India wants to upgrade the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, signed in 2000 during Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s presidency. Declaring that...
Sri Lanka’s creditors were unlikely to classify the recent USD 2.5 million Treasury fund heist as a technical debt default,...
Three prison guards attached to the Welikada Prison have been arrested by Borella Police following the death of an inmate...
Spanish police have seized what is thought to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the...
Three people have died and a UK national is seriously ill in hospital after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a...
President Donald Trump says the US struck seven Iranian “fast boats” after vowing to help stranded vessels out of the...
There were smiles at last for Mumbai Imdians (MI) on a night that hadn’t looked promising when Nicholas Pooran’s fireworks...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 04 May 2026, valid...
President of the Maldives, Dr Mohamed Muizzu, who is on a State Visit to Sri Lanka at the invitation of...
For years, India’s West Bengal state was the great exception to Narendra Modi’s political advance. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
The top half of the IPL 2026 points table is an utter logjam.Punjab Kings (PBKS), unbeaten through their first seven...
Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine thrived on a slower-than-usual Hyderabad pitch to halt Sunrisers Hyderabad’s five-match winning streak in IPL...
By Ifham Nizam The Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) yesterday (6) filed a case against the Araliya Hotel, Unawatuna in the Court of Appeal. Attorney-at-Law Ravindranath...
The Asgiriya Anti-Climax by Aravinthan Arunthavanathan The picturesque Kandy has been home to many key moments in Sri Lanka-Australia rivalry. While Asgiriya played host to Sri...
Photographed left to right: Sanka Dineth, Bhathiya Jayakody, Santhush Weeraman, Umariya Sinhawansa, Tharani Anoja Gamage – Director, State Ministry of Cultural Affiars, Rosy Senanayaka – mayoress...
The upcoming ‘Avurudu’ season will bring good fortune every day to recipients of remittances via the Commercial Bank of Ceylon, with the launch of the Bank’s...
BY Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan (Germany) Epigraph. The Buddha urged that we take power – not over others but over ourselves: greater than conquering others is the...
By Saman Indrajith Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena yesterday called for a two-day parliamentary debate on the issues pertaining to the misappropriation of monies of the Mahapola...
A dinner meeting was held by the Sri Lanka-Korea Business Council of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce recently at Waters Edge. The Guest Speaker was State Minister...
The island’s most popular and novel PRAWN-themed restaurant, ISSO, celebrated its 5th anniversary onMarch 23. ISSO began operations in 2016, in a small outlet down Sulaiman...
Softlogic Research, in its most recent publication took a very strong stance on the Material sector, predicting a strong growth backed by an economic recovery and...
Renowned Japanese scriptwriter Sugako Hashida, best known for the internationally popular TV drama series “Oshin,” has died of lymphoma. She was 95. Hashida had been treated...
Remedial measures promised By Saman Indrajith Justice Minister Ali Sabry told Parliament yesterday that the process of removing Mohan Peiris from the post of Chief Justice...
By Emeritus Professor Upali Samarajeewa (smrjee@gmail.com) The media is full of information about the dangers of aflatoxins, increasing fear in the minds of public. Exposure to...
