Mounting concerns over drug safety and regulatory oversight have triggered strong calls from medical professionals and trade unions for the...
China has pledged its full support to Sri Lanka’s economic and social recovery efforts in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah,...
The Hydrology and Disaster Management Division of the Department of Irrigation has issued flood warnings for the Mahaweli River Basin...
Volodymyr Zelensky is urging European Union leaders gathered at a crunch summit in Brussels to loan billions of euros in...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will crack down on hate speech following Sunday’s deadly shooting at Bondi...
The Bay of Plenty lived up to its name but only for New Zealand. Devon Conway and Tom Latham harvested...
Australia have not yet officially retained the Ashes, but it already seems a matter of “when” not “if” after England’s...
Winter storms are worsening conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, as aid agencies warn that Israeli...
An official meeting was held between Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC)...
The landslide early warning centre of the National Building Research Organization [NBRO] has issued Level III landslide early warnings to...
Astonishingly, this Ashes series is just seven days old, but it remains in no mood to slow down and take...
Sri Lanka has named a young squad for the forthcoming T20Is against India, bringing in the likes of 17-year-old ambidextrous...
Lessons from Hantana For this, I go back to 1984, when I bought a house at the Hantana housing scheme started by President Premadasa. At the...
By Uditha Devapriya In his travelogue Following the Equator, Mark Twain makes the following intriguing claim: “Tea-tasting is the great business in Ceylon, now. A passenger...
Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena addressing the High-Level Meeting on the 25th Anniversary of the 4th World Conference on Women on Thursday Historically, Sri Lanka had demonstrated its...
India’s Federal Finance Ministry is discussing options for pushing the Indian Rupee as a common currency for trade with South Asian neighbours, New Delhi based NewsRise...
The panel comprising Jagath Liyanarachchi (RTI activist), Karu Jayasuriya (former speaker of parliament), Ashwini Natesan Weerabahu (researcher), Dumindu Madushan, Dulan Dasanayake (Right to Life) Text and...
Morison PLC, the largest oral solid dosage pharmaceutical manufacturer in Sri Lanka and a subsidiary of Hemas Holdings PLC, ceremonially opened their new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant...
Compensation negotiations still on By Ifham Nizam The Maritime Rescue Coordinating Centre (MRCC) yesterday authorised the owners of the crude oil tanker, ‘MT New Diamond’; to...
According to Mr. J.S. Ranasingha, in his article in The Island of 28th Sept the Rubber Industry is on the verge of extinction, with the annual...
MAS Holdings, the largest and leading design-to-delivery apparel solutions provider in South Asia, has renewed its commitment to empower more of its employees by extending its...
Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon told Derana Aluth Parlimenthuwa programme, on Wednesday, that police had been ordered to open fire if those in their custody made sudden...
*EU has been a steady supporter of Sri Lanka since the opening of the EU Delegation in the country in 1995 *Through the GSP+, the EU...
Japanese Ambassador in Colombo Akira Sugiyama recently said that although Sri Lanka had been successful in combating Covid-19 pandemic, the continuing global crisis caused serious difficulty to...
