The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is in one of the strongest hydro storage positions in recent memory, but it has...
As many as a million Lankan women workers in key export sectors will lose their jobs and income if the...
PSL 2025 will resume on May 17, with the final on May 25. While there hasn’t yet been a public...
While the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has yet to officially announce the venues for the final...
IPL 2025 will resume on May 17 and end on June 3, as per the revised schedule announced by the...
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said his country will respond strongly to what he describes as a future “terrorist...
With US President Donald Trump due to visit Gulf states this week, a key focus will be securing significant new...
Pope Leo XIV demands the release of imprisoned journalists in the first news conference of his pontificate Addressing the world’s...
The US and China have agreed a deal that will significantly cut the import tariffs, or taxes, both sides have...
Hamas says it will release Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, who is believed to be the last living captive with US...
In her Vesak day message, Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya wished that this Vesak celebration be a blessed one filled...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in his Wesak Day message says that all Sri Lankans should unite with determination and diligence...
A Colombo Magistrate has issued notice on the Captain of the stricken oil tanker MT New Diamond to appear before him on September 28, Court reports...
by Dr Sarala Fernando Former Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinghe recently referred to the need to reshape Sri Lanka’s outward migrant flows to become “smaller, smarter and...
When we think of greenhouses, we tend to think of the cold hills of Nuwara Eliya, old fashioned English homes and Victorian botanical gardens full of...
by C.A.Chandraprema Over the past several days, we have been hearing various criticisms of the 20A by members of the opposition as well as from pro-government...
by S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI: Onions have taken the centre stage in the latest strain in ties between India and Bangladesh. Bangladesh...
Describing the remarks of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Sri Lanka on the proposed 20th Amendment as “unwarranted and pre-judgemental, based on presumption”,...
Memoirs of a GA’s wife by Carmen Ranjini Amarasekera It was in 1965 that Wimal assumed duties as GA Moneragala. We were just married and having...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma The terms “Freedom of Religion” and Freedom of Worship” are often used as interchangeable concepts. They are not. The difference in the meaning...
Sri Lanka Tourism and the Vocational Training Authority (VTA) signed an agreement last week to train drivers involved in the tourism industry, which will enable training...
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador-designate to China, Dr. Palitha Kohona was feted at a felicitation dinner hosted by Emeritus President & CEO of PATA, Lakshman and Barbara Ratnapala...
Even we oldies and betters in this laid back country are now well and truly into the phenomenon of ‘new normal’. We assumed this new manner...
A historical vignette The Colombo Electric Lighting and Tramways Co Ltd was a British company represented in Ceylon by Boustead Brothers. The Tramways were ready for...
