Colombo Fort Magistrate Isuru Neththikumara has directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to arrest former SriLankan Airlines board member Shasheendra Rajapaksa and produced him in court in ...

Sri Lanka’s long-standing challenges in animal welfare have once again come into sharp focus, as conservationists and activists renew calls for urgent legal reform, humane population management, and ...

President’s Counsel Maithri Gunaratne has urged the Parliament to intervene in an ongoing investigation conducted by the Treasury into the wrongful payment of USD 2.5 mn loan instalment to a third ...

We first saw him on the small screen in January 1986 – a relatively raw, totally untrained and a very nervous 24-year-old presenting ‘Bonsoir’ on ITN. And now, 40 years later, and as one looks back, ...

There is a particular stillness in Sri Lanka’s forests, after dusk — a kind of hushed expectancy where shadows lengthen, cicadas soften their chorus, and the night begins to breathe in its own rhythm.

Sri Lanka has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening its national security and countering terrorism financing with renewed focus on Targeted Financial Sanctions (TFS), according to media reports ...

With no military quick-fix in sight to the ongoing, convoluted West Asian conflict it ought to be clear to the rationally inclined that there is no other way to a solution to the blood-letting other ...

Doctor Upul Wijayawardhana (eminent physician), posed a riddle for us. He wrote about that island Sri Lanka as ‘ this little dot in the ocean’ when deriding the remark of President Dissanayake who had ...

A sudden fire that broke out at a textile store in Menikhinna town early hours of yesterday (22) has caused damage to it, as well as several surrounding shops, police said. According to police the ...

The Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2026 will be held from 10th July to 5 August 2026. The sixth edition of the much-anticipated T20 league will be played across four venues: SSC, Colombo; RPICS, Colombo; ...

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the appointment of Iraj Chaminda Pathiraja as the Controller General of Immigration and Emigration on a permanent basis. Earlier, the Cabinet on 19 May, 2025, ...

The Sri Lankan community in Cooma, Australia, celebrated their sixth consecutive Sinhala and Tamil New Year festival on 12 April. Despite a cold autumn morning, participants arrived from Canberra and ...