An Assistant Director of the External Resources Department (ERD) of the Ministry of Finance, interdicted pending an investigation into the...
FSP accuses govt. of reducing Sri Lanka to a puppet of India by giving away sensitive data Jana Aragalaya Movement,...
“We called it ‘moon dust’,” Jeffery Camp, a 61-year-old retired military veteran who lives in Sarasota, Florida, says when describing...
The detained former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, the country’s state media has...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya in her May Day message called upon the working people in Sri Lanka to move...
There has been violence outside an Australian hospital where a man suspected of murdering a five-year-old girl was being treated....
Jason Holder was so omnipresent that his involvement in five dismissals enabled the Gujarat Titans (GT) to bowl Royal Challengers...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 30 April 2026, valid...
Harshitha Samarawickrama blasted an unbeaten 49 off just 29 deliveries to set up Sri Lanka’s series-clinching win over Bangladesh in...
The United States declared independence from the British crown 250 years ago – but this week, it could not get...
Oil prices have soared following reports that the US is preparing for an “extended” blockade of Iran. The global benchmark...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 29 April 2026, valid...
(EXCERPTED FROM MERRIL GUNARATNE’S “COP IN THE CROSSFIRE”) At the time the Police Hospital was placed in 1996 under my supervision, it was an appendage of...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma Sri Lanka has been long considered a caste-blind society on the basis that it is a predominantly Buddhist country, and the Buddha himself...
The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced a partnership with DirectPay, one of the fastest-growing fintech start-ups in Sri Lanka, to provide Internet Payment Gateway (IPG)...
by S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole The Perahera in Kandy was permitted even with artistes catching Covid. The Nallur Thiruvilla was banned. Our terrorizing police had parades...
by Upali de Saram Around 3,963 tonnes of edible food is dumped daily in Sri Lanka as waste owing to negligence of people, reveals a survey...
BY SANATH NANAYAKKARE UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday urged the government to extend the lockdown in keeping with the advice of health experts by one...
16th Sujata Jayawardena Memorial Oration The 16th Sujata Jayawardena Memorial Oration will be delivered on Monday, 30th August by Professor Neelika Malavige on the topic “The...
His mother and I went to the same school and as such the two families knew each other well. Then we left school, got married, moved...
by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka In an address to the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Prof Neelika Malavige, member of the WHO-Sri Lanka convened Panel of Experts, disclosed...
I found Karma inexplicable that such an effective Politician was not only taken away prematurely, but we were also denied the right to pay our respects...
by Amal Jayasinghe Colombo (Sri Lanka – AFP) Sri Lanka will issue captive elephants with their own biometric identity cards and ban their keepers from drinking on the...
A group of experts of the Moratuwa University commissioned by the Ministry of Highways have completed a feasibility study for the construction of the planned extension...
