Proposed education reforms have drawn sharp criticism from education professionals, teacher unions and student organisations, who warned on Thursday that...
Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa on Friday told Parliament that the Buddhism textbook contained a “serious error,” citing the...
Rescue workers are racing to find dozens of people still missing following a landslide at a landfill site in the...
US President Donald Trump has asked for at least $100bn (£75bn) in oil industry spending for Venezuela, but received a...
The US and its partner forces have carried out large-scale strikes against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Syria, the...
Georgia Wareham towered over the rest with an impressive all-round show to lead Gujarat Giants to an impressive opening match...
After a nail-biter slipped through their hands in the last over of the opening night of WPL 2026, defending champions...
That Sri Lanka is experiencing an especially nasty north-east monsoon over the past several months is clear. It washed out...
Warning for depression to the East of Sri Lanka Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre, Department of Meteorology ...
It isn’t often that India get a 22-day break from international cricket. Rarer still for the most commercially lucrative team...
Nadine de Klerk’s sensational late onslaught, eerily reminiscent of the heist that turned the tables on India at the 2025...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called anti-government protesters “troublemakers” and “a bunch of vandals” just trying “to please...
Israel’s military struck the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus and government forces in southern Syria on Wednesday, as deadly sectarian fighting in the mostly Druze province...
A representative team of TikTok platform in Sri Lanka visited the secretary to the Prime Minister on Wednesday (16) at the Prime Minister’s office focusing on ...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 17 JULY 2025 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 17 July 2025 by the Department of Meteorology Showers will occur at times in the...
The owner of the Hambantota-based ‘Bird Park’, Ajith Gallage, has gone missing amid a major police investigation into the concealment of a stock of illegally imported...
The first ever wax museum of Sri Lanka, housed in the Ehelepola Walawwa, on Raja Veediya, Kandy, will be opened today (17) by President Anura Kumara...
Sri Lanka has received the entire requirement of fabric for school uniforms for 2025 from China. This was announced at an event held at the Education...
A commemorative event was held in Bondy, a suburb of Paris, on 12 July 2025 to mark the foundation stone-laying ceremony for a statue of Dr....
For centuries, green tea has been cherished for its delicate flavours and health benefits. But now, a quiet revolution is brewing—literally. Across Japan, China, and even...
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat in the winner-takes-all third and final Twenty20 International against Bangladesh at R. Premadasa Stadium on Wednesday, ringing...
In a call to action for solar cooperation across Asia and the Pacific, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya said the 21st century must be...
Judicial Medical Officer Dr. Pranavan Sellaiya informed the Jaffna Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday (15) that the next phase of excavations at the Chemmani-Siththupattu cemetery mass grave...
Thursday 17th July, 2025 The Court of Appeal (CA) has dismissed a petition, in limine, which sought an injunction to prevent Western Province Local Government Commissioner...
