Amidst ongoing accusations that the theft of USD 2.5 mn (nearly 1 bn Rupees) from the Treasury hadn’t been properly...
The Court of Appeal yesterday (18) postponed until June 25 the hearing of a petition filed by former Minister Nalin...
Stafanie Taylor navigated a huge scare at the hands of Scotland as West Indies scrapped their way to a second...
Thirty-five people have been killed after gunmen struck Niger’s largest airport on Thursday, officials say – the second attack in...
The US has dropped its naval blockade of Iran after the two countries signed a deal to end the war...
Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education, Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, stated that it is the Government’s priority...
Johan Manzambi scored a late brace after coming on in the 71st minute, following goals from Ruben Vargas and Granit...
The United States provided details of the 14-point memorandum of understanding it reached with Iran on Wednesday. Neither has released...
Scotland take on West Indies in Leeds at 18:30 local time (17:30 GMT) in Group 2 of the Women’s T20...
Moscow has come under the largest Ukrainian attack since the start of the full-scale war, with close to 200 drones...
Oil prices have dropped following the United States and Iran’s signing of an interim peace agreement, resuming a slide interrupted...
Leaders of the G7 have pledged at a summit in France to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences and increase pressure on...
Following a historic 12,000-nautical-mile voyage from Baltimore, Maryland—the longest ever undertaken by a Sri Lanka Navy crew to bring a vessel home and the Navy’s first...
A new art exhibition, titled Spectrum ,will be held at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre on the 20th and 21st of June 2026, bringing together a...
“Craving begets sorrow, craving begets fear. For him who is free from craving there is no sorrow; how can there be fear for him,” Dhammapada verse...
No matter how it is framed or softened in institutional language, what a section of India’s judiciary once said by comparing unemployed youth to “cockroaches” remains...
April 20 this year marked the 40th anniversary of one of the darkest and least discussed engineering disasters in Sri Lanka’s history – the failure of...
The Most Venerable Nikapotha Chandajothi Nayaka Thero has been appointed as the Mahanayake of the Udarata Amarapura Maha Nikaya by the Vinaya Wadin Karaka Sangha Sabha,...
Sri Lanka last week launched its “Triple Elimination” programme across all maternal clinics island-wide, strengthening efforts to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases from mother to...
I vividly remember the day when I stepped through the stone-arched gateway of MIT and entered the iconic main building with its grand dome. A shiver...
The ‘Marist Journey from Ego to Eco’ concept, highlighted at the 22nd Marist General Chapter, continues to guide a growing environmental initiative that promotes a shift...
The “Eye Clinic Digitalisation Project” at the Seeduwa Vijaya Kumaratunga Memorial Hospital was officially launched and handed over to the public on Thursday (4), marking a...
The newly established Secretarial Toastmasters Club will hold its inaugural meeting on June 26, 2026, in Colombo, organisers said. The meeting is scheduled to begin at...
My association with committees and commissions of inquiry was still not over. On April 26, 1995, I was appointed to the National Salaries Commission as a...
