Air Force tip-off leads to wildlife sting; two suspects remanded By Ifham Nizam ✍️ A lucrative black market, built on a myth, was exposed in Kahatagasdigiliya when Wildlife officers, acting on ...

An unidentified gunman yesterday (10) shot dead a close relative of Kanjipani Imran in the Kotahena police area. Police said that the killing took place near a bridge at Maligawatta. The victim was ...

Kaduwela Magistrate Aruna Indrajith Buddhadasa yesterday (10) ordered two personnel sureties of 2 mn each and granted SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam bail but imposed a foreign travel ban.

Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s #1 connectivity provider, supported the Ruhunu Maha Kataragama Esala Perahera 2026, marking its 21st year of patronage and continuing its longstanding commitment to ...

The Tamil National Council (TNC), led by MP Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, has formally appealed to India to intervene in securing a permanent political solution for Tamils, urging New Delhi to pressure ...

The Sectoral Oversight Committee on Governance, Justice and Civil Protection has been told that the Prisons Department was not in a position to provide rehabilitation opportunities to all inmates ...

A powerful earthquake has ro ked Colombia  and neighbouring countries, with the epicentre 400km (250 miles) west of the capital of Bogota. Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella says that the ...

Human skeletal remains belonging to 501 individuals have been excavated from the mass grave near the Siththupaththu Cemetery in Chemmani, Jaffna, in what a historian described as the first instance in ...

By Norman Palihawadane The government had allocated funds to import body scanners for 33 prisons, involving visual inspection of prisoners’ anal areas, to end the practice of strip searches, Justice ...

Capt. G A Fernando Former President, Aircraft Owners and Operators Association of Sri Lanka. President, Colombo Flying Club, Sri Lanka. Representative for ‘Aviation’ in the Organisation of ...

The International Masters Cricket Over-60s tournament got underway in Toronto, Canada, yesterday, with a strong Sri Lankan side hoping to make its mark against some of the best Masters teams in the ...

By Sanath Nanayakkare Sri Lanka’s financial safety net has caught a second wind. According to the latest data released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), the country’s official reserve assets ...