Environment Minister Dammika Patabedi said yesterday he had ordered an inquiry into the withdrawal of China-based Amber Adventures (Private) Ltd.,...
Balangoda Kassapa Thero, held in Trincomalee remand prison over alleged violations of the Coastal Conservation Act, reportedly refused meals yesterday...
A court in South Korea has sentenced the country’s former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to five years in jail after...
West Indies kickstarted their campaign at the 2026 Men’s U19 World Cup with a drubbing of Tanzania for the first...
Five-time champions India began their 2026 Men’s Under-19 World Cup campaign with a six wicket win (via DLS) over United...
A fired-up UP Warriorz (UPW) side breathed some life into their WPL 2026 campaign by earning their first points of...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has removed Nazmul Islam as chairman of the board’s finance committee, following the CWAB’s player boycott...
A crane collapse has killed two people on the outskirts of Thailand’s capital Bangkok, one day after a falling crane...
India has shut down a medical college in Indian-administered Kashmir in an apparent capitulation to protests by right-wing Hindu groups...
Singapore’s Leader of the Opposition in parliament, Pritam Singh, has been stripped of his title by the prime minister following...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has issued a show cause notice to its director M Nazmul Islam over his “objectionable comments”...
Sadio Mane fired Senegal into the final of the Africa Cup of Nations with a 1-0 victory over seven-time winners...
by Rex Clementine Sir Don Bradman called him the ‘greatest cricketing being to have ever walked the earth,’ and in Sri Lanka, he is considered as...
Death of MP’s underage worker By Norman Palihawadana Police investigating the death of 16-year-old Ishalini, a domestic worker at SJB MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s Baudhaloka Mawatha...
Senior official’s wife’s position disputed by Rathindra Kuruwita Out of the 2,930 specialist doctors in the country, 24.7% (726) were to be transferred in January...
SJB MP Patali Champika Ranawaka last week presented a private member’s bill to Parliament aimed at codifying a contempt of court law for the country. The...
SLT-MOBITEL, the National ICT, Telecommunications and Mobile Services Provider supported this year’s annual Ruhunu Kataragama Maha Perahera which took place on 23rd July 2021, in line...
The Anamaduwa Police yesterday took into custody a monk for allegedly assaulting a nurse who was obtaining a swab sample from him at the Base Hospital...
Mr. Rajamahendran, known to some as ‘Kili’ or ‘RR’, but will forever be ‘Sir’ to me, has made contributions to our country and society that are...
By R.N.A. de Silva “Which subject did you have most difficulties with, having switched the medium of instruction from Sinhala to English?” I posed this...
Authorities turning blind eye to mechanised gem mining By Rathindra Kuruwita Some powerful businessmen in Ratnapura were engaged in unauthorised mechanised gem mining with the...
Sri Lanka has proposed holding the BIMSTEC summit in early December. This will be the fifth such summit of the grouping. Sri Lanka is the currently...
By Hiran H. Senewiratne In a situation where the country is short of foreign reserves, the tea industry will likely contribute US$ 200 million extra revenue...
DFCC Bank, one of the island’s fastest growing premier commercial banks, has come forward with the ‘DFCC Leasing Flash Promo’, a 24 hour online leasing promotion...
