared BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, October 29: India’s Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC)...
by Kumar David The Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) constitutes the power elite of the Party and is the ruling...
The High Commission of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Colombo organized a seminar/photo exhibition to mark the ‘Kashmir Black Day’ on Oct 27 at the...
By CHANKA JAYASINGHE AND NESHELLA PERERA ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankans can force a drop in tuk-tuk fares by refusing to hire threewheelers to reduce demand, Transport Minister...
In a bid to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Sri Lanka sending her first Representative to India in 1942, the High Commission of Sri Lanka in New...
By Uditha Devapriya “My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost.” Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia The appointment of...
Edited by Amaya Vershuur On Sunday, July 3, a week prior to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation, I wrote an article called ‘’ in which I reflected...
