India wants to upgrade the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, signed in 2000 during Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s presidency. Declaring that...
Sri Lanka’s creditors were unlikely to classify the recent USD 2.5 million Treasury fund heist as a technical debt default,...
Three prison guards attached to the Welikada Prison have been arrested by Borella Police following the death of an inmate...
Spanish police have seized what is thought to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the...
Three people have died and a UK national is seriously ill in hospital after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a...
President Donald Trump says the US struck seven Iranian “fast boats” after vowing to help stranded vessels out of the...
There were smiles at last for Mumbai Imdians (MI) on a night that hadn’t looked promising when Nicholas Pooran’s fireworks...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 04 May 2026, valid...
President of the Maldives, Dr Mohamed Muizzu, who is on a State Visit to Sri Lanka at the invitation of...
For years, India’s West Bengal state was the great exception to Narendra Modi’s political advance. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
The top half of the IPL 2026 points table is an utter logjam.Punjab Kings (PBKS), unbeaten through their first seven...
Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine thrived on a slower-than-usual Hyderabad pitch to halt Sunrisers Hyderabad’s five-match winning streak in IPL...
Deputy Defence Minister Maj. Gen. (retired) Aruna Jayasekera recently reviewed the Coast Guard’s Command and Control mechanism, operational coordination, and maritime security preparedness. During a recent...
Defence Secretary, retired Air Vice Marshall Sampath Thuyyakontha, on Saturday (02) asserted that drug traffickers would not be allowed to evade the law under any circumstances.He...
Iran’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Dr. Alireza Delkhosh, recently attended a ceremony at the Fathima Orphanage and Ladies Hostel in Colombo, aimed at supporting orphaned children...
The power cuts are already here. Perhaps, even before the date predicted by the Public Utilities Commision of Sri Lanka (PUCSL. The peak load has gone...
The central part of Africa was privately owned by King Leopold II of Belgium. It was 76 times the size of Belgium, established in 1885, and...
The world’s largest shark and ray conservation conference, Sharks International 2026 (SI2026), is set to commence in Colombo today (04), placing Sri Lanka at the centre...
In a striking symbol of the global energy transition, vast stretches of once-abandoned coal mines in China have been reborn, not as relics of an industrial...
SJB Colombo District MP Dr. Harsha de Silva has submitted a motion to Parliament calling for urgent action to protect the Diyagama Forest, warning that the...
Nations Trust Bank PLC (NTB) has announced that the transfer of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation’s (HSBC) Retail Banking business in Sri Lanka to NTB has...
Amana Takaful Insurance has been recognized as Sri Lanka’s Most Awarded Insurance Company for 2026 by LMD Magazine, marking its third consecutive year of achievement. This...
Building on its 2025 performance, during which the Bank doubled its bottom-line Union Bank has commenced 2026 with strong momentum, reinforcing its trajectory as one of...
At the Best Management Practices Company Awards 2026, Omega Line Ltd secured nine accolades, including the prestigious Overall Silver Award, positioning the company among the highest-performing...
