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...
By Rajitha Ratwatte fromoutsidethepearl@gmail.com We had three concurrent test matches last week. Six countries and their elite cricketers on display. How the matches played out and...
by Sanath Nanayakkare The recent downgrading of Bank of Ceylon’s foreign debt rating had affected none of the bank’s customers who obtained Letters of Credit (LCs)...
Dhammika Prasad was probably a name that was fading in the local cricket circuit, but after a number of injuries to the Sri Lankan fast bowling...
by Sanath Nanayakkare The Bank of Ceylon (BOC) successfully weathered the ferocious pandemic year of 2020 while doing its duty towards the nation at an unprecedented...
By Saman Indrajith Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told Parliament yesterday that no decision had been made to hand over the East Container Terminal (ECT) of the...
The whole world is almost at a standstill due to the Coronavirus pandemic. However, cricket fans do have something to shout about – with India playing...
Once again, for the eighth consecutive year, Ceylinco Insurance PLC, the holding company of insurance giants – Ceylinco General Insurance and Ceylinco Life Insurance – was...
Microsoft held a free digital-only event for business executives and government officials in Sri Lanka to share how the Microsoft Partner Network has helped businesses adjust...
Constitutional proposals The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has, in its constitutional proposals, submitted to the Expert Committee to Draft a New Constitution, called for the setting...
By Saman Indrajith Chief Government Whip and Highways Minister Johnston Fernando called Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa ‘mad man’ (pissek) in Parliament and then withdrew the comment....
FM receives assurance from Kiev as regards agricultural waste By Shamindra Ferdinando Sri Lanka is still struggling to complete the re-exportation of 263 containers of hazardous...
At a party leaders meeting, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had commented on the failure of Ministers to visit the areas affected by the invasion of the “army”...
