The NPP government is trying to maintain a balance between continuing demands for releasing north-east land held by the military...
Colombo Chief Magistrate Lahiru de Silva yesterday granted bail to Yoshitha Rajapaksa, second son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, on...
The United States provided details of the 14-point memorandum of understanding it reached with Iran on Wednesday. Neither has released...
Scotland take on West Indies in Leeds at 18:30 local time (17:30 GMT) in Group 2 of the Women’s T20...
Moscow has come under the largest Ukrainian attack since the start of the full-scale war, with close to 200 drones...
Oil prices have dropped following the United States and Iran’s signing of an interim peace agreement, resuming a slide interrupted...
Leaders of the G7 have pledged at a summit in France to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences and increase pressure on...
Ghana’s fans and players celebrated wildly as Caleb Yirenkyi finished a sweeping counterattack with a tap-in goal in the fifth...
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, has announced that a memorandum of understanding with the United States has...
A game that began with the prospect of a chastening defeat for Pakistan at South Africa’s hands did, indeed, end...
Australia gave themselves another significant net run-rate boost by dispatching Bangladesh with ease at Headingley, restricting them to 77 for...
In overcast Headingley conditions, an all-round performance from Shafali Verma, who scored her first fifty at a T20 World Cup,...
by Gnana Moonesinghe The failure of the Tamil ‘liberation’ movement is the failure to understand how the Tamil problem should be reviewed and tackled in today’s...
Sri Lanka’s Control of Pesticides Act No. 33 of 1980 and the National Policy and Action Plan on Prevention of Suicide of 1997 are among the...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma Americans everywhere are celebrating America’s birthday, Independence Day. Americans, especially white Americans, believe that the nation was born on July 4, 1776 of...
by Zanita Careem Raffealla (an internationally recognized photographer) believes art is how you want to see the world. Passionate about art since her school days in...
Remember two weeks ago I wrote of the name given to the malaise people generally feel due to lockdowns and worries caused by the cursed Covid...
by Kumar David Here is my 4th of July special for readers surprised by zesty trends in America. Biden’s economic programme, Bidenomics, is shaping up, but...
The structure has a definite Eastern flavour. Bawa commented, “I just wanted the building to fit into the site. You must run with the site, after...
By Rex Clementine President J.R Jayewardene in July 1981 pardoned underworld kingpin Gonawala Sunil, a convicted rapist. Just a reminder that Presidential pardons were nothing new....
The National Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (NISOH), the authority concerned with ensuring work place safety, recently invited applications for its 2021 Awards. These felicitate...
JO/SLPP accused of foiling previous bid to amend PTA By Shamindra Ferdinando The government has briefed the EU on action taken to address the latter’s...
By Rathindra Kuruwita The Joint Council of Professions Supplementary to Medicine yesterday warned that they too would be compelled to take union action from 06 July...
By Dr UPUL WIJAYAWARDHANA Perhaps, I should have titled this “US Ambassador, please mind your business” as she seems to be the busybody, doing her utmost...
