The National Youth Services Council (NYSC) of Sri Lanka has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UNICEF in order to promote ÂYouth-Led Climate Action in Sri Lanka.

By Shamindra Ferdinando Retired Foreign Secretary H. M. G. S. Palihakkara says Sri Lanka shouldn’t hesitate to recongise a Palestine state formally against the backdrop of Spain, Ireland and Norway having done so already.The veteran Foreign Service officer was responding to The Island query regarding what Sri Lanka’s response should be to the raging Gaza […]

Sri Lanka has again requested Canada not to repeat baseless allegations of genocide here. Foreign Secretary Aruni Wijewardane took up the issue when she met Canadian Deputy Minister for International Development Christopher MacLennan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday (28) Recently, Foreign Ministry accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of repeatedly propagating lies […...

By Shamindra Ferdinando Top Election Commission (EC) officials yesterday (3)) said that US Ambassador Julie Chung’s meeting with the top management of the independent commission shouldn’t cause concern among the public. EC’s Commissioner General Saman Sri Ratnayake said so when The Island sought his response to social media comments in respect of Ambassador Chung paying […]

by Reemus Fernando Sri Lanka Athletics has kept the door open for sprinter Yupun Abeykoon to compete at the 102nd National Athletics Championships to enable him to gain maximum possible ranking points to qualify for the Olympics. The Italy based sprinter has entered the ‘Road to Paris 24’ Olympic rankings for the first time at […]

The Court of Appeal yesterday (30) issued notice to the former Chairman of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), ex-President Maithripala Sirisena, MP, with regard to a contempt of court petition filed against him by Montague Sarathchandra, an executive committee member of the SLFP. A two-judge bench comprising President of the Court of Appeal Justice Nissanka […]

The US embassy said yesterday that this week’s meeting with the top management of the Election Commission hadn’t been influenced by what its spokesperson called any specific concerns or statements. Asked whether there had been previous meetings with the EC during Mahinda Deshapriya’s tenure as its Chairman or after and why the Ambassador Julie Chung […]

Nepal legspinner Sandeep Lamichhane will miss the T20 World Cup 2024 after his visa application to the USA was rejected for a second time. His initial application was turned down last week, following which the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) and the Nepal government intervened on his behalf, but despite their efforts he was turned […]

Notorious underworld figure and drug trafficker Ruwan Jayasekara, alias ÂMidigama RuwanÂ, has been brought back to Sri Lanka from Dubai by a team of offices from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today, Police Spokesman DIG Nihal Thalduwa said.

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ මහ ලේකම් පාලිත රංගේබණ්ඩාර ලබන සඳුදා මාධ්ය හමුවක් පවත්වන බව අද (30) ප්රකාශ කළ අතර ඒ පිළිබඳව […]The post රංගේබණ්ඩාර ඉවත් වෙයි? appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry says that the western countries have shown their double standards by turning a blind eye to the crisis in Gaza and that, serious amendments must be made to the international laws on how the United Nations functions in order to protect international democracy.

රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අගමැති ධුරය දැරූ 2015 ආරම්භයේදී ම සිදු කරන ලද මහ බැංකු බැඳුම්කර කොල්ලයේ ප්රධාන ම චූදිතයා වූ අර්ජුන් […]The post සජිත් පිලේ ප්රබලයෙක් අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන්ගේ ගැලවුම්කරුවෙකු වෙලා appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri Lanka.

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ සභාපති සහ මහ ලේකම් යන දෙදෙනා ම රජුගේ ආරක්ෂාවට යොදවා සිටි වඳුරා මෙන් ක්රියා කිරීම නිසා පක්ෂයට […]The post රනිල්ගේ වඳුරු කල්ලිය නිසා යූඑන්පී අභ්යන්තරය පුපුරයි appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri Lanka.