India wants to upgrade the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, signed in 2000 during Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s presidency. Declaring that...
Sri Lanka’s creditors were unlikely to classify the recent USD 2.5 million Treasury fund heist as a technical debt default,...
Three prison guards attached to the Welikada Prison have been arrested by Borella Police following the death of an inmate...
Spanish police have seized what is thought to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the...
Three people have died and a UK national is seriously ill in hospital after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a...
President Donald Trump says the US struck seven Iranian “fast boats” after vowing to help stranded vessels out of the...
There were smiles at last for Mumbai Imdians (MI) on a night that hadn’t looked promising when Nicholas Pooran’s fireworks...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 04 May 2026, valid...
President of the Maldives, Dr Mohamed Muizzu, who is on a State Visit to Sri Lanka at the invitation of...
For years, India’s West Bengal state was the great exception to Narendra Modi’s political advance. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
The top half of the IPL 2026 points table is an utter logjam.Punjab Kings (PBKS), unbeaten through their first seven...
Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine thrived on a slower-than-usual Hyderabad pitch to halt Sunrisers Hyderabad’s five-match winning streak in IPL...
BY GEORGE BRAINE This was early 1981, and the government was planning to start a state-run television service. Applicants were invited for an inaugural training course...
by PRIYAN DE SILVA Minister of Agriculture, Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation, Mahinda Amaraweera, has said the government should purchase the Maha paddy harvest from...
The media was not allowed to cover the magisterial inquiry into the death of Dinesh Schaffter. Family and relatives of the late Janashakthi Director, Schaffter had...
The arbiter of last resort is Sri Lankan civil society; ultimately, it is we who must organize, come together and hold the Executive to account. They,...
His sureties summoned to court Justice Ministry Secretary Wasantha Perera yesterday (04) said that her Ministry was aware that underworld kingpin Kanjipani Imran, who was on...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Applications for postal voting, from eligible voters, for the 2023 Local Government elections, will be accepted from January 05 to 23 midnight, an...
The government has increased the excise duty on alcohol and cigarettes by 20 percent. State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya has announced the duty revision. Excise...
Parliament should pass the proposed Bill on election campaign finance soon and take into account the positive criticisms thereof, Karu Jayasuriya, Chairman of the National Movement...
The Government of India (GoI) has chosen Thiru Sivakumar Nadesan, Managing Director of Express Newspapers, who is also the Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Press Institute...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Fisheries yesterday (04) launched a modified multi-day fishing vessel at an event...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe visited the Embassy of the Holy See (Vatican Apostolic Nunciature, in Colombo, yesterday morning (04), to express his condolences on the demise of...
A copy of the full-length Sinhala language biography of Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka, “Baron; Magaerunu Maga” ( බාරොන්- මඟඇරුණු මඟ), written by senior journalist, Lakshman Piyasena,...
