The NPP government is trying to maintain a balance between continuing demands for releasing north-east land held by the military...
Colombo Chief Magistrate Lahiru de Silva yesterday granted bail to Yoshitha Rajapaksa, second son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, on...
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...
Ghana’s fans and players celebrated wildly as Caleb Yirenkyi finished a sweeping counterattack with a tap-in goal in the fifth...
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, has announced that a memorandum of understanding with the United States has...
A game that began with the prospect of a chastening defeat for Pakistan at South Africa’s hands did, indeed, end...
Australia gave themselves another significant net run-rate boost by dispatching Bangladesh with ease at Headingley, restricting them to 77 for...
In overcast Headingley conditions, an all-round performance from Shafali Verma, who scored her first fifty at a T20 World Cup,...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne CSE trading started on a positive note yesterday but did not sustain its momentum due to unfavourable macro- economic conditions. High global prices...
Most of our local artistes hardly come up with original English songs. The trend is to put out songs, in Sinhala. Having realised this, Priya Peiris,...
The World Bank would disburse approximately USD 700 million to Sri Lanka within the next few months, the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday (30). This pledge...
By Ifham Nizam The Minister of Power and Energy has refused to grant some CEB engineers permission for foreign travel for factory testing of equipment. Ceylon...
* Anton Goonetilleke (ex-Jade – Philippines) It is with a heavy heart that I follow what is going on in Sri Lanka today. Our political system,...
Three major developments in the latter part of the last century have changed the economic, political and ideological context of the Sri Lankan economy for good....
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his address to the nation, proposed to set up a National Council consisting of the Speaker, the Prime Minister, the Leader...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Sri Lanka will have to import around 700,000 metric tons of rice as the paddy harvest will drop by 50%, this Yala season,...
Monday 30th May, 2022 There seems to be no end to ominous warnings in these troubled times. The government has warned that electricity tariffs may increase...
Death of girl in Bandaragama By Norman Palihawadane and Pradeep Prasanna Samarakoon Investigations by the CID, Kalutara Divisional Crime Investigations Unit and the Bandaragama police into...
By Norman Palihawadane Police said yesterday that no complaint had been made about an incident where Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa was attacked at Galle...
World’s first all-organic farming nation faces worst-ever crisis By Faraz Shauketaly There are queues for petrol, diesel, gas, kerosene, etc. Husbands, wives and children wait in...
