Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vijitha Herath, held talks with Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Andrey Rudenko at the Foreign Ministry,...
Police yesterday arrested 157 foreign nationals in connection with an alleged organised online financial scam, conducted from a hotel in...
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...
Iraq’s qualification for the FIFA World Cup 2026 has completed the lineup of 48 nations for the tournament hosted by...
A total of 365 US service members have been wounded in action since the start of the US-Israeli war with...
The head of Italy’s football federation (FIGC) has resigned, falling on his sword after the men’s national team failed to...
Iranian forces have said they struck down two fighter jets belonging to the United States military, one over the southwest...
Nasa has shared the first high-resolution images of the Earth taken by the Artemis II crew as they head on...
With the US-Israeli war with Iran waging on, the White House earlier announced that it will ask the US Congress...
Punjab are the Kings of 200 plus chases in the IPL. They’d done it eight times before Friday night, and...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 03 April 2026, valid...
Naval operations conducted at Norochcholai and on Wella Island in Kalpitiya on Aug 29 led to the recovery of about 1,428 kilos of dried turmeric smuggled...
Ambassador Godfrey Cooray met the Managing Director of Norwegian lobster farm, Asbjøn Drenstig, a leading businessman in lobster farming in Norway. Drenstig was also involved in...
From Left; Ms Thilini Amarasinghe (Senior Engineer) and Nandana Niyangama (Manager-OPMC -Kurunegala ) of SLT receiving the award Sri Lanka Telecom, the National ICT Solutions Provider...
Tuesday 1st September, 2020 It looks as though waste management, in this country, had come to mean keeping cities clean while other areas are stinking. Whenever...
By Debapriya Mukherjee Former Senior Scientist Central Pollution Control Board, India A widespread loss of pollinating animals in recent decades is a fundamental deterioration in nature....
Former Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam arriving at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter Sunday attacks yesterday.Pic by Thushara Atapattu by Rathindra Kuruwita...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Sri Lanka paid a very heavy price to bring the war to a successful conclusion, in May 2009. The armed forces, the police...
“The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an...
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, August 31: Pranab Mukherjee, India’s former President and one of the country’s most admired political leaders, died...
The flag staff being raised yesterday evening commencing the festivities of the 113th Annual Feast of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Matara Text and...
SAMPUR, August 31 – U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Alaina B. Teplitz opened the new Khoonethivu Navalar school in Sampur on August 26. The new facilities...
By Devanesan Nesiah The US presidential election is due in November this year. For people in Sri Lanka, as in much of the globe, that would...
