Letter to Zuckerberg from Sri Lanka: No to religious hatred and misogyny on Facebook
Twelve Sri Lankan groups signed the letter. At least six million people regularly use Facebook on the island. The letter demands action to protect pe...
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CPC Sapugaskanda Oil Refinery undergoes major overhaul
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation’s (CPC) Sapugaskanda Oil Refinery successfully completed a colossal 35-day overhaul and renovation programme recent...
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This New Beachfront Jungle Lodge in Sri Lanka Is Our Latest Glamping Crush
With a pristine beach on one side and a wildlife-rich national park on the other, this eco-resort is an adventurer’s paradise....
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Ranil’s not suitable for post of Premier...
Leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, Member of Parliament Anura Kumara Dissanayake says Ranil Wickremesinghe is not suitable to hold the post of P...
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Sri Lanka car registrations up in March, Wagon-R leads
Sri Lanka's vehicle purchases rose 6.5 percent in March 2018 from a year earlier, with car registration up 107 percent to 5,968 units with Suzuki Wago...
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Southern Expressway grosses Rs. 105 mn during festive week
The Road Development Authority says that a revenue of Rs.105 million was generated from the Southern Expressway during the New Year Season from April ...
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Global recognition for SL’s dry zone Cascaded Tank-Village System
Included among 14 new sites in eight countries to be designated globally important agricultural heritage systems by Food and Agriculture Organiz...
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Abolishing Exec Presidency JVP to submit 20-A proposal JO says will support
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) yesterday (17) said that they would submit the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution, to abolish the Executi...
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SL joins C'wealth Clean Oceans Alliance to end plastic pollution
Countries from across the Commonwealth have yesterday pledged to eliminate avoidable single use plastic in an ambitious bid to clean up the world’s ...
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Aluthgamage remanded till today
Former Minister of Sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage was yesterday (16) remanded until today (17) the Colombo Fort Magistrate, Lanka Jayaratne, due to h...
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Govt. plans to build 50,000 flats for low income families in Colombo
The Government plans to launch a project to build housing units in Colombo and suburbs for low income families, aiming to relocate families presently ...
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NCM victory and the end of Yahapalanaya ?
Although the no-confidence motion brought against Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesighe, has been decisively defeated largely because of those who broug...
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Absence of termination clauses, ill-effects highlighted
Professionals oppose SL-Singapore free trade pact The recently signed Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SLSFTA) is a smokescreen for introduci...
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CABINET MEETS SANS SLFP, NEW CABINET BEFORE NEW YEAR
President Maithripala Sirisena had informed Cabinet of his intent to make a reshuffle before the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. The President had made an...
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MOVING LANKA TO A CASHLESS SOCIETY
Sri Lanka will be moving towards a cashless transaction era enabling it to become a digital economy with Visa, the global leader in digital payments t...
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Anusha creates history
First Lankan woman in C’wealth Games Boxing semis Anusha Dilrukshi Kodituwakku became the first ever Sri Lankan woman boxer to enter a semifinal i...
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22 Global reinsurance giants join to provide reinsurance
Sri Lanka's only local reinsurance provider, The National Insurance Trust Fund (NITF) has successfully concluded the placement of its reinsurance prog...
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Authorities had not made any attempt to resolve Uni. non-academic strike: UTAJU
The Higher Education Ministry(HEM) and the University Grants Commission (UGC) had not made any substantial attempt to resolve month long non-academic ...
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The Future of Colombo is here
In 1962 when Lee Kuan Yew visited Ceylon, he was coming from a war torn land. He immediately fell in love with the human scale and the large trees he ...
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Who won?
Who won the battle of the no-confidence motion? There were a two winners, not one. One of them won tactically and the other strategically. There were ...
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Which UNP politician lead the mob that surrounded MTV/MBC HQ
The individual who lead the unruly behavior opposite the MTV/MBC head office was identified as Kithsiri Rajapaksa a UNP politician representing the C...
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PM thanks supportive MPs, admits shortcomings, vows to strengthen Govt. and UNP
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (4 April) expressed his gratitude to all the Parliamentarians who helped to defeat t...
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WATCH: 'Sri Lanka's Got Talent' contestant knocks himself out during karate routine
Sri Lanka's got talent, and probably also a serious concussion. On the first season of "Sri Lanka's Got Talent" -- the latest of many localized Got T...
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