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...
Years of political history and football rivalry will collide in Atlanta when England face Argentina in a World Cup semifinal...
The 2027 ODI World Cup, to be co-hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, will be a 14-team event but...
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...
SJB leader Sajith Premadasa has invited the UNP and other political parties to join his party. Premadasa, who is also the leader of the Opposition, has...
Former Chairman of the Election Commission, Mahinda Deshapriya, on Saturday, strongly criticised the continued postponement of local government elections, declaring that every day without elections constitutes...
During the war, altogether 2,452 persons had been reported missing in the Jaffna district, a recent meeting of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP), at the...
Sri Lankan Member of Parliament and Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem has asserted that the sovereignty of Katchatheevu is a settled matter, under...
Biodiversity is the sum of all the patterns of life that nature creates in biomass An ecosystem is defined as a geographic area where biotic (living)...
Monday 22nd June, 2026 The JVP-NPP government, like all its predecessors, has got obfuscation down to a fine art. It muddies the water whenever issues concerning...
Countdown to September 2026 begins Sri Lankan exporters selling into Europe may soon face one of the most significant regulatory shifts in recent years as the...
In the tea-scented hills, the sprawling paddy fields of the dry zone, in various types of daily conversations, academic disclosures at very high levels, extremely loud...
Dark Fire From a tale set just over a 100 years ago, I move back several centuries to one set in the 16th century, in the...
Sri Lanka Navy Hydrographic Service (SLNHS) has achieved a historic milestone by producing 27 Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) covering major ports, harbour approaches and coastal waters...
Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Ananda Wijepala, recently said that rehabilitation centres would be established at district level to help drug addicts. In addition to...
The Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) has requested President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to ensure Major General Sallay receives unimpeded access to top-tier medical care, that his...
