A person who was admitted to the Polonnaruwa Teaching Hospital with critical head injuries in an attack has died last night (March 15).

Two persons are reported dead after a vehicle collided with a train in the Koggala area today (16 March).

Printing of ballot papers for the postal voting of the upcoming Local Government election is held off as required funds are yet to be received, the Department of Government Printing says.

Fourteen people have died and several others are missing after floods swept through the streets of two cities in south-east Turkey devastated by last month s earthquakes.

The collective of professionals trade unions has put a temporary halt to their strike actions from today (March 16), after their countrywide one-day token strike on Wednesday.

An earthquake of 7.1 magnitude struck the Kermadec Islands region in New Zealand on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Two suspects have been arrested for stealing a T-56 firearm with 03 magazines and a cache of 90 bullets issued to a soldier of Sri Lanka Army, who was deployed for duty at a security guard booth at the Panagoda Army Camp.

Sri Lanka s economy shrank 7.8% in 2022 from the previous year, government data showed on Wednesday, as the country struggled with its worst financial crisis in more than seven decades.

The Department of Meteorology says atmospheric conditions are getting favourable for afternoon thundershowers in most parts of the island.

Many trade unions staged a one-day general strike yesterday, demanding that taxes, tariffs and interest rates be reduced. The organisers of the strike said they would intensify their trade union action unless the government heeded their demands. More than 40 trade unions, in several sectors, joined the strike, organised by the trade unions of professionals. Many other […]

The United Kingdom’s finance minister, Jeremy Hunt, has hailed his plan aimed at speeding up a stagnating economy as tens of thousands of workers who are furious with the government went on strike, calling for better working conditions and wages that would allow them to navigate a worsening cost-of-living crisis. Hunt on Wednesday unveiled childcare […]

Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 16 March 2023 by the Department of Meteorology The atmospheric conditions are getting favorable for afternoon thundershowers in most parts of the island. Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in Western, Sabaragamuwa, North-Central, North-western and Uva provinces and in Galle, Matara, Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya and Mannar districts […]

Aljazeera reported that Shares in Credit Suisse have plunged and dragged down other major European lenders as fears about deeper problems in the world banking system have spread in the wake of bank failures in the United States. Credit Suisse shares lost more than a quarter of their value on Wednesday, hitting a record low […]

Text and picture by PRIYAN DE SILVA  Chairman of the Election Commission (EC) Nimal Punchihewa, addressing participants at an International Women’s Day event, held in Colombo, on Tuesday evening, said that female members of local authorities were less corrupt, more sensitive about the future of the nation, and more law-abiding, compared to their male counterparts. Punchihewa said […]

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Under 19 Cricket   Open batsman Oween Salgado scored back to back centuries as St. Peter’s College took first innings honours against Isipatana in the Under 19 traditional match at Bambalapitiya on Wednesday. In reply to Petes 205 runs, Isipatana were bowled out for 173 runs. Shennon Rodrigo with a five wicket haul was the […]

Under 19 Division I Tier ‘B’ Cricket quarter-final  St. Servatius’ advanced to the semi-finals of the Under 19 Division I Tier ‘B’ tournament as Viran Chamuditha grabbed five wickets to restrict Ananda to 181 runs to earn first innings points in the quarter-final at Uyanwatta stadium on Wednesday. St. Servatius’ will now meet Mahinda in […]

By Norman Palihawadane Underworld gang leaders, Nadun Chinthaka alias Harak Kata, and Panadura Salindu Lakshita alias Kudu Salindu, who had been staying abroad, were flown back to the Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday morning (15), from Madagascar. A team of officers from the Colombo Crime Division, and the Organised Crime Investigation Unit, arrived at the BIA air cargo […]

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday announced that their 24-hour token strike will be called off at 08.00 a.m. today (16). Media Spokesperson of the GMOA, Dr. Chamil Wijesinghe said they had taken that decision in response to a series of proposals, submitted by the Presidential Secretariat to the Professionals’ Trade Union Alliance (PTUA). He said […]