The ongoing West Asia war, triggered by joint Israel-US attack on Iran on 28 Februar, has benefited the China-run Hambantota...
A three-day “study visit” by the subject Minister to the Norochcholai coal power plant has triggered concern among power sector...
United States President Donald Trump has threatened to attack civilian infrastructure inside Iran, including bridges and power plants, if the...
Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru [RCB] razed Chennai Super Kings’ [CSK] attack and the record books, in front of their...
Mohammed Shami’s miserly 2 for 9 and Rishabh Pant’s uncharacteristic half-century helped Lucknow Super Giants [LSG] open their account in...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 05 April 2026, valid...
Sameer Rizvi picked up his second Player-of-the-Match award in as many games in IPL 2026, this time scoring 90 off...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 04 April 2026, valid...
Iran has executed two men convicted of being members of the banned People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) opposition group,...
An earthquake in Afghanistan has killed eight members of the same family when their home collapsed in the Gosfand Dara...
Former Executive Director of the National Lotteries Board (NLB), Thusitha Halloluwa was further remanded on Friday(6) until June 13 by the Fort Chief Magistrate’s Court. Halloluwa is...
A friend recently sent me a couple of interesting video clips on the opinions of Morgan Freeman, legendary African American actor, on race in America.In one...
The Court of Appeal on Thursday ( 5) scheduled the hearing of an appeal filed by former Minister Prasanna Ranatunga for June 16. The appeal pertains...
The Vidudaya J’pura 74–78 Shasthra Peeta Sansadaya, an alumni group formed by the 1974 batch of students from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, is set to...
Burdened with woes and many to spare? foregoing is a pastiche of the first two lines of the Welsh poet W H Davies’ poem ‘Leisure’ (1911),...
In the lush hills and tropical lowlands of Sri Lanka, a quiet revolution is stirring—one that seeks not just to revive but to radically transform the...
A newly published and widely acclaimed book ‘The Apostles of Development- Six Economists and the World They Made,’ by Yale historian Dr. David C. Engerman casts...
By Uditha Devapriya The Martin Wickramasinghe Collection at the National Library in Colombo contains over 5,000 books. Most of them are worn out and dusty, though...
Trump reposts that Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced by a robot The news from the USA last week began with the outrageous, followed...
(EU) The European Union and India have teamed up for a major naval exercise in the Indian Ocean. This exercise was undertaken to boost maritime security...
It began not with a policy collapse or a violent crackdown, but with a cascade of Instagram posts—swiftly deleted but not before they metastasised across the...
ANI:The year 2024 ended with a record of 439 fatalities in road accidents – the highest number in the last twenty years. In light of the...
