The government has chosen not to respond to questions raised by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) regarding the...
The Army, last week, vacated an area, within the wartime high security zone in the Jaffna peninsula. The Defence Ministry...
The Hational Building Research Institute (NBRI) has issued landslide early warnings to the Districts of Kandy, Kegalle, Matale and Ratnapura...
The head of Turkiye’s football refereeing body and four other officials have been placed in pretrial detention by a court...
A car has crashed into a crowd of rugby league supporters in the eastern Australian city of Newcastle, injuring 10...
Polls have opened in Latvia for an election taking place against the backdrop of perceived security threats from Russia and...
Rapid half-centuries from Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Verma at either end of their innings set India up to defend their...
In a game dictated by bowlers, Tharindu Ratnayake’s counter-attacking 65 became a big difference as Sri Lanka downed Bangladesh to...
The G7 has agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel in a bid to ease supply pressures...
Th European Union “fully rejects” a US demand to release emergency diesel stocks as the fuel’s price soars in America...
Opening batter Sineth Jayawardena has charged into the Sri Lanka T20I squad for the series against Pakistan, while Vijayakanth Viyaskanth...
At the end of a wretched week in Nisshin, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have something real to play for: an...
The courts had quite justly come to be regarded as the sentinel over the powers of the legislature and the executive in Sri Lanka in order...
Ministerial Consultative Committee on Urban Development and Housing in session Steps had been taken to introduce a new online system for local authorities to approve construction...
PRAYING MANTIS The whole wide world wants her to be their President. An American says “If we had a President like her in the United States,...
By Uditha Devapriya With input from Pasan Wijesooriya The chronicles mention Polonnaruwa (Pulaththinagara in Pali) long before its advent as the capital of the country. We...
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution created the disagreements, contradictions and conflicts between the then President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and that resulted...
By Dinasena Ratugamage The Jaffna District COVID-19 eradication committee, on Thursday, decided to shut down a part of the Jaffna town and impose travel restrictions on...
Electric fencing, white elephant The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) revealed that although Rs. 490 million had been spent on building electric fences between 2019 and...
India is in the throes of a terrible viral epidemic. Much worse than the Bird Flu, much worse than swine flu. It has 91% mortality and, while...
Sri Lanka had lost support at the UNHRC because its double standards had been exposed, Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament on Thursday. The...
Saturday 27th March, 2021 The Opposition would have the public believe that the UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka could have been avoided if the government had...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne The CSE lost momentum as it closed on a marginally positive note, while turnover stood at Rs. 1.6 billion and was dominated crossings....
The People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL) yesterday said that decisive international action is the only way to achieve justice and a sustainable peace...
