During the first discussion of the expert committee appointed to support the ministerial committee for the national education policy framework held at the Presidential Secretariat on...
More than 100 people have drowned and more are missing after a boat carrying them down the River Niger in south-western Nigeria capsized on Monday, authorities...
At least 78 people have died and many more are feared missing after a fishing boat carrying refugees and migrants capsized and sank off the southern...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 15 June 2023 by the Department of Meteorology Several spells of showers will occur in Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-Western...
Deaths in police custody and torture continued despite Supreme Court interventions, the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has alleged. Demanding tangible measures to address the...
A team of Sri Lanka Army doctors has broken a Guinness World Record by removing the world’s largest and heaviest kidney stone (calculus). Consultant Urologist, Lt....
The news that Far Right groups are making their presence felt in Australia would have come as an unpleasant surprise to defenders of democracy and pluralism...
by Kalyananda Tiranagama Executive Director Lawyers for Human Rights and Development (Part IV of this article appeared in The Island of 14 June 2023) Dolawatta’s counsel...
By Rathindra Kuruwita President Ranil Wickremesinghe would meet the members of the Paris Club next week, Cabinet spokesman Bandula Gunawardena told reporters on Tuesday. Gunawardena said the President would be...
The government of Norway extended its support to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka’s flagship portfolio on SDG (Sustainable Development Goals)16: Peace, Justice...