The US tariffs will lead to an uncertain period of the major economic powers with implications to small countries like Sri Lanka , former President Ranil Wickremesinghe warned. Mr Wickremesighe in a ...

Two erstwhile strange bedfellows—the UNP and the JVP—are at each other’s jugular. Following the 2015 regime change, they embarked on the UNP-led Yahapalana government’s anti-corruption crusade. Their ...

The government and the Opposition are engaged in a no-holds-barred battle to win the upcoming local government (LG) elections. Their election campaigns have turned down and dirty, and the polity is ...

On the morn of Easter Sunday 21 April 2019, suicide bombers exploded their deadly payloads of explosives in three Churches and three luxury hotels in the country killing over two-hundred civilians and ...

Events subsequent to the attempt on CBK’s life President Chandrika Kumaratunga spent several weeks in the United Kingdom ...

Cicero’s tongue will have to be torn out, Copernicus’s eyes gouged out, and Shakespeare stoned. That is my system.” ...

Two passengers attempting to smuggle foreign-made cigarettes worth Rs. 115 million were arrested by customs officials at ...

In November 1955, the governor general of Ceylon, Oliver Goonetilleke, invited the Indian high commissioner, Birendra Narayan ...

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe will appear before the Bribery Commission on Monday (28 April) over the statement he ...

Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath will represent Sri Lanka at the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican City, the Ministry ...

By Shamindra Ferdinando Former Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, PC, ...

Former Navy Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera, said that the National People’s Power (NPP) government owed the ...