Wife of former State Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Suresh Sallay has asked CID Director retired SSP Shani Abeysekera to...
Yoshitha Rajapaksa, who served as a Lieutenant in the Sri Lanka Navy, has now been summoned to the Commission to...
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the appointment of a Committee, chaired by Senior Presidential Advisor on Digital Economy Dr....
Former New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has retired from all international cricket with immediate effect. The 35-year-old featured in the...
West Indies survived a spirited Sri Lankan defence in chase of a middling target of 148, as they eventually secured...
El Niño – the natural Pacific weather pattern that pushes up global temperatures – has officially begun, US scientists say....
South Korea came from behind to defeat Czech Republic 2-1 as substitute Oh Hyeon-gyu scored the winning goal in the...
US police are investigating a large imprint of the numbers 8-6-4-7 that were apparently drawn in the grass of the...
Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha, who has been in a coma for more than three years, has died, the royal household has...
Donald Trump says he has “cancelled” strikes against Iran saying negotiations with Tehran were “brought to the highest level of...
Bangladesh secured their first ODI series victory against Australia after they won the second ODI by five wickets in Dhaka,...
The National Building Research Organisation [NBRO] has issued landslide early warnings to the districts of Kalutara, Kandy, Nuwara Eliya and...
India and Sri Lanka recently conducted constructive and cordial discussions on rescheduling bilateral debt repayments by Sri Lanka. It is of note that during a recent...
A month ago I received distress calls from people in Mumbai that the Municipal Commissioner had suddenly swooped down on a 20-year-old feeding platform (chabutra) for...
Saturday 25th July, 2020 The incumbent administration markets itself as a government of patriots by patriots for patriots. Its leaders never miss any opportunity to wrap...
* MoE decision to scrap competitive sports for U13 age category The age limit restrictions that will come to effect from 2021 for school sports competitions...
Electoral politics has taken a huge leap back into history. King Buvenakhabahu II and the Kingdom of Kurunegala are big players in the politics of 2020,...
“I was in Grade Four when Sunil Ariyaratne wrote ‘Sakura Mal Pipila’. That song first made me realise how abstract music could be. In later years,...
BY DR. D. CHANDRARATNA I am writing this as an addendum to Dr. Pethiyagoda’a enjoyable article, ‘Delight of Humour’ (14/7). In this dreadful time of a...
One of the silliest things on the internet is an international site called change.com. The owners have offices in a number of countries and the mandate...
Father Ernest Poruthota: By Uditha Devapriya Prasanna Vithanage remembers the afternoons of his adolescence quite clearly. “I’d take the train to Panadura from Bambalapitiya at 1.57...
I like pigeons. Their voices are soft and rhythmic. I have put up baskets for them in the front verandah and they live there quietly. They...
The first six years of my banking career was the most enjoyable, and it was the time that I learned my basics in banking at the...
