An inmate of the Matara Prison has succumbed to an illness, presumed to be brain fever, Ada Derana learns.

For nearly four weeks, Donald Trump has sat quietly in a New York courtroom while state prosecutors laid out the first-ever criminal case against a former US president. Lawyers from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office have called on a cast of blockbuster witnesses and produced dozens of surreptitiously recorded conversations and documents to help corroborate […]

by Rajan Philips The attempted assassination of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has sent shivers down western spines. In a rare moment of unity, both Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin condemned the shooting. The identity of the arrested shooter has not been made public, but he is believed to be a 71 year old poet […]

Tensions – and voices – rose on Thursday as Donald Trump’s lawyer hit back against prosecutors, accusing their star witness repeatedly of lying. On the most tense day yet of cross-examination, Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s former fixer, described talking to the former president directly about a hush-money payment to an adult-film star. But attorney Todd […]

Lankan writer VV ‘Sugi’ Ganeshananthan’s novel Brotherless Night has won the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. She was awarded a cash prize of $150,000. All the shortlisted authors were also awarded an additional $12,500. This is the richest English-language literary prize in the world for women and non-binary authors. The other four shortlisted authors were: Eleanor Catton […]

Over Rs. 140 Million donated via Star Points to Little Hearts Project Since 2016 Dialog customers came together extending their support once again to contribute over Rs. 18 Million towards Little Hearts, an initiative spearheaded by the Sri Lanka College of Pediatricians, bringing the total donation amount since 2016 to Rs. 140 Million. The programme […]

Gateway College, Colombo overcame Lyceum International School, Wattala by 10-8 to snatch the Inter-International Schools Under-14 Netball Championship, after a stiff final played at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo last weekend. After a successful campaign Gateway, Colombo emerged the top team among a total of 15 international schools that were featured in the annual […]

TNA MP M.A.Sumanthiran told Parliament yesterday that the Tamils’ struggle was a struggle for justice. “It is a reasonable struggle for political rights. Our struggle may be too long and hazardous. But we will attain a just solution if we continue in the non-violent path without deviating from it,” he said, making a statement to […]

The star prosecution witness in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, Michael Cohen, has taken the stand to testify against the former United States president. Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer began giving his highly anticipated testimony on Monday morning, the latest day in the first-ever criminal trial against a US president. Cohen’s appearance in the […]

Police have used water cannons to disperse protesting university non-academic staff near Diyatha Uyana Junction at Battaramulla, Ada Derana reporter said.

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party s (SLFP) faction led by former President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to appoint Attorney-at-Law Keerthi Udawatte as the Acting General Secretary of the party, Ada Derana reporter said.

Swiss singer Nemo has won the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden, with their song The Code. A compelling hybrid of opera and hip-hop, it topped the jury vote, helping the 24-year-old gain an impressive score of 591 points. The singer becomes the first non-binary artist to win Eurovision. Fittingly, they wrote the song to explain […]

Fifteen Sri Lankan fishermen, who were detained in Myanmar prisons, have been released and repatriated to Sri Lanka. They arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake this morning (11), Ada Derana reporter said.

Donald Trump’s defence lawyer is cross-examining adult film star Stormy Daniels, the most high-profile witness to testify so far in the former United States president’s New York criminal trial. Daniels’s account of an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 riveted jurors earlier this week and served as a reminder to US voters of the […]

Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump have been locked in a years-long public battle over an alleged sexual encounter, a hush-money deal paid by the former president’s fixer, and their respective efforts to own the very public narrative. Those tensions – and the salacious details that surround them – spilled out in court on Tuesday when […]

An unidentified body has been recovered by police in the Diyawanna Lake along the Parliament Road, Ada Derana reporter said.