World Kidney Day falls today The Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) crisis in Sri Lanka represents one of the most formidable public health challenges of the twenty-first century, manifesting as a complex ...

There can be no auspicious moment to celebrate life, foster humanity and work towards peace or prosperity. Sadly, we live in times where the energies of violence unleashed have sent tremors of anxiety ...

Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre of the Department of Meteorology at 3.30 p.m. on 11 March 2026, valid for 12 March 2026. The public are warned that the Heat index, the temperature ...

Misty conditions can be expected at some places in the Western, Central and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in Galle and Matara districts during the early hours of the morning. A few showers may occur in ...

(The 112th Birth Anniversary M. D. Banda fell on March 09.) My memories of Appachchi when I was very little are nebulous. Whilst this may be the case with all little children, even ones with fathers ...

Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya held a series of bilateral meetings with senior officials of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on 10 March at the ADB Headquarters in Manila, during her official ...

Nilanka Anjalee Wickramasinghe is, in fact, a reputed doctor, but the plus factor is that she has an awesome singing voice, as well., which stands as a reminder that music and intellect can harmonise ...

The recent humanly costly torpedoing of an Iranian naval vessel in Sri Lanka’s Exclusive Economic Zone by a US submarine has raised a number of issues of great importance to international political ...

The President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL), Rajeev Amarasuriya, Attorney-at-Law, recently delivered a historic address at the Supreme Court of India in connection with a delegation of ...

Gulf war continues for more than two months President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that though continuous energy supply could now be assured it would be only possible to forecast and guarantee this ...

The government’s sweeping electricity sector restructuring programme ran into fresh turbulence yesterday, with authorities warning that meeting a 40 percent salary increase, demanded by striking power ...

A UN vessel arrived in Colombo yesterday (11) to conduct a month-long marine scientific survey in Sri Lanka’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). This is the first foreign scientific research vessel here ...