Coal power generation falls by 27 GWh A sharp decline in coal-fired electricity generation in April 2026, compared to the...
Asith Siriwardena Counsel for former Director of State Intelligence Service, Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay, detained under the Prevention of...
AUSTRALIA For the first time since 2017, Australia do not have global silverware to defend, with last year’s ODI World...
Tamim Iqbal has been elected as the new BCB president following the elections held in Dhaka on Sunday. Tamim was...
With no play possible in the second ODI, both teams go into the third game well-rested. Perhaps this is a...
More than a million people lined the streets of Madrid on Sunday as Pope Leo XIV held an open-air mass...
South Africa successfully defended 136 in an 18-over game against Ireland in the Women’s T20 World Cup warm-up fixture in...
In the 11th over, KL Rahul edged a cut to the keeper off Ziaur Ahmed when he was on 16....
West Indies won the toss and put Sri Lanka into bat, but that was the extent of the action from...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 07 JUNE 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 07 June 2026 by the Department of Meteorology Showers...
Sunday marks 100 days into the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran. But as fighting and...
West Indies won the toss and put Sri Lanka into bat in what is a must-win second ODI in Jamaica...
SARATH AMUNUGAMA: The Lion’s Roar: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Making of Modern Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. ix + 556. Sarath Amunugama’s The Lion’s...
by Steve A. Morrell Brokers reported last week that the drop in tea prices was bad news for the industry, which was doing reasonably well in...
The Council for Business with Britain (CBB) is now a member of the British Chambers of Commerce and marked this collaboration with an open networking event....
One of my favourite Archie (from the comic strip) stories has Archie Andrews trying to land a job in the summer holidays. He finds one selling...
“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel...
The parents of a five-year-old boy who was left behind on a Coober Pedy school bus last week say better procedures are needed to safeguard against...
By Ifham Nizam A critically endangered new species of geckos (Cnemaspis lokugei) was discovered from Haputale and Idalgashinna areas in Sri Lanka’s central highlands. This was...
Extract of article published under the title ‘The Lambent Lad from Ganemulla’ in the FB blog of Menaka Ashi Fernando https://aviadoradeceilan.medium.com/the-lambent-lad-from-ganemulla-407e06a1e3b6 The year was 2008, and...
By Ifham Nizam Protecting nature is one of the most immediate, powerful and cost-effective solutions to the climate crisis. Nature provides people with food, water, clean...
by Sanjeewa Jayaweera In the last month or so, the government’s attention and the public have been on Geneva, the purported sugar scam, illegal deforestation, and...
by Jayantha Perera The chief of Wannila eththo (Veddas or forest dwellers) and the Center for Environmental Justice filed a petition recently in the Appeal Court...
Tropicoir Lanka (Pvt) Ltd launched a pilot project to protect the Diyawanna lakeshore using coconut fibre-based erosion control products with the Sri Lanka Land Development Corporation...
