China and Sri Lanka have intensified joint law enforcement efforts to combat cross-border online gambling and telecom fraud, crimes that...
An assistant manager and a security officer, attached to a state bank branch in Horana, have been arrested in connection...
After a 16-wicket opening day of the English Test summer, a further 17 fell on the second on an up-and-down...
A first ODI win in the West Indies since 2013 and more importantly, a winning start to Gary Kirsten’s tenure...
Anthropic is proposing that the world’s top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of...
Iran’s World Cup football players have been granted visas to enter the United States, according to a White House official,...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasooriya in her Environment Day message said that the environment is the foundation of our livelihood...
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were ordered to shelter in an attached spacecraft after the structure suddenly started...
Qualifier Maja Chwalinska is one win away from a fairytale French Open triumph after setting up a final showdown with...
Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a face-to-face meeting between himself and Vladimir Putin in a renewed bid to end the...
Shreyas Iyer is set to replace Suryakumar Yadav as India’s T20I captain, and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is set for his maiden call-up,...
Pakistan edged home in a low-scoring tussle to secure their third straight ODI series win against Australia. They batted with...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa inspected the Army improvised new Intermediate Care Centre (ICC) cum Hospital with 1,200 beds for Covid-19 patients at Seeduwa on Tuesday. The President...
by Kumar David Though paper money was invented in China during the Song Dynasty in the 11th century it is fast phasing out in consumer transactions;...
ECONOMYNEXT – Vaccination against COVID-19 will help bring the death rate down and minimize severe disease but the jab can take weeks to be fully effective...
(By Desamanya K.H.J. Wijayadasa, former Secretary to the President) Tolerance means sympathetic understanding Tolerance means the ability to live with others who hold different views, and...
by Imesh Ranasinghe ECONOMYNEXT – The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that Maulavi (Islamic preacher) Mohamad Ibrahim Mohamad Naufer masterminded Sri Lanka’s...
REGN-COV2, an antibody drug cocktail for the treatment of coronavirus patients by pharmaceutical giant Roche, has received Emergency Use Authorization and approval in the US, Europe,...
Shammi Silva has been elected Sri Lanka Cricket president again, after he and the majority of the previous set of office bearers were voted in uncontested....
SSP Kamal Pushpakumara will be contesting for the post of President at the upcoming hockey elections with the vision of making Sri Lanka one of the...
One of our finest women dancers, Upeka Chitrasena, has enthralled audiences at home and those across our shores with her brilliance. The queen of dance who...
by Jayadhamma Athukorala My intention in writing this note is to share with others my thoughts on the above question developed through, reading, varied experiences and...
I read this April 21, 2021 article by Joumana Khatib about Jhumpa Lahiri and it set me thinking. The famed author of ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ and...
by Junglewallah The northern forests around Mankulam, situated some 200 miles from Colombo on the main Jaffna road, consist of tall trees and the undergrowth. These...
