Sri Lanka is standing on the edge of a coastal catastrophe, with the nation’s lifeline rapidly eroding under the combined...
The Sectoral Oversight Committee (SoC)on Economic Development and International Relations recently examined the Microfinance and Credit Regulatory Authority Bill and...
A quick glance at the head to head record is enough to show the gulf between India and Sri Lanka...
With the objective of enhancing the living conditions of the agricultural community and increasing the contribution of the agricultural sector...
The Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education has entered into agreements with Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation General Limited...
20 Consultancy Boards have been established by now covering the production industries field with the objective of minimizing the policy...
The BCCI has raised the match fees in women’s domestic cricket, from INR 20,000 to INR 50,000 per day, for...
Gede Priandana, Indonesia’s 28-year-old right-arm quick bowler, has become the first to pick up five wickets in an over in...
Australia captain Pat Cummins won’t feature again in the Ashes and there is uncertainty about whether he will be available...
United States President Donald Trump has issued a new warning to Nicolas Maduro, saying “it would be smart” for the...
New Zealand 575 for 8 dec (Devon Conway 227, Tom Latham 137, Rachin Ravindra 72*; Alex Greaves 2-83) and 306...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to further jail terms following a...
by Malinda Seneviratne Revolutionaries, self-styled or otherwise, are hard to imagine as old people, the exception of course being Fidel Castro. Castro grew old with a...
by Kumar David This may appear to be a bold title just two months after the February 1 coup in Burma but it’s true. For starters...
A felicitation ceremony to mark the South Asian Games Taekwondo achievements was held at the Grand Monarch Hotel with the participation of Santhush Woonjin JEONG, Ambassador...
by Norman Palihawadana The CID has begun interrogating five persons linked to the three importers of contaminated coconut oil in a bid to get to the...
After the successful first manned space flight by Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961, earning the title of ‘First Cosmonaut’, he visited Sri Lanka (then Ceylon)...
ECONOMYNEXT – Non-medical cotton buds and lunch sheets less than 20 microns thin are among five types of single-use plastic and polythene related products have been...
SARATH AMUNUGAMA: The Lion’s Roar: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Making of Modern Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. ix + 556. Sarath Amunugama’s The Lion’s...
by Steve A. Morrell Brokers reported last week that the drop in tea prices was bad news for the industry, which was doing reasonably well in...
The Council for Business with Britain (CBB) is now a member of the British Chambers of Commerce and marked this collaboration with an open networking event....
One of my favourite Archie (from the comic strip) stories has Archie Andrews trying to land a job in the summer holidays. He finds one selling...
“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel...
The parents of a five-year-old boy who was left behind on a Coober Pedy school bus last week say better procedures are needed to safeguard against...
