President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has instructed officials to give top priority to restoring the livelihoods of communities affected by the...
The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) reported yesterday that 211 people had gone missing following the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah....
Crisis-struck Sri Lanka’s vital tea exports have dropped to their lowest level in 23 years, official figures showed Wednesday, hit by a fertiliser ban and the...
by ECB Wijeyesinghe Holland has been mentioned so often in these columns recently that one cannot help lamenting the almost mass exodus of a small but...
By Rex Clementine Some of Sri Lanka’s best cricketing moments while touring England have come in Leeds, the capital city of Yorkshire. During the 2006 tour,...
Franklyn Amerasinghe The caption is to focus attention on the significance and importance of the workers day this year, and secondly on the tragic situation employees...
by Savitri Goonesekere (Speech delivered at the launch of Nihal Seneviratne’s Memories of 33 years in Parliament) We meet this evening at the launch of a...
Saturday 7th May, 2022 Yesterday’s hartal crippled the country, which needs work stoppages like a hole in the head amidst the worst-ever economic crisis it is...
Hartal cripples country By Rathindra Kuruwita Trade unions, which held yesterday’s strike, warned they would launch a continuous strike unless the President and the government resigned...
Sri Lanka’s Test record against Bangladesh is one of near-complete dominance, but could that be about to change in the World Test Championship? The WTC returns...
The administration of the fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine will commence for those above 60 years, from Monday, Health Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana, said yesterday. Health...
By Rathindra Kuruwita The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) yesterday instructed filling station owners to limit issuing kerosene to five litres per customer. It said that fishers...
By Chandre Dharmawardana There is always a certain amount of truth in all conspiracy theories, putting the blame on the CIA, RAW, the Tiger Diaspora, ISIS, Chinese-Debt...
‘Success of countrywide protest warning to govt. leaders’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Veteran Communist Party politician DEW Gunasekera says the developing economic-political-social crisis cannot be resolved by...