President Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasised that a unified operational mechanism, which goes beyond the normal state administration, is required to...
The government’s failure to act on expert warnings, including advance forecasts on Cyclone Ditwah, had led to the worsening of disaster impact,...
England batted against type and belatedly produced a rearguard, but it was in vain as seamer Michael Neser justified his...
Rescue teams and volunteers have been struggling to assist millions of people affected by floods and landslides in parts of...
Twenty five people have been killed in a fire at a popular nightclub in the coastal region of Goa, India,...
The Landslide Early Warning Center of the National Building Research Organisation [NBRO] has issued landslide early warnings to the districts...
The Situation Report issued by the Disaster Management Center [DMC] at 2000hrs on Saturday [06] confirms that 607 persons have...
Border clashes have erupted again between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban forces, with each sides accusing the other of breaking a...
Advisory for Severe Lightning Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre at 12.15 p.m. 06 December 2025 valid for...
An epic stonewall from Justin Greaves had him face more than half the deliveries of his 12-Test career in this...
The RED Landslide Early Warnings issued by the Landslide Early Warning Center of the National Building Research Organization [NBRO] to...
Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman has been fined 10% of his match fee and docked one demerit point after he was found...
by Dr Nihal D Amerasekera I am writing this as a septuagenarian. Having worked most of my professional life in England my thoughts are coloured by...
by Dr Srilal Fernando Though I was born in Panadura, a small village south of Colombo, my parents moved to a property in Colombo to facilitate...
Back of Beyond is a name synonymous with sustainable eco-tourism and nature-conservation in Sri Lanka. The company was created over 12 years ago by Yohan Weerasuriya...
A Sri Lankan restaurant ‘Mandas’, which serves authentic Sri Lanka food including rice and curry, hoppers and Kottu, was opened in the City Centre of St...
by Malinda Seneviratne Towards the end of the year 2018 in the heady days of the parliamentary crisis there was a slogan bandied about in social...
by C.A.Chandraprema The bane of this country has been ethnicity and religion based politics. It first began among the ‘Ceylon’ Tamils in the north and east...
Tomorrow is Nikini Poya Day Take the letters A and B in the English alphabet. It’s because of A that B exists. If A doesn’t exist,...
The day the general election results are out (6 August, 2020), will coincidentally be exactly one year since the Buddhasasana Karyasadhaka Mandalaya, an organization comprising erudite...
by Zacki Jabbar Kumara Welgama who is contesting this week’s Parliamentary Polls on the SJB ticket, warns that it could be the last since the Rajapaksas...
The 31st Annual General Meeting of the Association of Professional Bankers – Sri Lanka was held on July 24 at the Bougainvillea Ballroom of the Galadari...
JVP-led NPP Kalutara District candidate Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa flanked by NPP’s Colombo District candidate Attorney-at-Law Harshana Nanayakkara and Gampaha District candidate Lanka Rasadari Siriwardena addressing media...
Sri Lanka Association of Vessel Operators (SLAVO), a significant body in the shipping trade felicitated the key stakeholders of the shipping industry at an event held...
