Twenty nine percent of Sri Lanka’s adolescent population, or approximately 3.5 million young persons aged 10 to 19, are currently...
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has raised concerns over Sri Lanka’s failure to move forward with large-scale foreign investments, warning that...
US funding cuts will lead to an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day and over six million further deaths...
Ashutosh Sharma was going nowhere. He was on 20 off 20 balls. The required rate was over 12. Then he...
A high court in South Korea has upheld the conviction of a 24-year-old man for a series of sexual crimes,...
Three newly appointed foreign Ambassadors to Sri Lanka presented credentials to President Anura Kumara Disanayake today (24) at the Presidential...
Sunday was a day of surprises at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25. While the likes of Jakob Ingebrigtsen...
Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has moved to dissolve Parliament and trigger a snap election on April 28. The...
Three people were killed and 15 others injured in a mass shooting between two rival groups at an unsanctioned car...
The main rival to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been formally arrested and charged with corruption. Ekrem Imamoglu, the...
Chennai Super King’s bowling acquisitions during the off-season paid immediate dividends as their four new bowlers took nine wickets between...
Pope Francis has arrived home at the Vatican after leaving the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, shortly after making his...
The annual festival of St. Anthony’s Church on the Palaitivu Island, Jaffna was successfully held on 21 and 22 Mar 25. Demonstrating its commitment to community...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 25 MARCH 2025 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 25 March 2025 by the Department of Meteorology Misty conditions can be expected at some...
By Nalaka Ratnayake The Hatton Police Division, covering Nallathanniya, Maskeliya, Polpitiya, Nortonbridge, Ginigathhena, and Norwood, have launched special operations to combat drug trafficking and the illegal...
Tuesday 25th March, 2025 The JVP/NPP government is still upbeat about the passage of its maiden budget with an unprecedented majority of 159 votes. That was...
Two days before the killing of notorious criminal Sanjeewa Kumara Samararatne, alias Ganemulle Sanjeewa, two suspects, including alleged shooter Samindu Dilshan (known as Commando Samindu) and...
Sri Lanka was once at an economically comparable level with some of the world’s most developed countries in the 19th century. However, despite our country’s potential,...
The Colombo High Court yesterday (24) acquitted former Minister Udaya Gammanpila and businessman Sydney Jayasinghe of charges related to criminal misappropriation of Rs. 21 million, citing...
Former Minister Mervyn Silva and two others were further remanded until 03 April after being produced before the Mahara Magistrate’s Court. Silva was arrested by the...
By AJA ABEYANAYKE The Colombo High Court yesterday ordered that summons be issued for the fourth witness in a case filed against businessman Mohamed Ibrahim and...
The Gratiaen Trust on Sunday announced the distinguished panel of judges for Sri Lanka’s most prestigious literary award for creative writing in English, the 32nd Gratiaen...
The Committee on High Posts has approved the nominations of two Ambassadors, a High Commissioner, and Sri Lanka’s new Permanent Representative to the United Nations in...
Lanka India Business Association (LIBA) is now in operation in Sri Lanka to further enhance the already close ties between Indian and Sri Lankan businesses. Santosh...
