Drug controversy: “Setting up state-of-the-art drug testing facility will cost Rs 5 billion” Activists call for legal action against politicians,...
Air quality in Sri Lanka has deteriorated in recent days, with Air Quality Index (AQI) levels rising, particularly in the...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to further jail terms following a...
The US has seized an oil tanker that had recently departed from Venezuela, according to the US Department of Homeland...
There was a little bit of rustiness as India returned to action 50 days after becoming ODI world champions, but...
Opener Sameer Minhas blitzed his way to 172 off 113 balls, setting up Pakistan’s demolition of India in thDeepeshe Under-19...
In the third Test, they rose again, but there was to be no Christmas miracle. Despite a gutsy fight from...
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...
Under 19 Division I Cricket by Reemus FeRnando Spinners Sahan Kaushalya and Mewan Dissanayake picked up five wickets each to help their schools record big victories...
By Sirimantha Rathnasekera Officials continue to ignore a directive of the National Transport Medical Institute to the Commissioner General of the Department of Motor Traffic to...
By Chitra Weerarathne The Court of Appeal yesterday issued summons on SLPP MP and State Minister Sanath Nishantha.This summons is in respect of a contempt of court...
President of the Yuthukama organisation MP Gevindu Cumaratunga yesterday said that despite all gloom and doom predictions and statistics of a crisis prevailing in the country...
The Veddah Chief, Uru Warige Wannila Aththo, has also called for a general election. With all the nonsense taking place in the Parliament these days, a...
By Gwynne Dyer Vladimir Putin’s desperation was plain in the emergency measures he declared last week: immediate mobilisation of at least 300,000 more troops, the sudden...
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men...
China had been a real friend of Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said on Wednesday at the 73rd Anniversary of Chinese National Day celebrations organised...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne The world’s largest Palmyra spirit factory will be opened at the end of the year in the Tikkam area in the Jaffna District....
The global tourism industry is set to bounce back strongly after the post-pandemic speed bump. On World Tourism Day, actors and stakeholders in the industry are...
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI: India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday declared the Popular Front of India (PFI), a Muslim...
At the initiative of the global sustainable agriculture specialist Solidaridad Network, the apex edible oil industry associations from five major palm oil importing countries from Asia...
