Sri Lanka’s environmental protection framework is rapidly eroding, with weak law enforcement, politically driven development and the routine sidelining of...
IGP Priyantha Weerasooriya has issued a letter, warning police officers against presenting gifts to senior officers during festivals or special...
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...
Shafali Verma continued her superb form, cracking a 42-ball 79 as India brushed aside Sri Lanka once again to win...
EC-political parties powwow By Shamindra Ferdinando The Election Commission has requested political parties to submit their annual accounts, changes in respect of office-bearers and amendments to...
The site plays the role of a virtual bank branch by offering intelligent solutions online via a live chat option, Seylan Bank launched the revamped website...
The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Alaina B. Teplitz, says she was deeply disappointed with the appalling incidents in Washington on 6 January. Thousands of angry supporters of...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Over 2,000 people who were in public places of the Western Province, without wearing masks, had been subjected to PCR and rapid antigen...
Controversy over LTTE memorial By Shamindra Ferdinando Education Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday (11) said that monuments of any kind couldn’t be built within university premises...
Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena complemented outgoing High Commissioner of Seychelles in Colombo, Conrad Vincent Mederic, for his outstanding and significant contributions towards enhancing Sri Lanka- Seychelles relations during his tenure, including the...
Accordingly, as the regulator for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) in the country, the FIU imposed penalties amounting to Rs. 2.3 million...
by Hiran H.Senewiratne Trading activities of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) were bullish yesterday where JKH, Browns Investments and Expolanka contributed more than 70 percent or...
By Rienzie Wijetilleke (rienzietwij@gmail.com), and Kusum Wijetilleke (kusumw@gmail.com) There was a period in the late 80s and early 90s when Sri Lanka’s banking sector was beginning...
By Prof Kirthi Tennakone (Email: ktenna@yahoo.co.uk ) Hardly a day passes without the letters, PCR, – the acronym for polymerase chain reaction — being mentioned. To...
Sheru, who was in the spotlight last week, and now performing in the Maldives, where her brother is the Vice President, sent us a note of...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Thirty four more persons were arrested by the Police on Sunday for violating quarantine laws. They had been arrested for not wearing face...
