Proposed education reforms have drawn sharp criticism from education professionals, teacher unions and student organisations, who warned on Thursday that...
Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa on Friday told Parliament that the Buddhism textbook contained a “serious error,” citing the...
Rescue workers are racing to find dozens of people still missing following a landslide at a landfill site in the...
US President Donald Trump has asked for at least $100bn (£75bn) in oil industry spending for Venezuela, but received a...
The US and its partner forces have carried out large-scale strikes against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Syria, the...
Georgia Wareham towered over the rest with an impressive all-round show to lead Gujarat Giants to an impressive opening match...
After a nail-biter slipped through their hands in the last over of the opening night of WPL 2026, defending champions...
That Sri Lanka is experiencing an especially nasty north-east monsoon over the past several months is clear. It washed out...
Warning for depression to the East of Sri Lanka Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre, Department of Meteorology ...
It isn’t often that India get a 22-day break from international cricket. Rarer still for the most commercially lucrative team...
Nadine de Klerk’s sensational late onslaught, eerily reminiscent of the heist that turned the tables on India at the 2025...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called anti-government protesters “troublemakers” and “a bunch of vandals” just trying “to please...
For once our political leaders have shown leadership qualities. Sajith has to be praised and garlanded for taking a step back and conceding the the ticket...
M. Sornarajah Emeritus Professor of Law National University of Singapore. What took place on July 9, 2022 was an immense event in the political history of...
by Leelananda de Silva In the 1970s there was concern in Sri Lanka and elsewhere about the migration of skilled people from their home countries. This...
ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka’s central bank requests bank loan borrowers to apply to a concession scheme it has introduced to businesses adversely affected by the ongoing economic...
And in the cross-hairs by Kumar David As events unfolded it was not surprising that Aragalaya (Sinhalese for struggle) turned out to be not one unified...
By Charles Seevali Abeysekera BROMLEY, UK, Jul 19 2022 (IPS) – Sri Lanka is officially bankrupt and a failed state in all but name. How did a country...
by Rajan Philips Ranil Wickremesinghe is the third Sri Lankan President older than seventy years to assume office. He is seventy four, JR Jayewardene was seventy...
Scaling up good practices leading to policy implications in the Mannar Landscape The wetland environment is one of the most priceless gifts of nature. Harmful human...
The Institute of Supply and Materials Management (ISMM) is to celebrate its 50th anniversary on Oct 24, 2022 with an international seminar on sustainable supply chain...
by ECB Wijeyesinghe Everybody who writes about Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten must feel like Virgil, the Latin poet, who began his immortal epic. the Aeneid, with...
Who would have thought queues would be miles long; of people, motor bikes, various types of vehicles with even a toy car parked to mark a...
Business confidence in Sri Lanka is at its lowest in years, according to the chairman of the Ceylon Chambers of Commerce Vish Govindasamy. “Business confidence is probably...
