Dozens of spectators were injured at Fox Hill Super Cross being held at Diyatalawa today(21). The mishap took place while event no 17 of the day SLH Cars upto 2000cc One Make (Subaru Legacy) was being run and a car crashed in to the earth ramp injuring dozens of bystanders.  There were more than 100,000 […]

Five persons have been killed following an accident during the ÂFox Hill Super Cross 2024Â racing event held in Diyatalawa.

The Governor of the Southern Province Willy Gamage has handed over his letter of resignation effective from 02 May, 2024, to the President s Secretary.

A tense situation has been reported in front of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) headquarters at Darley Road in Colombo 10.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that every low-income family in the country will receive 10 kilograms of rice monthly for April and May.

Three including two children from the same family have been killed in a head-on collision involving a three-wheeler and a lorry on the Elpitiya  Aviththawa main road.

Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has been appointed as the Acting Chairman of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).

Terror attacks have surged in Pakistan in tandem with the resurgence of the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan, writes Dr. Sakariya Kareem Pakistan’s relationship with Afghanistan, a complex and turbulent one, is driven by its geopolitical ambitions and strategic concerns. Historically, Pakistan has pursued policies aimed at diminishing India’s influence in the region, often at the […]

In a landmark study published recently in the journal Mitochondrion, 10 researchers from five institutions -- including Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad;

The IMF s (International Monetary Fund) First Deputy Managing Director, Gita Gopinath has congratulated the Sri Lankan authorities on the steady progress made on several fronts, including inflation reduction, revenue enhancement and governance reforms.

All the churches across the island observed a two-minutes silence to mark the fifth anniversary of the deadly terror attacks on Easter Sunday (April 21) in 2019.

The House of Representatives has finally approved billions of dollars in new US military aid for Ukraine as it struggles to resist Russia’s invasion. The much-delayed measure had vocal opponents in Congress and it took a fragile bipartisan deal to get the $61bn (£49bn) package through. Now the focus shifts from “whether” to “when” lethal […]

The Meteorology Department says showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central and North-western provinces and in Galle and Matara districts after 2.00 p.m.

Two contrasting T20 innings were played on the two sides of the border on Thursday evening. One where the ball seemed to hit the sweet spot of the bat virtually each time. The other where the ball didn’t seem to find the middle of the bat at all. In Delhi, in an IPL game between […]

Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 21 April 2024 by the Department of Meteorology Misty conditions can be expected at some places in Western, Sabaragamuwa and Central provinces and in Galle and Matara districts during the morning. Showers will occur in the western coastal areas during the morning. Showers or thundershowers will occur at […]

Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma were protagonists in a record-breaking PowerPlay performance as Sunrisers Hyderabad breached the 250 run mark for the third time this season, making most of the benevolent batting conditions that Delhi threw up in its first game of IPL 2024. The pair put on a 131 run stand in just 6.2overs […]

ECONOMYNEXT –The government is expecting to conclude all the transactions related to divestiture of State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) by August this year under an ambitious reform process, the government-led State-Owned Enterprises Restructuring Unit (SOERU) said. However, the divestiture of loss-making Srilankan Airlines is likely to be concluded by September, it said. The SOERU has already called [&...

Staff of the head office of Ceylinco Life and their families took a shocking 732 kilograms of harmful pollutants and trash off a stretch of beach at Mattakuliya recently at a beach cleanup organised by the Company’s Green Club. The initiative was supported by the non-governmental organisation Clean Ocean Force, which undertook the responsible disposal […]

The Russian Embassy in Colombo, on Friday (19) stated that it possesses no information regarding the involvement of Sri Lankan citizens in the Ukrainian conflict on the Russian side, as well as any data on potential numbers of such individuals. Commenting on recent newspaper articles, the embassy said they are not aware of a local […]

By Norman Palihawadane Uncovering the truth behind the Easter Sunday attacks hinges on a change in the political system, Fr. Cyril Gamini Fernando, the spokesperson of the Archdiocese of Colombo said following his visit to the CID on Friday (19) morning. Fr. Cyril was summoned to the CID to provide his account regarding the Easter […]

ECONOMYNEXT –The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s investment arm emphasized the importance of the private sector engagement in the recovery of the crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s economic growth. Riccardo Puliti, the IFC’s Vice President for Asia and the Pacific said this when he met State Finance Minister Shehan Semasinghe and the island nation’s Central […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita  It is virtually impossible to remove Maithripala Sirisena as the head of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), given the party’s constitution, and the “illegal attempts” made a section of the politburo to remove Sirisena will only paralyze the party, former general secretary of the SLFP Dayasiri Jayasekera said. He also denied […]

Gift from Portuguese king to the pope (Excerpted from Selected Journalism by HAJ Hulugalle) We have heard of a Papal Bull. But a Papal Elephant’? What could that be? The Papal elephant about which I have some information, was without doubt a native of Ceylon; probably the first Ceylon or Indian elephant to arrive in […]