United States President Donald Trump has agreed to suspend his planned bombing of Iran for two weeks, following his threat...
… announces temporary relief package President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday acknowledged in Parliament that the import of substandard coal had...
Excerpted from the memoirs of Rtd. Senior DIG Edward Gunawardena It was in early 1962 when I was the ASP Gampaha that the historic attempted coup...
Excerpted from SIGIRIYA PAINTINGS by Raja de Silva , Retired Commissioner of Archaeology On the morning of October 15, 1967, the Archaeology Commissionner, Dr. CE Godakumbure,...
Ven Agga Maha Panditha Madihe Pannaseeha’s stance for the development of a country economically, socially, culturally and righteously was that it should be alongside the moral...
Sri Lanka is looking to purchase the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 directly from AstraZeneca Plc to meet the country’s vaccine demand, the State Pharmaceutical Corporation...
Valley of death in Passara, Vicious circle in Geneva: by Rajan Philips Passara was a tragedy caught live on camera. Geneva is where Sri Lanka’s postwar...
By Ifham Nizam Rathna Ella, the 14th highest waterfall in Sri Lanka, has been developed as an eco-tourism venture by the National Ethnic Unity Foundation (NEUF)...
Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, who met PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, visited the Hambantota International Port (HIP) during his visit to Sri Lanka last week. During discussions...
Labour Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has accused the plantation industry of attempting to sabotage the 1,000 rupees a day wage award by resorting to court...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma Ten people, including a police officer, were killed in yet another mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, last Monday, less...
This article responds to Air Vice Marshall (retired) Sosa’s article titled, ‘How did the pearl of the Orient miss the bus?’ which appeared in the Sunday...
by Malinda Seneviratne Few countries can boast of anything close to the track record of Britain when it comes to gross human rights violations. Genocide and...
THE LAWS’ DELAYS “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise”, “it is better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool, than...