Anuradhapura Chief Magistrate, Siyapath Sasindu Wickramaratne, on Friday (12) ordered former Atamasthanadhipathi Pallegama Hemarathana Thera, who stands accused in a...
(Asiatimes) From this week, those using private buses in Sri Lanka may face severe transport disruption, as operators in the sector...
Boualem Khoukhi scored an equalising goal on a header in the fourth minute of stoppage time, and Qatar spoiled a...
Nestory Irankunda and Connor Metcalfe have scored as Australia have spoiled Turkiye’s return to the World Cup for the first...
The New York Knicks won the National Basketball Association championship for the first time in over 50 years, sending the...
Dasun Shanaka produced the batting ballistics, Kamil Mishara held the innings together, and Sri Lanka’s spinners dominated the middle overs,...
Three buses lined up at the City Street Station to ferry a long queue of cricket enthusiasts for the opening...
Vinicius Jr spared Brazil the embarrassment of defeat in an opening World Cup match for the first since 1934 as...
Debutants Harsh Dubey and Gurnoor Brar claimed three wickets each, while Shubman Gill slammed a fluent 66-ball 84 not out...
President Donald Trump has said a deal to end fighting between the US and Iran is scheduled to be signed...
Australia may have come into this Women’s T20 World Cup with doubts over their invincibility after entering a tournament without...
Shermaine Campbelle converted her maiden T20I fifty into a mighty, match-seizing knock of 90 not out from 62 balls, as...
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...
Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre (SVCC), the cultural arm of the High Commission of India, organized an online Dhamma Discourse on ‘Serivanija Jataka’ on Unduvap Full Moon...
by Norman Palihawadana The CID and intelligence sleuths have been detailed to probe the activities of Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) officers after it came to light...
by Randima Attygalle A motif of prosperity, new beginnings and goodwill, the betel leaf interlaces the multi-cultural Sri Lankan society. Bulath in Sinhalese and Vettilai in...
