China and Sri Lanka have intensified joint law enforcement efforts to combat cross-border online gambling and telecom fraud, crimes that...
An assistant manager and a security officer, attached to a state bank branch in Horana, have been arrested in connection...
After a 16-wicket opening day of the English Test summer, a further 17 fell on the second on an up-and-down...
A first ODI win in the West Indies since 2013 and more importantly, a winning start to Gary Kirsten’s tenure...
Anthropic is proposing that the world’s top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of...
Iran’s World Cup football players have been granted visas to enter the United States, according to a White House official,...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasooriya in her Environment Day message said that the environment is the foundation of our livelihood...
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were ordered to shelter in an attached spacecraft after the structure suddenly started...
Qualifier Maja Chwalinska is one win away from a fairytale French Open triumph after setting up a final showdown with...
Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a face-to-face meeting between himself and Vladimir Putin in a renewed bid to end the...
Shreyas Iyer is set to replace Suryakumar Yadav as India’s T20I captain, and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is set for his maiden call-up,...
Pakistan edged home in a low-scoring tussle to secure their third straight ODI series win against Australia. They batted with...
Despite the ongoing pandemic and its challenges, the Aitken Spence team connected virtually with the employees of Aitken Spence across different countries to celebrate the dawn...
The ‘Suraksha’ children’s insurance policy granted by the Ministry of Education to all school going students free of charge has once again been awarded to Sri...
‘The pandemic has now reached a level in which no human can make an optimal decision without the aid of a computer. Therefore, we need to...
Sri Lanka’s most MSME friendly bank HNB PLC, announced the launch of a Rs. 20 million grant fund to support 200 microfinance customers affected by the...
Minister of Public Security, Sarath Weerasekera yesterday said that he would stand by policemen who performed their duty diligently. Weerasekera made the statement addressing SSPs. “A...
By Rajitha Ratwatte fromoutsidethepearl@gmail.com We had three concurrent test matches last week. Six countries and their elite cricketers on display. How the matches played out and...
by Sanath Nanayakkare The recent downgrading of Bank of Ceylon’s foreign debt rating had affected none of the bank’s customers who obtained Letters of Credit (LCs)...
Dhammika Prasad was probably a name that was fading in the local cricket circuit, but after a number of injuries to the Sri Lankan fast bowling...
by Sanath Nanayakkare The Bank of Ceylon (BOC) successfully weathered the ferocious pandemic year of 2020 while doing its duty towards the nation at an unprecedented...
By Saman Indrajith Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told Parliament yesterday that no decision had been made to hand over the East Container Terminal (ECT) of the...
The whole world is almost at a standstill due to the Coronavirus pandemic. However, cricket fans do have something to shout about – with India playing...
Once again, for the eighth consecutive year, Ceylinco Insurance PLC, the holding company of insurance giants – Ceylinco General Insurance and Ceylinco Life Insurance – was...
