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 Uditha Devapriya When I look back at 2022, what strikes me more than anything else is how agonisingly slowly it passed. The early days of...
Ruweni from the label “Innovation ” is always passionate about fabrics, from denim to silks, cottons and rayon. “My mother and me have always been a...
by Capt. Elmo Jayawardena Christmas is special, rather very special. Everybody looks forward to Christmas. Silent nights and silver bells, mistletoe and pine smells, all wrapped...
By Norman Palihawadane The Police Headquarters said on Friday that a special security programme has been implemented throughout the country for the safety of the people...
by Kumar David I have wondered why though I am an agnostic Christmas has always been meaningful to me. The merrymaking, the family gatherings, eating and...
The forthcoming local government elections, widely considered a litmus test on the popularity, or the lack thereof of the government, weighs on the minds of the...
By NIHAL ABEYASINGHA (Groundviews) The process of ethnic assimilation, common in the pre-British era, largely ceased under colonial rule when communal identities were fostered and emphasized....
Excerpted from volume ii of Sarath Amunugama’s auotobiography In the public mind today Gamini is often coupled with Lalith Athulathmudali because they jointly sponsored an impeachment...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana No doubt, there would have been many a sigh of relief on reading the excellent piece “Second thoughts on the last thought”...
Story By Nadeeshani Ekanayaka Associate Member – IOB Bird migration remains one of nature’s enthralling wonders, which has piqued the research interest of many birders worldwide. Recently...
If we start from the top and go down the list of what we used when we were young, it would be an interesting compilation. Some...
by Hugh Karunanayake Royal College as well as the other leading schools in Colombo have produced some outstanding orators who have graced the national scene both...
