Vast majority of wounded also non-convicts A file picture of the Negombo Prison during the recent riots By Shamindra Ferdinando...
The death of 128 wild elephants during the first four-and-a-half months of 2026 has triggered renewed concern among Wildlife authorities...
United States President Donald Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi have met at the White House in Washington, DC,...
Spain snuffed out France’s dream of a third World Cup triumph, taming their galaxy of forwards to win 2-0 and...
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the resolution furnished by the Minister of Housing, Construction and Water Supply to appoint S....
Oil prices have surged to their highest level in a month as renewed hostilities between the United States and Iran...
England will make a late decision on whether Declan Rice is fit to start the World Cup semi-final against Argentina....
The US military says it has launched a third consecutive night of strikes against Iran, hours before a reinstated naval...
India’s spinners made light work of England on the final day of the first ever women’s Test at Lord’s, wrapping...
Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the architect of Qatar’s remarkable transformation into an ultra-wealthy modern nation with...
The ECB has sacked Brendon McCullum as England’s Test head coach but he will remain in charge of their white-ball...
Yastika Bhatia followed India team-mate Kranti Gaud in etching her name onto the Lord’s Test honours boards with a...
Sri Lanka finally got their combinations right at the Women’s T20 World Cup and produced a commanding display to thrash Ireland by nine wickets with 27...
Thursday 25th June, 2026 The government has decided to scrap the long-held legal requirement to mark voters’ fingers with indelible ink at polling stations. It is...
The West Asian peace effort continues waveringly amid uncertainties. The world could be considered as having ‘some breathing space’ currently in this tangled situation on account...
“Thanks to the tireless mediation efforts of Pakistan and Qatar, significant progress has been made in ending the war in Lebanon…” –Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi...
Parliament yesterday took up for debate and vote a sweeping overhaul of Sri Lanka’s main environmental law, in what the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) hopes will...
The US has declared Sri Lanka Navy as partner of their Indo-Pacific strategy. The declaration was made onboard SLNS Gajabahu, formerly of the US Coast Guard,...
Chairman of the Election Commission R.M.A.L. Rathnayake yesterday (24) said that the EC had some time back requested the government to do away with the legal...
Long End Street is not a summation of Short End Streets. Eighteen short-term crises and no long-term growth in sight! For quite some time, there has...
The ‘Collective for Social Media Declaration'(CSMD) has strongly opposed the proposed “CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MEDIA PROFESSIONALS OF SRI LANKA” gazetted by the government in June 2026...
Education is widely recognised as the foundation of national development. For decades, Sri Lanka has maintained a strong commitment to free education, producing a highly literate...
By the time Sir Keir Rodney Starmer resigned, polls showed that he had become the least popular Labour Prime Minister in living memory. His fall was...
Accusing the NPP government of failing to bring dengue under control, SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa yesterday asked whether the much touted ‘Clean Sri Lanka’ campaign was...
