Starting January 01, 2024, only guests accompanied by licensed safari jeep drivers will be permitted to enter the Yala National Park.

Saudi Arabia has ranked first in providing work opportunities to Sri Lankan expats in 2023, as more than 63,000 of them found employment in the Kingdom.

Dasun Shanaka’s reign as Sri Lanka’s white-ball captain has come to an end as Sri Lanka’s new selection committee appointed Kusal Mendis and Wanidu Hasaranga to lead the ODI and T20I sides, respectively. With Dimuth Karunaratne currently leading the Test side, this is the first time Sri Lanka have three different captains in the three […]

Sri Lanka has seen more than 200,000 tourist arrivals in the month of December alone, marking the highest monthly arrivals recorded over the past four years.

Minister of Health Ramesh Pathirana has called for a report on the death of a patient at the Colombo National Hospital, which is linked to the ostensible administration of high levels of carbon dioxide.

The National Building and Research Organisation (NBRO), on Saturday (Dec.30) issued early landslide warnings for several localities in 5 districts, to be in effect until 02.30 p.m. tomorrow.

The All-Ceylon Bakery Owners Association says cake sales have significantly decreased during the Christmas festive season this year compared to the corresponding period in 2022.

Paris alone, where up to one million revellers are expected on the Champs-Elysees Sunday night -- twice as many as last year -- will get 6,000 security forces to keep order.

Four Fundamental Rights (FR) petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court, seeking an order preventing Deshabandu Tennakoon from serving as the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), and also preventing him from being appointed as the IGP.

The National Tsunami Early Warning Center of the  Department of Meteorology issued an alert that a magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck in the Indian Ocean at a depth of 10km off Sumatra at  around 10:49am today (30). The coastal areas were declared safe as there was no tsunami threat to Sri Lanka.    

Water tariffs will be increased by 3% from January 2024 in line with the VAT increase, the National Water Supply Drainage Board (NWSDB) says.

A special traffic plan is scheduled to be implemented in Colombo on 31 December, in view of the dawn of the New Year.

A White warning has been issued by the National Tsunami Early Warning Center, urging those living near and around the coastal areas to remain vigilant.

Sam Bankman-Fried, who once ran one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges and is facing decades in jail, will not face another trial, US prosecutors say. The 31-year-old was found guilty of fraud and money laundering last month. Prosecutors said the “strong public interest” in a resolution of their case against the former billionaire outweighed […]

Security forces have arrested over 1,500 suspects in a 24-hour window lasting until 12-30 a.m. on Saturday (30 Dec.), during the ongoing Yukthiya operation.

All train operations along the up-country line have been disrupted after a train derailed from the tracks.

Conducting all tuition classes in preparation for the 2023 G.C.E. Advanced Level Examination have been prohibited from midnight yesterday (Dec.29), as per an earlier announcement made by the Department of Examinations.

New Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha called on Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees in Colombo on Friday (Dec.29).

South Africa asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday for an urgent order declaring that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention in its crackdown against the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza.

Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Eastern and Uva provinces and in Polonnaruwa, Matale, Nuwara-Eliya and Hambantota districts.