‘Bar Association must reveal its stand’ Civil society group ‘Free Lawyers’ has requested Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena to probe...
The Canadian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Isabelle Martin over the last weekend met representatives of the...
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...
David Warner became the 10th man in Test history to score a century in his 100th Test, and the second to score a double, breaking a...
BBC quoting Chinese officials reported that China will scrap quarantine for travellers from 8 January, marking the last major shift from the country’s zero-Covid policy. After...
BBC reported that a severe winter storm that has swept across North America has left the city of Buffalo, New York, looking like a war zone....
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 am on 27th December 2022 by Department of Meteorology: Several spells of showers will occur in the Northern, North-Central and Eastern...
21-A prerequisite for IMF loan: By Shamindra Ferdinando Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, owed an explanation as regards his claim that the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
Tuesday 27th December, 2022 The 18th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami was marked yesterday with a series of commemorative ceremonies. More than 35,000 lives were...
By Jehan Perera The night bus to Jaffna was also fully booked. Those who had returned on holiday from the diaspora were happy to be back and...
Among the 16 new heads of missions appointed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government, are former Foreign Secretaries, Chitranganee Wagiswara and Admiral Jayanath Colombage. The following is...
By Dr Laksiri Fernando One mistake we normally make in analysing the situation or crisis in Sri Lanka is to do it in isolation. Sri Lanka...
By Rathindra Kuruwita The national fuel consumption had dropped by 50 percent towards the latter part of 2022, compared to the first few months of the...
By Norman Palihawadane The Colombo Crimes Division has taken into custody four suspects for allegedly assaulting social media activist Dilan Senanayake with sharp weapons on 14...
By Rathindra Kuruwita About 497 Sri Lankans have been killed in violence during the first 11 months of 2022, according to crime statistics released by the...
