The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has submitted a proposal to the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) seeking an...
Ondansetron controversy Minister of Health and Mass Media Dr Nalinda Jayatissa has sent a letter of demand for Rs. 1 billion in damages...
Todd Murphy is firming to play his first home Test, after the SCG’s head curator declared the pitch’s green covering...
Palestine was the deadliest place to work as a journalist in 2025, with the Middle East as a whole the...
United States President Donald Trump has said that he will delay the implementation of tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets...
Australia batter Usman Khawaja will retire from international cricket following the fifth Ashes Test against England in Sydney this week....
Around 40 people have died after a fire ripped through a bar in a ski resort in southern Switzerland, police...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake visited the historic Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic) in Kandy on Thursday...
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...
by Ifham Nizam Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera vowed to go ahead with his plan to ban 180 ml arrack bottle (commonly referred to as the ‘quarter-bottle’)...
More countries are tightening their travel restrictions after a new coronavirus variant was identified in South Africa earlier this week, said a BBC dispatch yesterday. It...
Ambassador of Italy to Sri Lanka Rita Giuliana Mannella met Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris on last week at the Foreign Ministry. The discussion focused on...
By Harischandra Gunaratna Tourism industry veteran M. Shanthikumar was elected to head The Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL) following his appointment as the President of...
“Decisions taken after Aug. 31 null and void” by Ifham Nizam Sections of the CEB Engineers Union (CEBEU) have amid rumbles of a blackout over the...
by Dr Parakrama Waidyanatha When the potato crop, the staple diet then in Ireland, began to totally fail with a fungal infestation that lead to the...
Speech by Jaffna District MP Justice C.V.Wigneswaran in Parliament on Friday (26) during the third reading stage debate on Budget 2022 Let me first thank the...
The National Media Forum called on the Parliamentary Council represented by government and opposition members to immediately appoint members to the Right to Information (RTI) Commission...
By CG Uragoda (Continued from last week) We camped under the trees about 100 yards from the water-hole at Hendikema. We slept in hammocks, while our...
CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY By Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum...
Sri Lanka’s prima ballerina, Vajira Chitrasena, 89 now, was conferred the Padma Shri one of India’s highest civilian honours on November 17. The award was in...
by Kumar David Newspapers and websites are filled with columns, essays and Editorials declaiming the botches of the Gotabaya Rajapaksa Presidency, the bondage of servile MPs...
