India wants to upgrade the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, signed in 2000 during Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s presidency. Declaring that...
Sri Lanka’s creditors were unlikely to classify the recent USD 2.5 million Treasury fund heist as a technical debt default,...
Three prison guards attached to the Welikada Prison have been arrested by Borella Police following the death of an inmate...
Spanish police have seized what is thought to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the...
Three people have died and a UK national is seriously ill in hospital after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a...
President Donald Trump says the US struck seven Iranian “fast boats” after vowing to help stranded vessels out of the...
There were smiles at last for Mumbai Imdians (MI) on a night that hadn’t looked promising when Nicholas Pooran’s fireworks...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 04 May 2026, valid...
President of the Maldives, Dr Mohamed Muizzu, who is on a State Visit to Sri Lanka at the invitation of...
For years, India’s West Bengal state was the great exception to Narendra Modi’s political advance. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
The top half of the IPL 2026 points table is an utter logjam.Punjab Kings (PBKS), unbeaten through their first seven...
Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine thrived on a slower-than-usual Hyderabad pitch to halt Sunrisers Hyderabad’s five-match winning streak in IPL...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 03 May 2026, valid for 04 May 2026. The Heat...
China has declared that China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) will not proceed with the USD 3.7 bn Hambantota oil refinery project unless a consensus could...
The Sri Lanka Association of Divisional Secretaries and Assistant Divisional Secretaries (SLADA) has written to the Secretary to the President requesting the withdrawal of a decision...
The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has issued a Gazette notification, detailing amendments to the Value Added Tax (VAT) system, which are scheduled to...
The National Dengue Control Unit has reported a total of 25,082 dengue cases across Sri Lanka during the four-month period, from January 1, 2026, raising continued...
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Minister Piyankara Jayaratne have been summoned by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) on May 12,...
Around 120 foreign nationals have been arrested in a major police raid carried out at a location on Meda Welikada Road, in Rajagiriya, over alleged involvement...
The 59th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors is set to commence this week, bringing together finance ministers, central bank governors, policymakers and development leaders...
The S.J.V. Chelvanayakam KC Memorial Lecture delivered on 26 April, at Jaffna Central College, by Professor G.L. Peiris, an academic with outstanding credentials, was published, under...
Monday 4th May, 2026 Rice farmers are in a paddy. They are complaining that they have been left without fertilisers for the current cultivation season. The...
Sri Lankan scientists have revealed that households, restaurants, hospitals and farms across the country discard large quantities of food daily, despite growing concerns over food insecurity...
Two of the three Kandy District organisers who recently quit the SJB have been appointed as UNP organisers. Those who resigned from the SJB are retired...
