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 President Donald Trump has announced that any country that purchases oil or gas from Venezuela will face a 25-percent...
People living in coastal areas have been warned to get out of the water and move away from beaches after...
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...
A large crocodile was captured and safely released into the Mihintale Sanctuary by the Tirappane Wildlife Officers on Saturday night. According to the Wildlife officers, the...
‘Paralyzer’ by Geoff Sturre and Fred James Koch, which I believe was released in January, this year, has made the Music Week Top 30, in the...
HNB General Insurance (HNBGI) has joined hands with Union Bank through a strategic bancassurance agreement, marking a significant milestone in expanding access to innovative insurance solutions....
By Chaminda Silva The Prisons Department is currently considering a request from suspended police chief Deshabandu Tennakoon, who is under protective custody, to have meals brought...
Continued from last Saturday She presented a statistical analysis demonstrating that poor decision-making during certain periods in Sri Lanka which contributed to the resurgence of malaria...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne The CSE kicked off on a positive note yesterday, continuing last week’s promising scenario. Later the momentum slowed as local and foreign investors...
As he stood in a queue outside a makeshift tent kitchen for breakfast, 30-year-old Abhishek Bauddh could not help but reflect on the throngs of people...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 24 MARCH 2025 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 24 March 2025 by the Department of Meteorology Misty conditions can be expected at some...
State coffers suffered huge losses A probe conducted by the Auditor General’s Department and the Parliamentary watchdog committee, COPA (Committee on Public Accounts) has revealed that...
SLMC General Secretary Nizam Kariapper, MP, yesterday (23) said that the National People’s Power (NPP) government owed an explanation as to why it continued to ignore...
There has been an increase in underworld activities and gun violence this year, and 27 shooting incidents have left 22 persons dead, and more than a...
Chairman of the Election Commission (EC) R.M.A.L. Ratnayake said that the printing of ballot papers for the May 06 Local Government (LG) elections had commenced yesterday...
