The Government is maintaining a deafening silence on the investigations over a number of emblematic cases.

The often watched market lending rate, which guides the rest of the rates on loans to small businesses to mortgages to consumers, touched a two-year low last week continuing its descent.

The programme of providing free land rights to 2 million is currently underway and steps have been taken to give ownership of 50,000 flats in Colombo to the plantation people.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe assured that the government will not pass or leave anyone behind in the programme to strengthen the economy of the country as well as the people.

St. Peter’s College stamped their class when they beat Royal College 10-5 in the Dialog Schools Rugby Sevens 2024 final, which was worked off at the Royal Sports Complex today.

The Fox Hill Super Cross 2024 racing event, held in Diyatalawa today (21), turned tragic as a race car veered off the track, resulting in the deaths of seven individuals including an eight-year-old child and leaving over 20 others hospitalized with i

Gold prices across the globe are surging at all-time high prices amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.

A tense standoff unfolded outside the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) headquarters on Darley Road in Colombo 10, as a group attempting to enter the party building was met with resistance from the police.

Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe was appointed as the Acting Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) by the Maithripala Sirisena faction.

Sri Lanka is projected to fall short of its budget target on revenue to GDP (gross domestic product) for the 33rd consecutive year in 2024, according to the recently released ‘State of the Budget Report 2024’ compiled by Verité Research.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today that every low-income family will receive 10 kgs of rice monthly for April and May.

Claiming that people will not vote as a gratitude for goods distributed by politicians, Minister Prasanna Ranatunge said people have already selected Ranil Wickremesinghe for Presidency as he can rescue the country from the economic crisis.

Upcountry plantation workers launched a strike and staged a protest today demanding that their daily wages be increased to Rs. 1,700.

Sri Lanka remains steadfast in its commitment to reaching the debt restructuring targets and is confident of smooth progress in the continued good-faith engagements for a speedy debt resolution that will ensure debt sustainability and comparability o

The gradual increase in dollar reserves and the rise in the value of the rupee expected in the future will enable the import of vehicles, Finance State Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said.

There is a total shortage of 40,000 teachers in schools in the country, General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers’ Union, Joseph Stalin said.

Following the apprehension of four individuals, including two Sri Lanka Navy Lieutenant Commanders, in possession of a significant quantity of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as ’ICE,’ the Hulftsdorp Magistrate’s Court issued detention

A 33-year-old pilgrim who climbed to Sri Pada went missing after he jumped off the protective fence at the Ratnapura-Sri Pada route at the Uda Maluwa.

Dubai’s flagship carrier Emirates and sister airline flydubai have restored normal operations after heavy rains caused severe flooding across the United Arab Emirates earlier this week, the airlines said on Saturday.

The Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) fully supports the strike that the plantation workers are scheduled to launch from Monday (22), Nuwara Eliya District Member of Parliament Palani Digambaram said during a media conference held in Hatton today.

The Immigration and Emigration Department announced a forthcoming online visa system for travellers entering Sri Lanka by ship.

Two female passengers of the Republic of Guinea who tried to enter Sri Lanka by carrying Rs. 20 million worth of swallowed cocaine in their abdomens were intercepted by the Customs this morning.

Small nations like Sri Lanka will be adversely affected if the current conflict between Israel and Iran escalates, Presidential Advisor Ruwan Wijewardene said today.

Two individuals including a British woman were arrested while in possession of Kush and hashish drugs at Toppass, Nuwara Eliya, Police said.

President of the Vehicle Importers Association of Lanka (VIAL), Indika Sampath Merinchige urged the government to expand the allowance for importing used vehicles alongside new ones.

A new oral vaccine for cholera has received prequalification by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 12 April. The inactivated oral vaccine Euvichol-S has a similar efficacy to existing vaccines but a simplified formulation, allowing opportunities

The Catholic Church has not accepted proposals of the National Peoples Power (NPP) or the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) over the probes into the Easter Sunday attacks, Member of the Communications Committee of the Archdiocese of Colombo, Fr. Cyril Gam

A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon near the Lower Manhattan courthouse where jurors were being chosen for the criminal trial of former President Donald J. Trump.

The one-month general amnesty period announced by the Defence Ministry today will not be applicable to commissioned officers who do not report for duty without leave.

Under the beaming lights of New York’s iconic Times Square, Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya has broken the record for the longest chess marathon.