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...
The United States provided details of the 14-point memorandum of understanding it reached with Iran on Wednesday. Neither has released...
Scotland take on West Indies in Leeds at 18:30 local time (17:30 GMT) in Group 2 of the Women’s T20...
Moscow has come under the largest Ukrainian attack since the start of the full-scale war, with close to 200 drones...
Oil prices have dropped following the United States and Iran’s signing of an interim peace agreement, resuming a slide interrupted...
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,...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday raised concern over recent attempts to threaten legal action against Attorneys-at-Law for work undertaken on behalf of clients,...
Friday 5th September, 2025 The state-owned Sevanagala sugar factory remains embroiled in a protracted crisis, with sugarcane farmers and transporters demanding their overdue payments. Farmers’ associations...
Sri Lanka’s Cherry Barb (Rohanella titteya), a freshwater jewel revered by aquarists around the world, is at the heart of an explosive scientific controversy involving allegations...
The Post-Neoliberal Crisis The recent historical record of the political centre-right is not particularly impressive. To define the centre-right in this contemporary period, it may be...
The Department of Irrigation has announced that the demarcation of boundaries of 15 more reservoirs will commence later this month. Work on the demarcation of Kandy...
Sri Lanka is set to fortify its digital economy with sweeping cyber security reforms, including the creation of a powerful new Cyber Security Authority and a...
Residents of Nochchikulam have expressed deep frustration as the rehabilitation of the Nochchikulam tank remains stalled, despite water having been drained over a month ago to...
A 32-year-old suspect connected to underworld assassinations was arrested on Tuesday night at Holbrook, Agarapathana by the STF and handed over to the Agarapathana Police, yesterday....
Colombo Fort Magistrate Nilupuli Lankapura Wednesday (03) acquitted former IGP Pujith Jayasundara, charged with assault and criminal intimidation of Samarakon Banda, an elevator operator serving at the Police Headquarters....
The Habarana–Veyangoda Transmission Line Project, funded by the Government of Japan under a USD 65 million yen loan, was inaugurated on Wednesday (3) at the New Habarana...
About 50 acres of a forest reserve were destroyed by fires in Bibile and on the Yudaganawa hills on Tuesday night. The fires had erupted at Arangala...
A consignment of narcotics with a street value of Rs. 322 million was apprehended on Wednesday (03) evening by officers of the Customs Narcotics Control Division...
