Harsha rejects what he called frivolous accusations Chairman of Committee on Public Finance (CoPF) Dr. Harsha de Silva dismissed Free...
The number of patients hospitalised due to viral illnesses, including dengue fever, had increased significantly, health officials said yesterday, adding...
Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma bailed India out with bat and ball respectively to fire them to an emphatic opening...
Boualem Khoukhi scored an equalising goal on a header in the fourth minute of stoppage time, and Qatar spoiled a...
Nestory Irankunda and Connor Metcalfe have scored as Australia have spoiled Turkiye’s return to the World Cup for the first...
The New York Knicks won the National Basketball Association championship for the first time in over 50 years, sending the...
Dasun Shanaka produced the batting ballistics, Kamil Mishara held the innings together, and Sri Lanka’s spinners dominated the middle overs,...
Three buses lined up at the City Street Station to ferry a long queue of cricket enthusiasts for the opening...
Vinicius Jr spared Brazil the embarrassment of defeat in an opening World Cup match for the first since 1934 as...
Debutants Harsh Dubey and Gurnoor Brar claimed three wickets each, while Shubman Gill slammed a fluent 66-ball 84 not out...
President Donald Trump has said a deal to end fighting between the US and Iran is scheduled to be signed...
Australia may have come into this Women’s T20 World Cup with doubts over their invincibility after entering a tournament without...
By Sujeeva Nivunhella reporting from London London-based die-hard Lankan patriot, Douglas Wickremaratne passed away last week. He was 83. A product of Ananda College, Colombo, Douglas...
UNP Deputy Leader Ruwan Wijewardene on Friday said that the Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour programme of the government had inflicted catastrophic changes including the consumer...
Sri Lanka has recorded 1.5 percent of negative economic growth rate for the third quarter of 2021, reflecting the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic, the...
Bairaha Farms PLC, the pioneer chicken processor in Sri Lanka for over four decades, shone bright at the FMCG Asia Awards, being honored as the winner...
Leelananda de Silva lent me the copy of Nerve he had been gift-posted by one of the book’s authors with the inscription ‘To Leelananda and Rukmal:...
ECONOMYNEXT – The largest natural corundum ever recorded in Sri Lanka, which could also be the largest in the world, has attracted interest from potential buyers...
Sampath Bank recently unveiled the Sampath RemitWise remittance support mobile application to offer greater support to the countless Sri Lankans living and working abroad. The unique...
Sri Lanka’s potential for ‘eco and science-based marine tourism’, though immense, has still not been properly tapped. To promote this unconventional tourism product, sustainable environmental practices...
by Goolbai Gunasekara Is it not every teacher’s dream to teach a class in which every child is a hard-working student and correspondingly very bright? All...
Governments not infrequently prorogue parliament when they are in trouble. Perhaps the best example of that in Sri Lanka’s contemporary history was President Premadasa’s prorogation of...
Transparency International Sri Lanka launches ApeSalli.lk to report fraud Amid allegations of increasing corruption in the country, Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) has launched an online...
by Sheila de Zoysa The 1958 Annual Finance Ministers’ Conference was coming up. An invitation was sent to our Government inviting the Finance Minister and his...
