President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has instructed officials to give top priority to restoring the livelihoods of communities affected by the...
The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) reported yesterday that 211 people had gone missing following the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah....
New South Wales Police say that nine people were killed in a shooting at Bondi Beach Hanukkah event was being...
The Landslide Early Warning Center of the National Building Research Organisation [NBRO] has issued landslide early warnings to the Districts...
Police and school officials in the United States are asking residents of Providence, Rhode Island, to shelter in place after...
A member of England’s security staff was involved in an altercation with a Channel Seven camera operator at Brisbane airport....
A five wicket haul by Sethmika Seneviratne helped Sri Lanka under 19s register an 8 wicket win over Nepal in ...
Advisory for Severe Lightning Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre at 12.30 p.m. 13 December 2025 valid for...
Based on the prevailing disaster situation and the upcoming festive season, arrangements have been made to provide a nutrition allowance...
The Situation Report released by the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) at 6:00 AM today (13th December 2025) confirms that 640...
Vaibhav Suryavanshi slammed a blistering 95 ball 171 in the Under 19 Asia Cup opener against UAE on Friday. He...
If India defied losing the toss and getting the worst of the conditions, theoretically, in Cuttack, South Africa did the...
I am glad that G.A.D Sirimal has replied to my letter. He is au fait with the CEB affairs. I am just a consumer of electricity...
Clashes among Mahara prisoners caused deaths? *SJB points out AG faulted IGP over Mahara riot By Shamindra Ferdinando Investigations into the Mahara prison riot that...
Text and Pix by Dinasena Rathugamage Officials of the Kilinochchi Disaster Management Centre and Divisional Secretariat commenced evacuating around 380 persons from Walluwar Farm and Navalar...
By George Braine I have previously written about my great, great grandfather Charles Joseph Braine (1814-1890), who became a coffee and tea planter in Ceylon. Charles...
By Uditha Devapriya Champika Ranawaka Ignazio Silone is reported to have told Palmiro Togliatti, the Italian Communist Party leader, that “the final struggle will be between...
The Government of Japan has provided a total sum of US$ 636,262 (approx. Rs. 115 million) to the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) for humanitarian demining activities...
Taking a cue from the success of the smallholder sector, Sri Lanka’s Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) handed over fresh proposals aimed at radically increasing worker earnings...
By Dr. Prasanna Cooray Mr. Ariyasena Ashuboda (or Arisen Ahubudu (AA), as he was popularly known) was our Sinhala teacher at S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia....
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Unfolding events make me wonder whether it is the Constitution that would ultimately save Buddhism in Sri Lanka. I am not...
Hundreds of people gathered yesterday outside the Kegalle residence of Dhammika Bandara, the producer of Dhammika peniya which is being touted as a cure for COVID-19,...
Saturday 26th December, 2020 The Opposition keeps accusing the government of having issued liquor manufacturing licences to four of its cronies. This land like no other...
Last week a barasingha [swamp deer] strayed into a field in Panchkula. She ate a ball of wheat, only to find it was a homemade bomb [commonly...
