The newly appointed Cabinet Committee tasked with ensuring the uninterrupted functioning of Sri Lanka’s public service held its inaugural meeting...
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa on Friday lashed out at President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Parliament, accusing him of failing to...
Three weeks after the joint US-Israeli war against Iran began, the conflict has reached a fuzzy state of mixed messages...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre of the Department of Meteorology at 3.30 p.m. on...
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (Ceypetco) has announced a revision of fuel prices, effective from midnight today (21). Accordingly, Auto Diesel...
Advisory for Severe Lightning Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 12.30 p.m. 21 March 2026, valid...
Iranian strikes on military bases used by the US in the Middle East caused about $800m (£600m) in damage in...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre of the Department of Meteorology at 3.30 p.m. on...
Sophie Devine made Eden Park her own little playground as she brought up her 22nd T20I half-century and carried New...
When governing body officials the Africa Cup of Nations title to Morocco, overturning Senegal’s victory two months after the chaotic...
Every team in Fifa’s women’s football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach following the...
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel “acted alone” in attacking an Iranian gas field, as tensions mount over...
Education’s ‘Three Es’ and the McUniversities: Continued from yesterday Keynote Address delivered by Panduka Karunanayake Senior Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,...
Breathing new life into domestic production: By Vagisha Gunasekara The need to turn the current economic crisis that was pushed off the edge by the COVID-19...
They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going…and that is precisely the position where Sri Lanka is concerned. When the coronavirus pandemic, engulfed...
Sri Lanka-born Kerrigan La-Brooy, who now resides in Australia, and is heavily involved in Church work, is finding it hard to believe that his song, ‘Just...
The only concentration of Baobab trees, numbering over 40 trees, are found as a clump on the northern face of Mannar island, including a few others...
By Ranil Dharmasena and Rathindra Kuruwita The Election Commission (EC) yesterday said it would not go ahead with a proposal to allow those at quarantine centres...
By Ifham Nizam Plans are underway to construct 25 oil storage tanks in Hambantota and Power and Energy Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has asked a team of...
Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon inspecting the documents and equipment taken into custody from the scammers and the illegal Kachcheri. Text and pix by PRIYAN DE SILVA...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has reiterated that each and every promise in his National Policy Framework, “Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour” will be honoured in the coming...
Sri Lanka’s first paediatric liver transplant was successfully performed at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital at Ragama on 14 July. The hospital released information about the...
NPP Kalutara district candidate Dr Nalinda Jayatissa addressing a health workers’ conference at Hotel Nippon in Colombo. by Saman Indrajith Health workers while fighting against the...
A soldier guards an entry point to the Kandy Esala Perahera route to prevent people entering it when the Perahera began last Saturday. (Pic by Cyril...
