The NPP government is trying to maintain a balance between continuing demands for releasing north-east land held by the military...
Colombo Chief Magistrate Lahiru de Silva yesterday granted bail to Yoshitha Rajapaksa, second son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, on...
Leaders of the G7 have pledged at a summit in France to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences and increase pressure on...
Ghana’s fans and players celebrated wildly as Caleb Yirenkyi finished a sweeping counterattack with a tap-in goal in the fifth...
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, has announced that a memorandum of understanding with the United States has...
A game that began with the prospect of a chastening defeat for Pakistan at South Africa’s hands did, indeed, end...
Australia gave themselves another significant net run-rate boost by dispatching Bangladesh with ease at Headingley, restricting them to 77 for...
In overcast Headingley conditions, an all-round performance from Shafali Verma, who scored her first fifty at a T20 World Cup,...
Several tankers carrying Iranian oil have crossed the United States blockade line in the Strait of Hormuz, according to a...
An ODI between Canada and Netherlamds in King City Toronto on Tuesday was abandoned due to a dangerous pitch. The...
Joshua Da Silva and Amir Jangoo have earned recalls to West Indies’ squad for the two-match World Test Championship series...
England’s spin attack, led by Sophie Ecclestone’s three-wicket haul, secured their second win in as many games as they beat...
Thehan, Oneli, Hasali, Dinara win age group titles Royal College player Thehan Wijemanne, Asian International’s Oneli Perera, Visakha’s Hasali Gajaba and St. Bridget’s Dinara de Silva...
As AIA Insurance consolidates its position in Sri Lanka’s digital landscape, the company has rolled out the Sixer Video platform to enable online interviews for agent...
King Devanapiya Tissa on the advice of Arahat Mahinda in the 3C. BCE made a far reaching statement for the environment, that not only man, but...
Naval operations conducted at Norochcholai and on Wella Island in Kalpitiya on Aug 29 led to the recovery of about 1,428 kilos of dried turmeric smuggled...
Ambassador Godfrey Cooray met the Managing Director of Norwegian lobster farm, Asbjøn Drenstig, a leading businessman in lobster farming in Norway. Drenstig was also involved in...
From Left; Ms Thilini Amarasinghe (Senior Engineer) and Nandana Niyangama (Manager-OPMC -Kurunegala ) of SLT receiving the award Sri Lanka Telecom, the National ICT Solutions Provider...
Tuesday 1st September, 2020 It looks as though waste management, in this country, had come to mean keeping cities clean while other areas are stinking. Whenever...
By Debapriya Mukherjee Former Senior Scientist Central Pollution Control Board, India A widespread loss of pollinating animals in recent decades is a fundamental deterioration in nature....
Former Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam arriving at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter Sunday attacks yesterday.Pic by Thushara Atapattu by Rathindra Kuruwita...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Sri Lanka paid a very heavy price to bring the war to a successful conclusion, in May 2009. The armed forces, the police...
“The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an...
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, August 31: Pranab Mukherjee, India’s former President and one of the country’s most admired political leaders, died...
