Education 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 strike…
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Travel Removing Ranil as leader never envisaged -Akila
UNP Deputy General Secretary Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam, yesterday, said the removal of UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe hadn’t been envisaged…
Politics President in dilemma: UNP all out to oust SLFP ministers
President Maithripala Sirisena now has another serious problem to contend with as the UNP is all out to oust the SLFP ministers who voted for the no-faith…
Technology Malik Samarawickrama resigns as UNP Chairman
Minister Malik Samarawickrama says that he has resigned from the Chairmanship of the United National Party (UNP). The Minister of Development Strategies and…
Crime ADB Report says 40,000 Lankan post-grad students in OECD countries
There were 40,000 Sri Lankan graduates, reading either for a Doctor of Philosophy or Master’s degree in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and…
General 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 saw as a…
Politics 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 also many…
Politics Ranil urges UNP to prepare for elections
Leader of the UNP and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, having defeated the No Confidence Motion (NCM) brought against him by the Sri Lanka Podujana…
Sports “Can a Leader who cannot control his own party, run a country?
Sirisena has no control over SLFP/UPFA The No-Confidence Motion, moved against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, has confirmed that President Maithripala…
Technology Bollywood star Salman Khan sentenced to five years in jail
An Indian court has sentenced Bollywood superstar Salman Khan to five years in jail for poaching rare antelope back in 1998. The actor has also been fined a…
Crime Three shot at YouTube HQ, female suspect dead
A woman opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters near San Francisco yesterday (April 3). It was reported that after wounding three people she took her own life as…
Politics 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 Colombo…
Sports Sri Lanka wins first medal at 2018 CWG
Sri Lankan weightlifter Chaturanga Lakmal won the Bronze Medal in the Men’s 56kg category at the 21st Commonwealth Games on Thursday. He wins Sri Lanka’s first…
Technology No-confidence motion against PM defeated
https://youtu.be/4EB-Z2Rp6pU?t=5 The motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated in Parliament with a majority of 46…
Politics 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 the Motion of…
General 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 Talent…
Politics PM Ranil Wickremesinghe defeats the No-Confidence Motion
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has defeated the No-Confidence Motion brought up against him by the Joint Opposition. The Premier gained the support of 122…
Politics Royal victory for Ranil
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe yesterday emerged victorious after he managed to decisively defeat the much anticipated No-Confidence Motion with a…
Business FinMin puts bunching debt figure at US $ 15bn between 2019 and 2022
The headroom to tackle Sri Lanka’s worsening public debt situation appears to be disappearing as the government estimates a whopping US $ 15 billion in foreign…
Technology Ranil scuttles no-faith bid
UNP musters 122 and majority of 46 JO, 15 SLFP MPs loyal to Prez back motion JVP votes against Ranil, flays Rajapaksas TNA, SLMC support PM en bloc Wijeyadasa,…
Crime Money talks for prisoners #967 and #968
They were accused of being involved in a major Treasury bond scam but putting them behind bars did not stop them from using the money they had to bribe…
Politics Ranil urged to quit unity govt, bring in SF as law and order minister
An overtly anti-Joint Opposition civil society grouping that campaigned for 2015 change of government yesterday said that the National Unity Government would…
Business Tourism earnings up 13.8% Jan-Feb Records US$ 880 million
Tourism earnings during the first two months of this year, as well as in the month of February this year reflected almost the same growth trend in arrivals to…
Politics National Audit Bill presented to P’ment
The long-awaited National Audit Bill was presented in Parliament yesterday by the Government as it seeks to widen the powers of the Auditor General and…