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...
Former Sri Lanka allrounder Shehan Jayasuriya is set to make his USA debut at the 2026 T20 World Cup. The...
Time for the real quiz. As pleasing as it was for Harry Brook and Brendon McCullum to win a rare...
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...
About 4,000 youth in the North and Eastern provinces would be given jobs under the government’s scheme to provide 100,000 jobs to youth from poor families,...
Reality dawns on Trump as Congress certifies Biden’s win US President Donald Trump on Thursday, finally softened his stand of the outcome on the 2020 presidential...
Despite the ongoing pandemic and its challenges, the Aitken Spence team connected virtually with the employees of Aitken Spence across different countries to celebrate the dawn...
The ‘Suraksha’ children’s insurance policy granted by the Ministry of Education to all school going students free of charge has once again been awarded to Sri...
‘The pandemic has now reached a level in which no human can make an optimal decision without the aid of a computer. Therefore, we need to...
Sri Lanka’s most MSME friendly bank HNB PLC, announced the launch of a Rs. 20 million grant fund to support 200 microfinance customers affected by the...
Minister of Public Security, Sarath Weerasekera yesterday said that he would stand by policemen who performed their duty diligently. Weerasekera made the statement addressing SSPs. “A...
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...
