Election Commission officials carried out a programme this week to educate members of Sri Lanka’s indigenous Vedda community ...

More than 30,000 premises were inspected during the islandwide mosquito eradication drive carried out from June 30 to July 5.

The main reason for this reluctance among specialists is that, in conscience, they cannot and will not recommend the cheapest if it is of a low quality, said many specialists on condition of anonymity ...

The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka (TEGOSL) has withdrawn from a committee appointed by the Ministry of Mass Media to draft a National Media Policy, citing contradictory statements from ministry ...

An internal inquiry should be held and disciplinary action taken against Customs officers who allegedly ignored recommendations made to conduct physical inspections on a stock of high-risk ...

Last Monday, the Navy tracked one such Indian bottom trawler in Mannar and tried to seize it in mid-sea after trying to chase ...

However, Lionel Gunasekara, president of the organisation to protect Sigiriya, questioned why no action has been taken by the ...

By Dilushi Wijesinghe The Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) has resumed accepting applications from fee-paying local students (day scholars) for its Bachelor of Medicine, Bachel ...

Of the total expenditure of Rs. 493.25 million, only Rs. 74.2 million was approved by the Presidential Secretariat and was given for these programmes, and the remaining funds (Rs. 464.59 Mn) had been ...

Under an IMF-recommended amendment to the National Audit Act (NAA), the Auditor-General (AG) will be bound to notify the Chief Accountant of an audited entity to “immediately” complain to law ...

The Supreme Court has noted the “compelling need” for magistrates to be educated on the need to take “judicious decisions—without functioning in a perfunctory manner—with regard to applications by the ...

Records show state purchases go back to the British colonial days when growers were told to sell two bushels (41.74 kg) per acre in Maha and a bushel in Yala. The guaranteed price was set in 1948 ...