Speaker Dr Jagath Wickramaratne yesterday (09) delivered a ruling under Standing Order 27(3), declaring out of order a motion submitted...
A two-year-old elephant calf was killed in a collision with a truck on the Anuradhapura–Padeniya road in the Galgamuwa Mee...
Nadine de Klerk’s sensational late onslaught, eerily reminiscent of the heist that turned the tables on India at the 2025...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called anti-government protesters “troublemakers” and “a bunch of vandals” just trying “to please...
Warning for deep depression to the East of Sri Lanka. Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre of the...
The second T20I between Sri Lanka and Pakistan which was to be played at Dambulla was abandoned without a ball...
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has told the BBC that he believes there is now a “real threat” of US military...
The landslide early warning center of the National Building Research Organisation [NBRO] has issued RED warnings to the districts of...
In its fourth season, the WPL now feels part of the system, shaping careers and standards in increasingly visible ways....
Huge crowds of protesters have been marching through Iran’s capital and other cities, videos show, in what is said to...
As Sri Lanka arrive on the doorstep of another World Cup, there is the usual attendant instability. The captain has...
Nasa has said it will return a four-person crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), cutting short their mission a...
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The President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, at a recent meeting, highlighted the need to shift towards organic fertilizers (OF) and decrease the usage of chemical/inorganic...
Sheru, who hails from the Maldives, and who is in the Maldives, at the moment, says that she misses Sri Lanka, and the music scene, in...
Microsoft will be the official technology partner for the upcoming Sri Lanka Investment Forum 2021 and Microsoft Teams will become the platform of choice to host...
Actress Piumi Hansamali, make-up artist Chandimal Jayasinghe and others at the Colombo Magistrate court yesterday after being enlarged on bail for the offence of violating quarantine...
The results of the latest LMD-NielsenIQ Business Confidence Index (BCI) survey – which was carried out in the first week of May – paints a gloomy...
By M M Zuhair Twelve years since the end, in May 2009, of the 30-year war on separatist terrorism and two years following the April...
Tuesday 1st June, 2021 No society is short of vulturine elements that profit from human suffering, as we have seen during disaster situations across the world....
By Norman Palihawadane The Terrorism Investigation Division has arrested a registrar of marriages in the Oluvil area for allegedly having aided and abetted Easter Sunday suicide...
(This is a response by a group of Sri Lankan university teachers to the audit report Propensity to tend education under the Arts stream and the...
By Dinasena Rathugamage The Navy repaired and restored the service of a barge belonging to the Road Development Authority. Previously used for transporting people and goods...
Lankan High Commissioner to the UK Saroja Sirisena (left) and Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to the...
By Dr. Sarath Gamini De Silva I have been critical of the questionable activities of the GMOA hierarchy for quite some time. (See my article “Open...
