A foreign company that has secured the exclusive right to process applications for Sri Lankan visas stands to earn at...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Election monitoring body People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) Friday said that the government was...
Britain’s ruling Conservative Party has suffered a resounding defeat in local elections, a further sign that it is likely to...
Four overs of craziness aside, Royal Challengers Bengaluru played the near-perfect game at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium to roll Gujarat...
Japan Foreign Minister, Ms. Yōko Kamikawa, called on President Ranil Wickremesinghe this afternoon (4) at the Presidential Secretariat. Foreign Minister...
Police in Canada have made arrests in the fatal 2023 shooting of prominent Sikh-Canadian activist Hardeep singh Nijar, months after...
Ireland recorded an unequivocal, 54-run win over Netherlands to knock them out of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier....
Kolkata Knight Riders further embedded themselves near the top of the IPL table, and Mumbai Indians’ hopes of qualifying for...
Heat index advisory issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre at 4.00 p.m. on 03 May 2024, valid for...
General Secretary of the Lanka Jathika Estate Workers’ Union, Vadivel Suresh, emphasized that both the Government and the Plantation Owners ...
Advisory for high waves. issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre at 10.00 a.m. 03 May 2024 for the...
China has launched a probe to collect samples from the far side of the Moon, in what is being billed...
Some of the poorest women in an underdeveloped region south of Madagascar are “too ashamed” to seek the maternal health services they need, according to a...
A total of 9770 Army personnel who were absent without leave (AWOL) have been discharged from the Sri Lanka Army during the first two weeks of...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 05 May 2024 by the Department of Meteorology Misty conditions can be expected at some places in Central and...
The Sri Lanka Mahaweli Authority has outlined plans to grant a total of 204,002 Mahaweli settlers with freehold land deeds, of which 20,178 deeds will be...
An opinion piece on the island nation’s sovereign default by Bellwether published in Sri Lanka’s Economy Next news website is among the finalists for the prestigious...
By Chaminda Silva President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday said that if plantation company owners go before the courts against government’s directive of a minimum wage hike...
Plantations stocks closed upto 2.5 percent lower Thursday after the government announced that companies would have to pay a daily wage of 1,700 per worker. Already...
May Day falling last week, as is very well known, has long lost its Labour Day intent and flavour certainly in this country, degenerating into the...
(Excerpted from Life is a frolic by Goolbai Gunasekara) “The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves,” said Caesar – or rather...
Large-scale corruption has long plagued Sri Lanka, undermining the country’s economic development and eroding public confidence in the government. Citizens have become increasingly vocal in their...
ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring talks with sovereign bond holders are awaiting clarity on how the International Monetary Fund assesses securities linked to economic performance under...
This short speech made by President Ranil Wickremesinghe on April 28 clearly indicates his grip on Ceylon history. He made it on an occasion where he...
