… five senior officials suspended President’s Counsel Maithri Gunaratne has urged the Parliament to intervene in an ongoing investigation conducted...
Colombo Fort Magistrate Isuru Neththikumara has directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to arrest former SriLankan Airlines board member Shasheendra...
The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has issued Landslide Early Warnings to the Districts of Kurunegala and Ratnapura effective from...
US forces have boarded a ship carrying Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean, the US military says. It comes as...
Advisory for Severe Lightning Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre of the Department of Meteorology Issued at 12.00...
Standing on top of a customised van on a hot and humid afternoon in Tirunelveli, about 600km (373 miles) south...
When Gary Kirsten coached India to ODI World Cup glory in 2011, 20 million Sri Lankan hearts were shattered. Now,...
Sri Lanka seamer Nuwan Thushara has withdrawn his lawsuit against Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), just weeks after filing it when...
US Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving the Trump administration, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday. His departure will be “effective...
Israeli attacks have killed five people in southern Lebanon, including a journalist, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported, further straining...
South Africa completed their highest successful chase in T20Is and sealed the five-match series against India with two matches to...
It wasn’t the high-scoring spectacle that people might have expected, especially with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in the house, but that didn’t...
Pre-trial conference on Dec 16 Colombo Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar yesterday (11) acquitted 10 suspects, including former Governor of the Central Bank Singaporean Arjuna Mahendran (Jan...
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has alleged that two persons, a doctor and a professor, who pressured the then government to continue with forcible cremation of Covid-19...
Court of Appeal finds fault with trial judge The Court of Appeal yesterday (11) acquitted former Akuressa Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman, Saruwa Liyanage Sunil from a case...
Two Australian men have been charged with bribing Sri Lankan officials to secure infrastructure contracts worth millions of dollars, Australian media reported yesterday. Australian police arrested...
By Rathindra Kuruwita If President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) are confident that they have public support, they should hold local government...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Having read the writer’s review of ex-Lankadeepa defence correspondent Ratnapala Gamage’s Ranabime Panhinda (Notes from the battlefront), retired Lieutenant L.S.A.N.T. Siriwardhana sought an...
By Dharmakulasingham Aiyampilai The stage is set for the eighth edition of the T20 World Cup in Australia. Host country Australia, the defending champion has put...
The Under 19 Badminton team of Good Shepherd Convent, Kotahena were the runners up at the All Island Under 19 ‘D’ division badminton tournament held recently...
Pesandu Rashmitha Liyanage of Super Knights Chess Club and WCM Ehsha Mishela Pallie of Visakha Vidyalaya won the titles of the National Amateur Open and Women’s...
Late Maharaja’s Group Chairman Killi Rajamahendran was a big cricket fan and served Sri Lanka Cricket as Vice-President in 1980s. He was Board President Gamini Dissanayake’s...
Under 19 Division I Cricket by Reemus Fernando An unbeaten century by Jeewaka Shashin was the batting highlight of the day as his knock of 139...
by Laleen Jayamanne “David Paynter is a great master of painting…his talent and greatness were not properly identified and well appreciated by the Sri Lankan society...
