Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda said that he is still waiting for the government’s response to the UK sanctions...
Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Shobini Gunasekera recently presented a conceptual framework of seven key vectors that defined contemporary...
After three one-sided, low-scoring encounters, the fourth T20I between India and Sri Lanka exploded into a run-fest in Thiruvananthapuram, with...
Polls have opened in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically...
Family sources have confirmed that the interment of singer Latha Walpola will be performed at the General Cemetery Borella on...
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been jailed for 15 years for abuse of power and money laundering, in...
New York has woken up to its heaviest snowfall in nearly four years after a winter storm blanketed parts of...
Thousands of flights have been cancelled and delayed in the United States due to winter storm Devin, airline monitoring website...
Thailand and Cambodia said they have signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of fierce fighting along their border that...
Sri Lankan singer Latha Walpola has passed away today (27) at the age of 92.
All the three games in this series have followed a similar pattern so far. India have won three tosses –...
For the first time in 19 matches, and nearly 15 years, England’s men experienced a Test victory in Australia as...
By DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA Attorney-at-Law Alisdair Pal of Reuters says of the recent UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka, “the resolution allows the U.N. to “collect, consolidate, analyze...
By Dinasena Ratugamage The government had not only reduced the security given to him, but also released suspects arrested in connection with threats to his life,...
Rex Clementine at Pallekele Twenty years ago, Test matches against Bangladesh were a cakewalk for Sri Lanka. There was a game at SSC where Marvan Atapattu...
by Sanath Nanayakkare As a large number of investors in the stock market at the moment are local rupee investors rather than others, the exchange rate...
The Big Matches between popular schools in Colombo and main outstation cities are round the corner. In the past school sports was in the hands of...
I have written about this amusingly thought-provoking creature, the ‘post turtle’ to ‘The Island’ around three years ago (appeared in the opinion column of The...
Conservation Outlook Assessment: Significant Concern By Professor Emeritus Nimal Gunatilleke Continued from Yesterday Water diverted from Ampanagala reservoir to Muruthawela will be used to meet...
Irregularities, lapses, corruption erode public finance By Shamindra Ferdinando The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) has summoned the Inland Revenue Department tomorrow (23) for an inquiry...
As the Biden administration makes its initial moves to extricate the US’ remaining security forces personnel from Afghanistan, it would do well to ponder on former...
HNB PLC once again joined the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) to promote the ‘Rata Purama LANKAQR’ campaign to raise awareness and encourage the public...
India has reiterated her support for Sri Lanka’s fight against terrorism. The assurance was made on the second anniversary of 2019 Easter Sunday attacks. The following...
by Rex Clementine While the Test series involving Sri Lanka and Bangladesh is on at Pallekele in a bio-secure bubble, the media has been allowed to...
