President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, issuing a New Year message, extend his heartfelt wishes to all Sri Lankans for a peaceful...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasooriya in her New Year message requested every Sri Lankan to resolve, with renewed determination to...
United States President Donald Trump’s planned naval blockade of Iran would further cripple international shipping, exacerbating the energy crisis roiling...
Vidarbha’s Praful Hinge, 24, etched his name into the IPL record books on debut, striking three times in his very...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 13 April 2026, valid...
The toss is crucial in night matches at Wankhede Stadium with a true flat pitch and dew giving the chasing...
Prasidh Krishna is beginning to make a mark at IPL 2026. Three nights after his clever slower bouncer to David...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 12 April 2026, valid...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
The Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) TAIMUR and ASLAT arrived at the Port of Colombo on a goodwill visit on 12...
Sanju Samson’s first century for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) set up the team’s first win in IPL 2026 and their...
A felicitation ceremony to mark the South Asian Games Taekwondo achievements was held at the Grand Monarch Hotel with the participation of Santhush Woonjin JEONG, Ambassador...
by Norman Palihawadana The CID has begun interrogating five persons linked to the three importers of contaminated coconut oil in a bid to get to the...
After the successful first manned space flight by Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961, earning the title of ‘First Cosmonaut’, he visited Sri Lanka (then Ceylon)...
ECONOMYNEXT – Non-medical cotton buds and lunch sheets less than 20 microns thin are among five types of single-use plastic and polythene related products have been...
SARATH AMUNUGAMA: The Lion’s Roar: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Making of Modern Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. ix + 556. Sarath Amunugama’s The Lion’s...
by Steve A. Morrell Brokers reported last week that the drop in tea prices was bad news for the industry, which was doing reasonably well in...
The Council for Business with Britain (CBB) is now a member of the British Chambers of Commerce and marked this collaboration with an open networking event....
One of my favourite Archie (from the comic strip) stories has Archie Andrews trying to land a job in the summer holidays. He finds one selling...
“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel...
The parents of a five-year-old boy who was left behind on a Coober Pedy school bus last week say better procedures are needed to safeguard against...
By Ifham Nizam A critically endangered new species of geckos (Cnemaspis lokugei) was discovered from Haputale and Idalgashinna areas in Sri Lanka’s central highlands. This was...
Extract of article published under the title ‘The Lambent Lad from Ganemulla’ in the FB blog of Menaka Ashi Fernando https://aviadoradeceilan.medium.com/the-lambent-lad-from-ganemulla-407e06a1e3b6 The year was 2008, and...
