Reagent scandal: Deputy Director of the National Hospital, Dr. Rukshan Bellana, has been interdicted by Health Service Committee (HSC) of...
The Opposition has claimed that the government forced three of its Colombo Municipal Council members to to skip yesterday’s vote...
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as mayor of New York City, becoming the first Muslim and the youngest person...
Countries around the world are welcoming the New Year as midnight strikes from time zone to time zone. The island...
Highlighting the spirit of global and regional cooperation, the Sri Lanka Navy acknowledged the invaluable support by foreign warships, which...
A train driver has died and at least 40 people have been injured in a head-on rail collision near Peru’s...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya in her New Year message invited all Sri Lankans to step into 2026 with renewed...
According to figures released by the Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation there have been 58,454 international aircraft movements in...
Lasith Malinga has once more been retained as consultant bowling coach for Sri Lanka’s men’s team, as they prepare for...
The Inland Revenue Department has succeeded in collecting Rs. 2,203 billion in revenue in 2025, the highest amount recorded in...
Protests and strikes in Iran over inflation and currency devaluation have spread from the capital, Tehran, to several other cities...
The year 2025 has been recorded as the highest revenue-earning year in the history of Sri Lanka Customs, stated Director...
The right-wing network Newsmax will pay $67m to a voting technology firm over outright false claims it made about United States President Donald Trump’s 2020 election...
United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to convene a face-to-face summit between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his latest...
Five jockeys have been banned for 10 days after they failed to pull up in a chaotic flat race at Windsor where a blindfolded loose horse...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 19 AUGUST 2025 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 19 August 2025 by the Department of Meteorology A few showers will occur in the...
The Illegal Assets Investigation Unit has moved to confiscate properties worth hundreds of millions of rupees belonging to two alleged top-tier drug traffickers, Ruwan Chamila Prasanna,...
ITAK calls it off claiming success after govt. assurances The hartal staged across the Northern and Eastern provinces yesterday (18), demanding justice for the death of...
US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Shelly Seaver, and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sport....
The Kandy Esala Perahera has sparked a tourism surge, with Lanka recording a 17.1% year-on-year rise in visitor arrivals during the first 13 days of August,...
Financial education must become a national priority if Sri Lanka is to overcome its debt challenges and avoid future crises, urged Robert Kiyosaki, the globally acclaimed...
(Continued from yesterday) Reference by courts to mediation is a universally accepted phenomenon. In the recent Churchill case (November 2024), the UK Court of Appeal determined...
Tuesday 19th August, 2025 The ITAK has claimed that its hartal in the North and the East yesterday was a huge success. All state institutions however...
The meeting of 17 major opposition figures to discuss political strategies received wide publicity. Those who attended the meeting denied that it was to oppose the...
