BASL condemns Ranjan Jayalal for obstructing lawyer The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday strongly condemned Kaduwela Mayor Ranjan...
Electricity consumers have opposed a government plan to obtain loans from the World Bank to meet the cost of repairs...
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that steps are being taken to abolish the Executive Presidency and establish a parliamentary...
The full speech delivered by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Parliament (2025-12-19) “Today, we have presented to Parliament the largest...
The IMF Executive Board approved emergency financing under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI), providing Sri Lanka with immediate access to...
In response to severe weather impacts, the Sri Lanka Navy conducted a diving and technical assistance operation on Friday (19...
The Landslide Early Warning Centre of the National Building Research Organization (NBRO) has extended the Landslide Early Warning issued to...
The United States military is “striking very seriously against ISIS [ISIL] strongholds in Syria”, President Donald Trump said, a week...
Pakistan marched into the final of the Under 19 Asia Cup with a clinical eight wicket win over Bangladesh in...
Vihaan Malhotra and Aaron George’s patient half-centuries helped India beat Sri Lanka in a rain-reduced game and set up an...
Dasun Shanaka will be Sri Lanka’s T20I captain until the end of the forthcoming T20 World Cup. The move to...
GovPay, Sri Lanka’s Government Digital Payment Platform concluded the year 2025 by surpassing Rs. 2 billion in total digital transaction...
Frank Lee Woodward was born in Norfolk, England, in 1871, the third son of an Anglican clergyman. At school, and later at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,...
The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) of the new Parliament will begin proceedings with effect from October 6, the parliamentary financial watchdog’s chairman, Prof. Charitha Herath...
US President Donald Trump has said he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus and are now self-isolating. Mr Trump, aged 74 and...
Wondering what this brouhaha was about surgeons of the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital, I asked a physician at the hospital what it was all about –...
Making a breakthrough in the study of leptospirosis, a bacterial infection transmitted from animals, a team of Sri Lankan researchers in a collaborative endeavour has discovered...
by C.A.Chandraprema The 20th Amendment has given rise to a debate over whether dual citizens should be allowed to contest elections in this country. The dual...
The then University of Ceylon was a member of the All-India Universities Association from the beginning till about the mid nineteen sixties. As such, the cricket...
With the soaring price of coconuts, the focus is now on doubling production from three billion to six billion per year. A master plan in this...
It is now six years since Sudu Amma passed away, but her memory lives on in my heart and I am sure in many more. Sudu...
by plants launched in Vavuniya Described as a “first in the world”, a new payment based project on oxygen emitted by plants ??was launched ??in Vavuniya...
by Uditha Devapriya “Farren the Wanderer”, written by Sachintha Pilapitiya and published by Neptune Publications, hit the shelves at the Book Fair on September 19 At...
THE 20TH AMENDMENT BILL – By Dr Nihal Jayawickrama The author of the 1978 Constitution has never been officially disclosed. It was included in the report...
