GMOA denies allegation, calls for independent probe by a panel of experts The Health Ministry is considering whether criminal liability...
The government yesterday (11) unveiled sweeping amendments to National Environmental Act No. 47 of 1980. It had been last amended...
Jess Phillips, a high-profile Labour minister, has quit in protest as Prime Minister Keir Starmer refuses to heed growing calls...
Bangladesh’s bowlers combined to trounce Pakistan by 104 runs in the first Test in Dhaka. Nahid Rana struck decisive blows...
South Africa fast bowler Shabnim Ismail has reversed her international retirement and is included in the Proteas’ squad for this...
The Bangladesh government has formed a committee to look into the previous government’s decision to not allow the team to...
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has arrived to appear before the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) this...
The US has been holding regular negotiations with Denmark to expand its military presence in Greenland, according to multiple officials...
US President Donald Trump has said the month-long ceasefire between the US and Iran is on “massive life support”. He...
Bangladesh edged ahead of Pakistan on a day cut in half by rain and bad light, with Monimul Haque and...
In a topsy-turvy contest, Delhi Capitals (DC) pulled off the highest successful T20 chase by any team in Dharmasala to...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 12 MAY 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 12 May 2026 by the Department of Meteorology The...
BBC reported that a suicide bomb attack outside the Afghan foreign ministry in Kabul has caused heavy casualties. Police said at least five civilians had been...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 12 January 2023 by Department of Meteorology Mainly fair weather will prevail over most parts of the island.
Major move after acceptance of genocide charge By Shamindra Ferdinando Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, yesterday (11) summoned Acting Canadian High Commissioner Daniel Bood over the...
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,...
