… five senior officials suspended President’s Counsel Maithri Gunaratne has urged the Parliament to intervene in an ongoing investigation conducted...
Colombo Fort Magistrate Isuru Neththikumara has directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to arrest former SriLankan Airlines board member Shasheendra...
Israeli attacks have killed five people in southern Lebanon, including a journalist, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported, further straining...
South Africa completed their highest successful chase in T20Is and sealed the five-match series against India with two matches to...
It wasn’t the high-scoring spectacle that people might have expected, especially with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in the house, but that didn’t...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 22 April 2026, valid...
Iran’s IRGC says it has seized two vessels for “disrupting order and safety in the Strait of Hormuz”, The IRGC...
The importance of establishing learning centers at regional level has been identified in order to achieve multiple objectives, including the...
Approval was granted at the Cabinet Meeting held on 21-10-2025 to carry out a feasibility study and prepare detailed plans...
The Special Import Licence Regulations No. 01 of 2023, published in Extraordinary Gazette No. 2312/77 dated 01-01-2023, prohibit the importation...
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the resolution furnished by the Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs to appoint Iraj...
Approval was granted at the Cabinet Meeting held on 17-05-2021 to implement the recommendations submitted by the Presidential Commission appointed...
By Prof.TISSA VITARANA After the dramatic events of the past few weeks when the American Tiger had to hurriedly depart from Afghanistan, which it had ruled...
State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal says attempts were being made to cause turmoil in a crisis situation created by the Covid-19 epidemic. Responding to recent claims...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Kenyan President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta engaged in a cordial telephone conversation yesterday morning (3). While expressing satisfaction over the growing bilateral relations...
Headline inflation, as measured by the year-on-year (Y-o-Y) change in the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI, 2013=100)1, increased to 6.0 per cent in August 2021 from...
Lions Clubs are to clean fifty identified cities from Colombo to Medawachchiya in one day. This was disclosed by the new governor of Lions District 306B2...
Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris has briefed UN Resident Coordinator Hanaa Singer-Hamdy on Thursday (2) as regards post-war reconciliation measures undertaken by the government. They dealt...
‘The import of motor vehicles had a detrimental effect on the General Insurance sector, which had a negative growth of 1.3 per cent towards Gross Written...
Kumudu Priyanka was not even closer to winning a medal but did well to deliver her personal best in the women’s T47 long jump at the...
The vaccination of those between 20 and 30 years had commenced yesterday, Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said. The Minister said that already a number of people...
Former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, who is currently in remand custody at the Magazine Prison was yesterday detected talking on a cell phone by the Chief Jailer,...
Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa on Tuesday (31) told the Speaker of the Parliament of the People’s Republic of China, Li Zhanshu, that Sri Lanka was ready...
By Dinasena Ratugamage Residents of Jaffna too had started ignoring travel restrictions imposed by the government, a senior police officer said, adding that until 01 September...
