The Presidential Secretariat (PS) yesterday said that prison regulations concerning Buddhist monks serving prison sentences were expected to be adopted...
The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) has alleged that the ruling UNP, in a ridiculous bid to whitewash illegal...
Maaz Sadaqat crashed 96 off 51,Sahibzada Farhan clobbered 73 off 44, and Pakistan scorched their way through the last 12...
At least 139 people, including 15 children, have died and 84 are missing after a boat capsized off the coast...
US President Donald Trump has said he thinks “it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president” as he responded...
Matt Renshaw produced a herculean 190 and powered Australia to an unlikely first-innings total before Josh Hazelwood dismissed South Africa...
Pope Leo XIV has declared that the death penalty is “inadmissible” while his home country, the United States, announces plans...
The latest attack on King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital has injured several people, according to the country’s...
Hurricane Isaias has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone the day after it made landfall along the northern Gulf Coast...
Hundreds of protesters have been detained in Delhi during the latest demonstration by the Gen-Z led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)...
During the f8rst T20I against Sri Lanka on Friday, Pakistan demonstrated that 2026 is not quite like 2019. Back then,...
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a new set of sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC),...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 12 OCTOBER 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 12 October 2026 by the Department of Meteorology Misty conditions can be expected at...
Police have arrested a person on suspicion over an incident where 54-year-old restaurant owner Thushara Sampath, was shot dead near his business place at Nagoda, on...
Sixteen former ministers and three former state ministers have been convicted in cases filed by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) since...
Monday 12th October, 2026 Fifty-one government MPs have proposed a parliamentary select committee (PSC) probe into the 1983 anti-Tamil violence, known as Black July, and make...
I write this with a sense of profound disappointment, rather than as a critic of the government or any individual public official. For several months, I...
Sri Lanka has secured Tier 2 status in the United States Department of State’s 2026 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report for the fifth consecutive year, reflecting...
Parliament told his life is in danger Sri Lankan national Sivarasa Anojan, migrant worker on death row in Saudi Arabia, was given an opportunity to meet...
By Nilakshan Perera commemorate 45 years since 26 young men embarked on a journey that would become an enduring chapter in the history of the Sri...
“It is in the national interest to save civilian lives facing death within Sri Lanka’s EEZ” In an urgent letter sent on Friday (09) to President...
By S.K. Samaranayake The Malwathu Mahavihara Chapter has released an official statement on the recent discussion between the President and a delegation of the Maha Sangha,...
By Harischandra Gunaratna The family owned boutique hotel and resort chain Thema Collection recently opened its 17 th property, a coastal retreat, adding another heritage boutique...
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Member of Parliament Namal Rajapaksa has written to President and Minister of Finance Anura Kumara Dissanayake, urging him to incorporate tax...
