The ongoing West Asia war, triggered by joint Israel-US attack on Iran on 28 Februar, has benefited the China-run Hambantota...
A three-day “study visit” by the subject Minister to the Norochcholai coal power plant has triggered concern among power sector...
United States President Donald Trump has threatened to attack civilian infrastructure inside Iran, including bridges and power plants, if the...
Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru [RCB] razed Chennai Super Kings’ [CSK] attack and the record books, in front of their...
Mohammed Shami’s miserly 2 for 9 and Rishabh Pant’s uncharacteristic half-century helped Lucknow Super Giants [LSG] open their account in...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 05 April 2026, valid...
Sameer Rizvi picked up his second Player-of-the-Match award in as many games in IPL 2026, this time scoring 90 off...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 04 April 2026, valid...
Iran has executed two men convicted of being members of the banned People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) opposition group,...
An earthquake in Afghanistan has killed eight members of the same family when their home collapsed in the Gosfand Dara...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s prosperity index which tracks parameters going beyond output including employment, wages and infrastructure had seen a fall in 2019, the central bank...
The controversy over the Gazette notification issued in April 2020 under the hand of the Director-General of Health Services mandating the disposal of all Covid-19 affected...
Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, enhances Sri Lanka’s best mobile postpaid plan, Dialog Power Plan, with 100% Anytime Data up to 50GB, going...
I present to my readers this first article of Nan’s for 2021 with affectionate good wishes for a much better year than 2020. I well remember...
Each existing EB Creasy share to be split into 100 Three companies listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange have announced decisions to subdivide their existing issued...
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN, Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI: India and China are in consultations to hold the ninth round of Corps Commander-level talks to discuss...
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) issued an ‘uncirculated’ commemorative coin in the denomination of 20 rupees to mark its 70th anniversary. The CBSL, which...
by David Jansze Here I am on the ocean liner THE PACIFIC SKY in the Coral Sea on a pre-Christmas voyage from Sydney to New Caledonia. ...
by Sanjeewa Jayaweera It is precisely half a century ago that our family arrived in Moscow, the capital of the then Soviet Union (USSR). Since the...
Asked by a journalist about a death in a government hospital many decades ago, the then Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Health laconically replied: “People...
Can you spread COVID-19 after vaccination? Here’s what we know by Kate Baggaley December 28, 2020 On December 18, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted...
Enjoy ginger, but it’s not a ‘cure’ for COVID-19, says WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that while natural remedies such as ginger can...
