NATA to be given more powers The Parliamentary Sectoral Oversight Committee on Health, Mass Media and Women’s Empowerment has agreed...
The hunger strike launched by a group of Development Officers demanding their absorption into the teacher service entered its fourth...
Viran Chamuditha’s 94-ball 110 helped Sri Lanka Under 19 chase 262 and keep their hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals...
Sustained heavy gunfire and loud explosions have been heard in Niger near the international airport outside the capital, Niamey. Multiple...
Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education Dr Harini Amarasuriya said that she hoped that the...
Pavan Rathnayake has re-entered Sri Lanka’s T20I squad following his 121 off 115 balls in the third ODI against England....
Australia qualified for the semi-finals of the Under-19 World Cup after beating West Indies by 22 runs in Harare courtesy...
The Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya participated in the official launch of the National Strategic Action Plan to monitor and...
Shiyam Dube hammered the third-fastest fifty by an Indian batter in T20Is, finishing with 65 off 23 balls, but it...
A South Korean court has sentenced former First Lady Kim Keon Hee to one year and eight months in prison...
A plane crash has killed the deputy chief minister of India’s Maharashtra state, Ajit Pawar, the country’s aviation regulator has...
A new circular has been issued by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to provide relief to micro,...
A global pandemic shutting down most economies and resulting in over half a million deaths, would have been dismissed as science fiction and not even science...
by SUSANTHA HEWA Hobson’s customers had to choose the horse closest to the stable door. Yet, they had the option of leaving it- after all, it’s...
By Ifham Nizam Senior officers of the Department of Wildlife Conservation and Forest Department yesterday expressed concern over a directive that they should seek the State...
by Sanath Nanayakkare Anyone conversant with the elements of a political economy would know that Sri Lanka is using its ‘sovereign power’ to manage the different...
Dr. SARATH GAMINI De SILVA The annual patriotic taunts and the laments of the majority are heard as the day of reckoning approaches in Geneva. We...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne CSE produced signs of a rebound yesterday with both indices closing positive, though turnover remained low. Central Bank Governor W.D Lakshman’s recent statement on...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Justice Minister Ali Sabry yesterday said that he had no intention of amending the Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance. The Minister said that a number...
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) commenced operations in August 1950 and completed 70 years of its valued contribution to the prosperity of Sri Lanka....
Sri Lanka and China could cooperate within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, turning the Colombo Port City and the Hambantota Port into two...
Friday 26th February, 2021 The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) that probed the Easter Sunday carnage can easily be bracketed with the PCoI on the Treasury...
by Reemus Fernando Fifteen-year-old Dinethya Dharmarathne turned tables on Oneli Perera and Vonara de Alwis to secure a place in the women’s singles semi-finals of the...
The Central Bank, with deep sorrow, wishes to announce the demise of C J P Siriwardana, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka...
