… five senior officials suspended President’s Counsel Maithri Gunaratne has urged the Parliament to intervene in an ongoing investigation conducted...
Colombo Fort Magistrate Isuru Neththikumara has directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to arrest former SriLankan Airlines board member Shasheendra...
The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has issued Landslide Early Warnings to the Districts of Kurunegala and Ratnapura effective from...
US forces have boarded a ship carrying Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean, the US military says. It comes as...
Advisory for Severe Lightning Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre of the Department of Meteorology Issued at 12.00...
Standing on top of a customised van on a hot and humid afternoon in Tirunelveli, about 600km (373 miles) south...
When Gary Kirsten coached India to ODI World Cup glory in 2011, 20 million Sri Lankan hearts were shattered. Now,...
Sri Lanka seamer Nuwan Thushara has withdrawn his lawsuit against Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), just weeks after filing it when...
US Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving the Trump administration, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday. His departure will be “effective...
Israeli attacks have killed five people in southern Lebanon, including a journalist, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported, further straining...
South Africa completed their highest successful chase in T20Is and sealed the five-match series against India with two matches to...
It wasn’t the high-scoring spectacle that people might have expected, especially with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in the house, but that didn’t...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Apologies to the voters who will cast their votes on 5th August in case if they feel that the noble act of...
We publish in today’s issue of this newspaper two short contributions by retired policemen, one a letter to the editor and the other an article related...
Brandix was felicitated as the ‘Largest Corporate Blood Donor’ for the 10th consecutive year by the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) on World Blood Donor Day,...
Sarvodaya Development Finance, a licensed Finance Company approved by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, launched “Nena Diriya” Micro Leasing Loan with the aim of uplifting...
Eleven more tournaments across the ATP and WTA Tours have been cancelled after China announced it would hold no sporting events for the rest of 2020...
by Rex Clementine Watching County Cricket in the 1980s must have been fun. There were some quality players around. Hampshire had David Gower and Malcolm Marshall;...
A young woman I know, extra pious and believing in the paranormal aspects attached by believers to Buddhism, made the pronouncement that Sri Lanka was spared...
by Selvam Canagaratna “You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” – James Thurber, The Owl Who Was God, 1963 Too...
by Zacki Jabbar Former Prime Minister and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, stressing he has “no deals with anybody” said he is confident of forming a UNP...
Milinda Moragoda, former Cabinet Minister and founder of the Pathfinder Foundation spoke about the need for Sri Lanka to be fast and agile in order to...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma Mary Trump is Donald Trump’s only niece, the daughter of Trump’s alcoholic older brother, who died of a heart attack in 1981 when...
bY SURESH PERERA Amidst flak from the pharmaceuticals industry over the move by the regulatory watchdog to call for the cancellation of registration and import licenses...
