Prison officers yesterday requested Justice and National Integration Minister Harshana Nanayakkara to protect their colleague who opened fire at the...
Expressing concern over the death of prisoners, both convicts and suspects, as well as correctional officers, the United Nations Resident...
The third meeting of the Cabinet Subcommittee appointed to oversee the development of 25 Technical and Vocational Colleges under the...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that the Government plans to allocate a separate contingency fund for every district under the...
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has written to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) after the governing body deemed...
Morocco’s plans for their World Cup quarterfinal against France have been shaken up after it was confirmed that star forward...
Pakistan has urged “all parties” in the escalating United States – Iran conflict to exercise restraint after a fragile ceasefire...
West Indies have been fined ten percent of their match fee and penalised two World Test Championship (WTC) points for...
India’s top-order batter Pratika Rawal has been ruled out of the Lord’s Test against England starting Friday. Priya Punia has...
Seven students and a teacher have been killed in Bangladesh after a landslide hit a girls’ school inside a refugee...
The US has launched a new round of strikes on Iran after President Donald Trump signalled he’d “hit them hard...
Pakistan is searching for a Boeing cargo aircraft missing over the Arabian Sea with five crew members on board. The...
SJB says that they are still ready to join an all-party government if President Gotabaya Rajaapksa is not a part of it. Chief Opposition Whip and...
By Uditha Devapriya Lenin once remarked that there are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen. Much more than a decade passed last week...
by ECB Wijeyesinghe When I was a schoolboy of eight at St. Benedict’s College, Colombo, I was made to stand on a platform and recite “The...
As Sri Lanka experiences an unprecedented economic crisis – including spiraling inflation and a shortage of basic necessities – women are among the most vulnerable to...
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, like all politicians, is fond of publicity. He may perhaps be like a former outspoken UNP minister in the 1965 UNP administration,...
Lanka Special Steel Limited (Lanka SSL), a fully owned subsidiary of E.B. Creasy & Company PLC, continued its winning streak with its teams Awanetha, Target, Shakthi,...
by Bhikkhuni Dr W Suvimalee When Bhikkhuni Suvimalee phoned me to say she had completed another book, this time about a dedicated Bhikkhuni she admires very...
Thousands of Tamils killed in war were commemorated on Wednesday for the first time outside the minority’s heartland in the north and east of the country....
ECONOMYNEXT – Local politicians handpicked more than two-thirds of officers in charge of police stations, a move that backfired on ruling party stalwarts when angry mobs...
Shazna Muzammil, daughter of Uva Governor A J M Muzammil and social worker Ferouza, has successfully contested the Local Council elections in the UK by winning the...
by ACB Pethiyagoda While reading Mr. Neville Jayaweera’s article headlined “The wretched of the earth” in this newspaper of November 16, 2008 memories came back of...
by Savitri Goonesekere The last week beginning May 9, 2022 was the one before Wesak, now celebrated locally, regionally, and by the UN as symbolic of...
