Engineers at the Ceylon Electricity Board have drawn a clear red line over the government’s plan to gazette the appointed...
The annual Colombo Navam Maha Perahera, along with an exhibition of sacred relics brought from India, will be held at...
Nihar Parmar produced an excellent all-round display as Japan comfortably defeated Tanzania by nine wickets at Windhoek in the first...
India bundled out New Zealand for a mere 135 in their final Group B fixture of the Under-19 World Cup...
Josh Hoey had said he was excited to take a shot at the world 800m short track record in Boston...
US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 100% tariff on Canadian goods if the country strikes a trade...
Pakistan’s participation at the upcoming Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 has been thrown into uncertainty after the PCB chairman Mohsin...
Joe Root struck his 45th ODI fifty and with it helped England snap an 11-match losing streak away from home,...
A Sri Lankan innings that never really got going eventually parked itself at middling total of 219, as they were...
It is now official: Scotland have replaced Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup 2026 starting in India and Sri Lanka...
At least seven people have died and more than 80 others are missing after a landslide hit Indonesia’s West Java...
Ukraine has condemned a fresh wave of Russian strikes overnight which killed one person and injured 23 others, as talks...
Wednesday 12th May, 2021 There is a lot of brouhaha over the government’s claim that it influenced the World Health Organization (WHO) decision to approve the...
by Sanath Nanayakkare The country’s foreign reserves will be added to, and utilised as and when needed, Dhammika Nanayakkara, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of...
Another suspect arrested, CID looking for three more persons By Shamindra Ferdinando Another person wanted in connection with an ongoing inquiry into the fraudulent withdrawal of...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Sputnik V was a better choice of vaccine as a second jab than Sinopharm for those who had taken AstraZeneca injection as the...
Extracts from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka report, ‘Recent Economic Developments: Highlights of 2020 and Prospects for 2021’ Continued from yesterday Meanwhile, several rounds...
The Association of Medical Specialists (AMS) has urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to impose ‘lockdowns’ at district level with immediate effect to bring the raging Covid-19 pandemic...
The World Bank launched public consultations to update its Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) in Sri Lanka. This online platform will enable the Bank to engage with...
By Shamindra Ferdinando The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) is a constituent of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP)-led coalition. The PHU is represented in the Cabinet...
By Lynn Ockersz The Human caring to look at himself, Draws back in great dread, From the bruised face that presents itself: ‘Is this me, whom...
SLT-MOBITEL, the National ICT and Telecommunications Services Provider, was honored with the ‘Best Telecom Service Provider’ Award at the Global Economics Awards which concluded in London...
by Dr Tilak Siyambalapitiya A policy change in 1995 to allow private investments in electricity generation into the grid, a standard agreement and a standard price for...
BOOK REVIEW: Book: Heritage Histories: A Reassessment of Arumuga Navalar, Author: Ratnajeevan Hoole, Publisher: Thesam Publications, London, 2020. By Charles Sarvan It is beyond my competence...
