Across South Asia, an ominous great game is unfolding. China is battling for regional influence, with smaller buffer states caught in the middle as pawns. Far from peaceful rise, China’s tactics reveal a belligerent dragon pulling neighbors ever tighter into its orbit through debt-trap diplomacy, data colonialism and brazen political interference – a 21st century […]

In a recent discussion convened at the Presidential Secretariat, President Ranil Wickremesinghe articulated his vision for economic development and infrastructure investment, particularly focusing on the master plans for strategic tourism zones in the Eastern Province, the Colombo City the Western Region and Greater Hambantota.

A Bangladeshi court on Sunday barred the adoption of elephants from the wild, a move hailed by animal rights activists as a Âlandmark order to help stop cruelty.

The prevailing dry weather condition in Eastern and Uva provinces is expected to temporarily change from today (26), according to the Meteorology Department.

A 51-year-old Public Health Inspector (PHI) has been shot dead at his residence in Pathiraja Mawatha, Elpitiya.

Highlighting the importance of “collaboration and interoperability” among the coast guards personnel of the Maldives, India and Sri Lanka, Maldivian Defence Minister Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon said the trilateral exercise ‘Dosti’ will unite the troika to address “shared maritime security concerns through collaboration, according to online PTI report dated Feb 25th. Maumoon was speak...

Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, over the weekend assured that presidential election scheduled for later this year would be held.This assurance was given at a meeting held at the Batticaloa Divisional Secretariat on Saturday (24). Referring to his role and that of several unnamed others during the unprecedented 2022 crisis, Minister Rajapakse said that […]

President Ranil Wickremesinghe had ordered an investigation into a notification issued to Russian and Ukrainian tourists, without prior Cabinet approval, that they had to leave the country within 14 days, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said on Sunday (25). The PMD said the Sri Lankan government had not officially decided to revoke the visa extensions […]

SJB and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa on Saturday (24) announced that he was father of a baby girl. His wife, Jalani, too, was present at the meeting. Premadasa made the announcement at a public gathering at Kandy, where he explained the measures he intended to take for the benefit of Sri Lankan women after the […]

Foreign Minister Ali Sabry PC has said that in the emerging multipolar world, countries like Sri Lanka cannot afford to take sides and must be open to working with anyone. Minister Sabry made these observations when he delivered the opening address at the 3rd ‘LKI Foreign Policy Forum’, held on the theme ‘Reassessing Non-Alignment in a Polarised […]

SLFP leader Maithripala Sirisena, MP, was compelled to put off election of office-bearers of the party women’s organisation, indefinitely, on Saturday (24), due to opposition from a section of those present at the Darley Road party headquarters, sources said. According to sources, Minister Mahinda Amaraweera and State Minister Lasantha Alagiyawanna pointed out that the election […]

A few days ago, a young university lady lecturer was run over by a lorry at the Wickramasinghe Pura junction, Battaramulla. She was using a phone call while crossing the road. She was distracted by the call and lost sight of the moving traffic at this dangerous junction. She paid for her mistake with her […]

Monday 26th February, 2024 Sri Lanka is a nation in the hara-kiri mode. It needs no enemies; it has become its worst enemy. It continues to maintain a bunch of failed, corrupt politicians and their bureaucratic lackeys responsible for ruining the economy and hell-bent on degrading vital national assets which they are planning to dispose […]

… seeks opportunity to tell Parliament its side of story  No salary increases for Central Bank workers until 2027 Trade unions, etc., agreed to pay hikes by Shamindra Ferdinando The Governing Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), embroiled in an ongoing controversy over recent salary hikes granted to its employees, has sought […]

Front-line Socialist Party (FSP) spokesperson Pubudu Jagoda yesterday (25) alleged that the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government had allowed China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to obtain sand unlawfully from the Port City project for the construction of the East and Jaya Container in the Colombo Port. Addressing the media at the FSP office in Colombo, Jagoda claimed that […]

Pope Francis on Sunday called for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine that would lead to a just and lasting peace, as the second anniversary of Russia s invasion was marked a day earlier.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

Sri Lanka Police says the 55-year-old who was injured in the shooting incident at Jampettah Street in Colombo earlier today (25 Feb.) is suspected to be a close associate of the notorious underworld figure known by the alias Pukudu Kanna .

U.S. and British forces carried out strikes against more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday, officials said, the latest round of military action against the Iran-linked group that continues to attack shipping in the region.

Fishermen of Thangachimadam and Rameswaram areas in Tamil Nadu, along with their families, started a relay hunger on Saturday (24 Feb.) against the arrests of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy.

Negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza have resumed in Doha between Âexperts from Egypt, Qatar, the United States and IsraelÂ, as well as Hamas representatives, state-linked Egyptian media reported Sunday. .

In an effort to support the education of Sri Lankan children, President Ranil Wickremesinghe introduced the ÂPresidential Academic Scholarship Program 2024'2025, the President s Media Division reported.