India wants to upgrade the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, signed in 2000 during Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s presidency. Declaring that...
Sri Lanka’s creditors were unlikely to classify the recent USD 2.5 million Treasury fund heist as a technical debt default,...
United States President Donald Trump says he has had “very good talks” with Iran over the past 24 hours and...
The schedule for the IPL 2026 playoffs has been announced, with matches set to be held in Dharamshala, New Chandigarh...
The California man who allegedly tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at a Washington gala has been indicted on a...
The US operation to guide stranded vessels through the Strait of Hormuz will be paused for a “short period of...
Chennai Super Kings came into IPL 2026 with a dodgy look about their bowling attack. They lost three games straight...
Three prison guards attached to the Welikada Prison have been arrested by Borella Police following the death of an inmate...
Spanish police have seized what is thought to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the...
Three people have died and a UK national is seriously ill in hospital after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a...
President Donald Trump says the US struck seven Iranian “fast boats” after vowing to help stranded vessels out of the...
There were smiles at last for Mumbai Imdians (MI) on a night that hadn’t looked promising when Nicholas Pooran’s fireworks...
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...
