House Committee to take up issue next week By Shamindra Ferdinando Over a week after the Opposition accused the government of deploying troops armed with wooden...
The biography ‘Unbowed and Unafraid’ of late Lasantha Wickrematunga, by his first wife Raine Wickrematunga will be launched at the Sri Lanka Foundation on March 27...
The funeral of Priyantha Wanninayake, 56, who died due to complications caused following police tear gas attack on Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) protest near the Law...
Japan has provided fresh funding amounting to over $1.8 million to UNICEF in aid of the most vulnerable children in Sri Lanka. The new contribution will...
Executive Director of the Institute for Democratic Reforms and Electoral Studies (IRES) Manjula Gajanayake at a function held in Colombo said that the Local Authorities Poll...
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...
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...
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....
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...
By Shamindra Ferdinando National Freedom Front (NFF) leader and MP Wimal Weerawansa has attributed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s downfall to two imprudent decisions taken by Mahinda Rajapaksa....