The appointment of former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon was a case in point where the decision by one of the civil society members to abstain during the vote on his nominations led to the then Speaker ...

Sri Lanka and Poland have signed a bilateral agreement on the transfer of sentenced persons between the two countries. The agreement was signed this week in Colombo between Attorney General Parinda ...

The CC’s rejection of O.R. Rajasinghe’s name means that four nominees the President has submitted to the CC over the past eight months to serve in a permanent or acting capacity as Auditor General ...

Cyclone ‘Ditwah’ that triggered rains and landslides caused immense damage to vegetable crops in various areas across the country. Most of the supplies that come into the Dambulla Economic Centre are ...

Pyramid Wilmar has donated Rs. 50 million to the Presidential Secretariat to aid the government’s relief effort towards the victims of the recent ‘Ditwah’ cyclone.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) team involved in investigations into the alleged misuse of Rs. 16.6 million in state funds by former President Ranil Wickremesinghe to attend his wife’s ...

It was not an Emperor’s decree but nature’s fury in the form of Cyclone Ditwah that displaced thousands of men, women and children right here in this country, “with no place for them in the inn”.

Come March next year, that bond will be celebrated on a grand scale as Sri Lanka hosts South Asia’s first-ever three-day reggae music festival, ‘One Love 2026 – A Tribute to Bob Marley’, on the ...

As part of India’s continued assistance to Sri Lanka under ‘Operation Sagar Bandhu’, the Indian High Commission in Colombo, Assistant High Commission in Kandy and Consulate General of India in Jaffna ...

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues its humanitarian response to the devastating floods and landslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah, which has affected over 1.8 million people ...

The annual gala dinner of the Voetlights Society was held on Friday at the Shangri-La hotel, Colombo. The event is an occasion to toast a 17th-18th century Dutch jurist Johaness Voet who influenced ...

But the logic that leads an individual to attack a Hannukkah celebration in Sydney as a response to events in the Middle East is fundamentally flawed. It rests on the dangerous assumption that a ...