MONETABRIEF –The prosecution of high-profile individuals from the former Rajapaksa administrations is set to escalate this month with the clearing...
Police have reminded the public that courts have the power to take legal action against individuals who evade arrest or...
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...
‘No banning of Hijab’ pronounced Minister of Public Security, Rear Admiral (retd) Dr Sarath Weeraskera. This left Cassandra rather at sixes and sevens as she and...
Munchee, the flagship brand of Ceylon Biscuits Limited (CBL) has once again stepped up to support the country’s national sport by sponsoring the annual ‘Munchee National...
By Ashley de Vos President J.R. Jayewardene was toying with the idea of creating a new parliament to accommodate the increased number of Parliamentarians that had...
Vaccine import should be state preserve – lab technologists By Rathindra Kuruwita The government could allow the private sector to import COVID-19 vaccines if the state...
Monday, 16 March 2020, Emirates flight EK 2503 took off from Dubai to Kuwait. Although operated on a Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft, EK 2503 carried no passengers...
Pestalotiopsis leaf disease, a new threat to rubber trees across the whole world, has now become a grave threat to the sustainability of the rubber plantation...
National Peace Council (NPC) yesterday welcomed the government’s announcement that proposed laws to ban the wearing of the burqa and closure of a thousand Muslim madrasas...
Under-19 Cricket by Reemus Fernando Rishi Adishtan scored a century inclusive of 12 fours and a six as Maliyadeva beat Prince of Wales by 36 runs...
Samsung, Sri Lanka’s No.1 smartphone brand, announced the launch of Galaxy A32. With a refreshed minimalistic design and stylish camera layout, Galaxy A32 comes with best-in-class...
By Rajitha Ratwatte fromoutsidethepearl@gmail.com A wonderful description (methinks) for the media feeding frenzy, sparked off by fading talk show hostess, an obscure soap opera actress with...
By Shamindra Ferdinando A section of Railway trade unions and the Transport Ministry are on a collision course over the latter’s plans to obtain further financial...
History was revisited once again when the Commercial Bank of Ceylon returned to the original location of its Jaffna branch recently, resuming operations at an address...
