The Maligakanda Magistrate s Court has issued an order on several trade union leaders of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and others over a protest march planned in Colombo this evening (15).

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has highlighted the government s efforts to enact numerous new laws aimed at apprehending criminals over the past two years.

A tense situation has been reported near the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo due to a protest.

It has been revealed during the meeting of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) that about 130 engineers of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) have left the service as of recently.

Singapore s long-serving Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is stepping down, marking the end of a political era for the island nation.

A woman has reportedly died after falling from the first floor of a house in Pihilladeniya area in the Gampola police division.

A total of 264 new leprosy patients have been identified from across the island during the period from the beginning of this year, according to the Anti-Leprosy Campaign (ALC).

The Joint Committee of University Trade Unions says they have decided to further intensify their strike action due to delays in addressing their demands.

Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 15 May 2024 by the Department of Meteorology Due to the low-level atmospheric disturbance in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, showery condition is expected to be continue further. Showers may occur in Western and Southern coastal areas during the morning  while showers or thundershowers will occur at several […]

In 2020 the painful case of Zahra, a domestic worker at a household in Rawalpindi where she was tortured for accidentally setting the employers parrots free came to light. The first information report, soon after eight year old Zahra was brought to the hospital said that she had injuries on her face, hands, below her […]

Education Minister Dr. Susil Premajayantha said that arrangements are in place to establish 1,220 school clusters across the country and 350 school boards are to be formed to oversee their operations under the initial phase of educational administration reforms.

Due to the low-level atmospheric disturbance in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, showery conditions are expected to continue further, the Meteorology Department said.

The Asian College of Journalism in India has announced the acceptance of applications for the South Asian Foundation scholarship for students and mid-level journalists in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, the Postgraduate Diploma course in Integrated Multimedia Journalism offered by the Asian College of Journalism in India starts on July 1, 2024. For further details on the […]

By Norman Palihawadane The Jaffna District Crime Prevention Division has raided a home-lab producing a stimulant drug, Crystal methamphetamine (‘ICE’) at Chunnakam. Jaffna SSP Jagath Wishantha said that acting on information elicited from a suspect, the raiding party had taken into custody equipment used to produce the synthetic drug. Police are looking for the owner of illicit facility. […]

The government was in overdrive to please the MPs who supported it while hoodwinking people with promises, SLPP dissident MP Chandima Weerakkody told Parliament on Monday. MP Weerakkody said that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had claimed that it had no funds to increase the salaries of state workers and they had to wait until next year. “All these […]

15th anniversary of defeat of LTTE: War veteran MP warns of LTTE rump, sympathizers exploiting situation By Shamindra Ferdinando General Secretary of Amnesty International, Agnès Callamard, is scheduled to visit Mullivaikkal, in the Mullaithivu District, where the combined security forces defeated the LTTE. The visit is scheduled to take place on 18 May, the day before the […]

Milinda Moragoda, Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, yesterday released a six-point statement concerning the present economic situation. “The bitter truth that half-hearted economic reforms by successive governments have been a major contributory factor to the current economic crisis”, Moragoda says, noting that it is critical that all political parties and society at large come to ...

SJB and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday called on the government to take stringent action against those engaging in pyramid scams in Sri Lanka. Premadasa said that ‘OnmaxDT’, a private firm was involved in a pyramid fraud of US$ 100 million in Sri Lanka. ‘OnmaxDT’ is among nine entities banned by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in August […]

In the bustling heart of Ja-Ela, Moose Clothing Company stands tall as a beacon of creativity, technical expertise, and workmanship. Established in 2018 with a vision to redefine Sri Lanka’s fashion landscape whilst bridging the gap between affordability and accessibility to good quality fashion, Moose Clothing Company has now embarked on a journey that transcends […]

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 […]

SLMC leader MP Rauff Hakeem yesterday in Parliament called on the government to consider severing diplomatic ties with Israel unless it stopped its ongoing military operations in Gaza. “On one hand, the government tells the world that the visit of Iranian President was a diplomatic victory and on the other hand it licks the boots […]

When I published earlier this year a book about my former students who had later become colleagues in subsequent educational innovations, I little thought that in few months one of them would die, in his early fifties, at the height of his career. Jayantha Wannisinghe was one of the first students I registered at the […]