GCE O/L 2017: 10,000 candidates secure ‘A’ passes for all subjects
Outstation students have secured top fifteen places at the G. C. E. O/L examination 2017 according to results released at Wednesday midnight by the Ex...
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US GSP duty free access effective for Sri Lanka from April 22
The re-authorised US GSP scheme enabling duty free exports will become effective for Sri Lankan exporters from 22 April, Minister of Industry and Comm...
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Google’s womenwill programme-launch in Sri Lanka
Google started Womenwill as a global initiative to help make a difference in bridging gender gaps and empowering women worldwide, by focusing their re...
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UNP ready for drastic changes in Govt - Rajitha
If the SLFP Ministers of the Yahapalana Government propose to the other coalition partner UNP to effect drastic changes in the Government including th...
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Reviving education in North will take years: PM
It would take at least another ten years to revive the fallen education system in the North, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today. Prime Mi...
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SLFP proposes ‘broader national’ govt. without Ranil as Premier
The SLFP yesterday proposed a broader coalition sans UNP leader and PM Wickremesinghe to implement President Maithripala Sirisena’s 2015 mandate. ...
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Sajin Vaas interrogated by SIU
Former SLFP Parliamentarian Sajin Vaas Gunawardana was interrogated by the Police Special Investigation Unit (SIU) yesterday (27) over several allegat...
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Not justifiable to label violent incidents as communal violence: Mahanayake Theras
Maha Nayaka Thera of the Malwatta Chapter Most Ven. Thibbatuwawe Sri Sumangala Thera today told a group of European Union Ambassadors that it was not ...
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Prez hits out at Ranil
President Maithripala Sirisena had criticized Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Government at yesterday’s (27) Cabinet meeting over the co...
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100-man contingent delayed pending HRCSL clearance
SLA deployment in Lebanon under UN command: The deployment of 101 member Sri Lankan Army contingent in Lebanon under UN command has been delayed pendi...
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Vehicle registrations rebound following duty cuts
Sri Lanka’s vehicle registrations in January this year recorded a rebound compared to December 2017 specifically in the small car segment, motor c...
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Watery grave for 8 bulletproof vehicles and LTTE vessel
The Navy today dumped in mid-sea the eight bulletproof vehicles earlier used by former presidents and a vessel seized from the LTTE. Navy's Acting Me...
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ONLY SIMPLE MAJORITY IN THE CHAMBER NEEDED TO OUST RANIL
JVP Propaganda Secretary and Gampaha District MP Vijitha Herath said yesterday that all Parliament needs is a simple majority of MPs in the Chamber on...
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Shang Properties, UDA sign 99-year land lease deal worth over Rs. 12.8 b
Venture to set up mixed-use development on six-acre site in Sir James Peiris Mawatha Colombo 2 Shang Properties Ltd., a joint venture of Kerry Pro...
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A bid to weaken CJ alleged
Judicature Amendment Bill: A consensus between those who had challenged the Judicature Amendment Bill in the Supreme Court and the government could ha...
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Protecting children from sexual predators
Finding out one’s child is a victim of sexual child abuse is a parent’s horrific nightmare. And finding out the sexual perpetrator is someone know...
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Self-Driving Cars
There are always some casualties when a new form of transportation comes along. In 1830, at the official opening of the world’s first railway, the L...
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A 500 Day Plan For Yahapālanaya
Corruption: Minnows and Sharks The government’s anti-corruption credibility is dented. Regaining trust requires prosecuting one’s own. Prosecuting...
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Facebook's Zuckerberg 'sorry' over Cambridge Analytica 'breach'
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the social network "made mistakes" that led to millions of Facebook users having their data exploit...
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Ministry Rental Scam Costs Millions To State Coffers
Startling revelations have now emerged of how the Chief Accounting Officer of the Ministry of Agriculture deliberately disregarded the directives of t...
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Arjuna shuts down fuel pricing formula
Minister points out decision has to be made by Govt. Insists intention is to minimise losses incurred by CPC Personally opposes introducing pr...
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Harsha de Silva summons Monetary Board
The financial crisis-hit Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (Private) Limited (ICTA) is attempting to transfer its abandoned...
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Listing large companies a must - CSE
Financial freedom must be given to State owned large enterprises to reach out to capital markets for their funding requirements, said Colombo Stock Ex...
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