The return to Colombo after a four-day State visit to China appears to have placed President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in a frenetic mood. Despite the much-acclaimed successful trip, the sense of ...

Dr. Subashini Pathmanathan will deliver a lecture on the “Life and Sacrifices of Gandhi ji” to mark Mahatma Gandhi’s 77th death anniversary at the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre auditorium, 16/2 16 ...

School development officers (SDO) protested this week opposite the Colombo Fort railway station demanding that they be integrated into the state teachers’ service as they have worked in government ...

More than 50,000 students who sat the Grade 5 scholarship exam have reached the cut-off marks set to apply to another school. A total of 319,284 students sat the exam, which later ran into controversy ...

Sri Lanka will be among the countries that will be affected by the new Donald Trump administration’s decision to freeze all existing foreign assistance and halt new aid. The newly appointed United ...

Have you ever received damaged notes from the ATM dispenser? One customer experienced this on two occasions and asked whether the banks were violating the rules in terms of damaged notes. The Central ...

The number of suspected dengue cases reported for this month, up to last Friday, has risen to 3,915, the National Dengue Control Unit of the Health Ministry said. In the third week, 1,158 cases were ...

Officials representing the Ceylon Chamber of Coconut Industries (CCCI) this week raised serious concern over the coconut crisis facing the country. Pic by Indika Handuwala ...

An increase in the basic salary or allowances of public sector employees is under consideration by the government as it prepares to present its maiden budget next month. According to Treasury ...

The Rangabhishek Ves Graduation Ceremony 2025 was held today at De La Salle College, Colombo, marking a historic first for Colombo North schools. The ceremony celebrated the graduation of twelve ...

The Colombo Port City construction delays due to successive governments’ ad hoc decisions of suspending the ongoing work from time to time have caused a loss of millions of dollars to the state, the ...

More than 175,000 tourist arrivals have been recorded in the first three weeks of this month showing a steady increase. The highest number of tourist arrivals were from India, 30,000, amounting to ...