A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip.

South Korea has voted to impeach its acting president Han Duck-soo, two weeks after parliament voted to impeach its President Yoon Suk Yeol.

A police sergeant was killed and another injured when a tipper truck knocked them down while inspecting vehicles at the Gal Oya check point on the Habarana-Trincomalee road last night.

The National Zoological Gardens Department has reported an income increase of over 150% compared to 2023, its Director General Ranjana Marasinghe said.

Amidst debates on claiming credit for debt restructuring, Minister of Labour Prof. Anil Jayantha Fernando said yesterday that fundamental agreements on restructuring 99 percent of the total external debts had been reached during the previous governme

Former Tourism Minister Harin Fernando extended special thanks to the current government for continuing the efforts initiated by the previous government to achieve a target of two million tourist arrivals.

Showers may occur in the Northern, North-Central, Eastern Provinces and in the Matale district, the Forecasting Division of the National Meteorological Centre said.

A Sri Lankan woman with health issues caused a plane to make an emergency landing at the Erbil International Airport on Wednesday. She died in the Kurdish capital hours later, according to Sri Lanka’s honorary consul.

Efforts to capture and sterilize toque macaques planned by the government has hit a snag. This is due to the shortage of veterinary surgeons, transport facilities and other facilities at the Giritale Sterilizing Centre while an environmentalist said

Sri Lanka faces the risk of its entire wild boar population being wiped out because of African swine fever that has already killed around 100 of them as observed by the wildlife authorities, an official said yesterday.

The Road Development Authority (RDA) is poised to sustain a cost of Rs.900 million for the restoration of damage done to the electrification system of the Katunayake - Colombo expressway by drug addicts in their acts of thefts of copper cables, an of

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who governed the South Asian country for two terms and liberalised its economy in an earlier stint as finance minister, has died. He was 92.

An interesting contest brewed in Centurion as South Africa pushed to confirm their place in next year’s ICC World Test Championship (WTC) Final.

Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake expressed interest in joining BRICS in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the republic’s ambassador to Moscow Pakir Amza told RIA Novosti.

A gem merchant in Nivithigala has found a blue sapphire in the shape of Sri Lanka.

The Vavuniya Hospital performed a life-saving surgery to remove a wooden rod lodged in the neck of a man admitted in critical condition.

The Russian government has cautioned against promoting ’’hypotheses’’ about the cause of the crash of a Russia-bound passenger plane that killed 38 people in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

Although Rs. 40 million is spent monthly on salary payments for the Dr. Neville Fernando Teaching Hospital (NFTH), the government does not intend to operate the hospital as a traditional government facility, Health and Mass Media Minister Nalinda Jay

The ICC has reportedly handed out punishment to India batting superstar Virat Kohli for shoulder-bumping Australian debutant Sam Konstas during the first day of the 4th Test that got underway in Melbourne on Thursday.

The government is formulating a mechanism to provide relief to depositors who had to pay 10 percent withholding tax whereas they earn less than Rs. 150,000 deposit interest a month, Minister of Labour Anil Jayantha said today.

Sri Lanka has welcomed its 2 millionth tourist who arrived from Bangkok this year, at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), after a five-year gap.

While assuming duties as the new General Manager of Sri Lanka Railways (GMR) today, Dhammika Jayasundara said that the Railway Department should transform into an institution that brings happiness to the people and to provide a people-friendly servic

The Acting Inspector General of Police has issued new directives for officers on traffic duty regarding procedures for stopping vehicles at night.

Legal action has been taken against nearly 9,000 drivers, including 251 for driving under the influence of liquor, for traffic violations and reckless driving within a 24-hour period that ended yesterday, police said.

The government is yet to assign vehicles to the MPs of the new Parliament though it has taken a policy decision to do so.

National consumer prices continued their descent for the third month in a row in November 2024, at a pace much deeper than a month ago as prices either fell or remained unchanged helping the pocketbooks of large swaths of people who were hammered for

Twenty big cats - including a Bengal tiger and four cougars - have died of bird flu over the past several weeks at an animal sanctuary in the state of Washington.