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...
Text and Pix by Dinasena Rathugamage State officials in Mannar Manthai staged a protest opposite of Manthai West Divisional Secretariat against the killing of Mannar Manthai...
‘… second wave caused serious threat to people’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Expressing serious concern over the delay in initiating a criminal investigation into the sudden eruption...
What a great nation we are! We have a Cabinet Minister – the one in charge of health – offering to sacrifice herself to the sea,...
By Ifham Nizam Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has instructed the Puttalam Police to take action against those who have destroyed the mangrove at Pulidiwal in Mundalama....
When the first wave of the Covid-19 receded, people started to make up for the lost time and have been caught in the second wave. People...
JVP fires first shot over likely university selection dispute this year By Saman Indrajith Thousands of students who had sat the 2019 GCE Advanced Level examination...
Professor Jayantha Lal Ratnasekera has been re-appointed the Vice Chancellor of Uva Wellassa University by the President, for a period of three years with immediate effect....
The world still has an opportunity to reverse the harmful impacts of climate change- and big businesses are crucial to the fight. Businesses contribute 70% of...
A brief account of US foreign policy By Uditha Devapriya Jenny Pearce titled her book on US intervention in Central America and the Caribbean “Under the...
Saturday 7th November, 2020 Unusual delays in vote counting have a corrosive effect on the credibility of the outcome of an election. The US was still...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Education Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday (6) paid a glowing tribute to all those who had made it possible for the successful conclusion...
Vision Care, Sri Lanka’s pioneering eye care service provider, donated a cold centrifuge to the Medical Research Institute to contribute towards Sri Lanka’s battle against the...
