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,...
The humorous cynical piece under ‘Light Refraction’ by Lucian Rajakarunanayake, states, “The Chairman of Litro Gas Lanka. Thesara Jayasinghe, is certainly a big power – mighty...
Rex Clementine at Pallekele Having been given a fresh life in white ball cricket, former captain Dinesh Chandimal grabbed the opportunity with both hands posting a...
Reaffirms ADB’s support to Sri Lanka’s long-term development agenda Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President Shixin Chen who was in Sri Lanka on a 6-day visit, has...
“God almighty has started to expose those responsible” By Norman Palihawadane His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith on Friday said that it was now clearly evident that...
By Sujeewa Nivunhella in London Triggering off a media frenzy on growing furor over allegations Prince Andrew sexually abused a teenage girl supplied to him by...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka needs a corrective economic package to put the economy on a stable path top economist WA Wijewardena said as foreign exchange shortages...
by Zanita Careem An epitome of courage and wisdom, she is one of the top entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka, founder of Sri Lanka’s most stylish department...
by Kumar David An apocryphal youth inquired from the President “why a referendum couldn’t be conducted to ascertain whether the electorate (would approve) extending his term...
A University of Buckingham professor, whose theory that comets carry the bacteria of life is now becoming part of mainstream science, has been awarded an MBE...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) on Friday warned that looming economic crisis could impact rule of law and democracy and called on government to...
By Sirimantha Ratnasekera JVP last week called on people, civil society and religious organisations to line up with them to defeat what it termed as India’s...
by Goolbai Gunasekara Principals in the early years of the 20th century commanded a kind of respect that was almost adulatory. And why did they do...
