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...
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...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya in her New Year message invited all Sri Lankans to step into 2026 with renewed...
Industry and Entrepreneurship Development Deputy Minister Chathuranga Abeysinghe, together with Kalutara District MPs Nandana Pathma Kumara and Oshani Umanga, visited the ‘Viyawasaya Super Fair – 2025’...
Johan Fernando, son of former Minister Johnston Fernando, was arrested yesterday (30) by the Financial Crimes Investigation Department (FCID). According to police, the arrest follows investigations...
Wednesday 31st December, 2025 The health sector has long been free from the clutches of the likes of Keheliya Rambukwella and his bureaucratic lackeys, but it...
(This is the 100th column of the Out of the Box series, which began on 6 September, 2023, at the invitation of this newspaper – Ed.)...
CC in dilemma over filling impending vacancies Amidst a simmering row over the controversial move to have Deshabandu Tennakoon as the IGP at the time of...
The dawn of 2026 represents a time for critical recalibration, not just ceremony, for the nation’s vital construction sector, says Eng Nissanka N Wijeratne, Secretary General/CEO...
The recent wave of pharmaceutical tragedies in Sri Lanka, as well as some others that have occurred regularly in the past, has exposed a terrifying reality:...
Chairman of the Matugama Pradeshiya Sabha, controlled by the SJB, has been accused of assaulting the Secretary of the same local authority, following a dispute over...
Former Minister Douglas Devananda, who was arrested and remanded in connection with a firearms-related investigation, has been admitted to the Mahara Prison Hospital on medical advice....
‘Can Asians Think?’ I want to initiate this essay with several questions. That is, are we, in Sri Lanka and in our region, intellectually subservient to...
Expo Commodities (Pvt) Ltd, together with its member company STAY Naturals (Pvt) Ltd, has been recognized with Merit Awards at the Sri Lanka Export Development Board...
It is said that no man steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man. These...
