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...
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,...
Several tankers carrying Iranian oil have crossed the United States blockade line in the Strait of Hormuz, according to a...
An ODI between Canada and Netherlamds in King City Toronto on Tuesday was abandoned due to a dangerous pitch. The...
Joshua Da Silva and Amir Jangoo have earned recalls to West Indies’ squad for the two-match World Test Championship series...
England’s spin attack, led by Sophie Ecclestone’s three-wicket haul, secured their second win in as many games as they beat...
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has decided to summon former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to record a statement regarding the attacks on the...
Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong said that they sincerely hoped that Sri Lanka could maintain unity and stability and that China will continue to...
Following his meeting in mid-April, Lankan High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda has again met Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India Nirmala Sitharaman Friday (27)...
Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris met US Ambassador Julie Chung at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday and held wide-ranging discussions on bilateral relations, current...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Government has allowed private bunker fuel operators to import fuel for industries, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said on Friday, in a...
by Rajan Philips Although the May 9 Temple Trees ‘coup’ ended disastrously for its orchestrators, the coup’s purpose may have been fulfilled indirectly, even if only...
by Eric. J. de Silva I had always an interest in the subject of public service training and when Mr B.H. (Buddhi) de Zoysa, the Director...
ECONOMYNEXT – Hundreds of anti-government protesters agitated in front of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesighe ’s office Colombo demanding justice for May 09 attack by the supporters...
by Gnana Moonesinghe At long last the nation has a new prime minister who has a unique record of having been PM of the country five...
Her lawyers file appeal challenging sentence Colombo Chief Magistrate Buddhika Sri Ragala on Friday sentenced Shashi Weerawansa the wife of former minister Wimal Weerawansa to two...
by Kumar David The spirit of my heading is not a mocking: ‘He can’t get anything done; his Interim Administration (IA) is an exercise in futility’...
An internet blogger put it very well when he said that Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a man nobody wants and Ranil Wickremesinghe, a man nobody elected, are in...
