ADB Country Director to Sri Lanka, Takafumi Kadono reiterated ADB’s steadfast commitment to support Sri Lanka to achieve its renewable energy and energy security goals. The Country Director was ...

Independence Day celebrations will commence from today (February 2) and religious observances will be held on Tuesday morning (February 4). The main Independence Day ceremony will be held at the ...

Sri Lanka is now self-sufficient in egg production, eliminating the need for further imports, according to Sri Lanka Egg Producers’ Association Executive Director S.M. Premaratne. He said that the ...

It has been 15 years and nine days since Sandya Ekneligoda last saw her husband, Prageeth Ekneligoda. On the day, 50-year-old Prageeth, a cartoonist and columnist for the news website Lanka e News, ...

Sri Lanka loses an estimated US $40 million annually due to the unauthorised extraction of aquatic resources by Indian fishermen, according to senior lecturer in International Human Rights Law at the ...

Crowds greet President Anura Kumara Dissanayake as he arrives for a friendly interaction with the people at Chavakachcheri, Jaffna, on Friday, during his official tour of the North.

A thick grey haze hung over several parts of the island last week. Iconic buildings in Colombo’s skyline were partly blanketed in smog. Air Quality Index (AQI) levels exceeded 150 (Unhealthy) in ...

A man and a woman died, and 35 others were injured in a head-on collision between a private bus and a van on the Habarana-Trincomalee road yesterday, police said. The accident, which occurred around ...

Yet again, a group of Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu—this time 13 fishers—was arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy on January 27 for encroaching into Sri Lankan territorial waters during the night. They ...

As the congestion at the Colombo Port seems unlikely to ease off in the immediate future the business community including trade and industry chambers have called on the authorities to take urgent ...

A medical transport jet (Medevac) carrying a child patient, her mother and four others crashed into a Philadelphia neighbourhood in the US about 30 seconds after taking off, erupting in a fireball and ...

Migration has become a practical substitute for a growing number of Western senior citizens due to increased economic uncertainties. Some “Second Home Programs” that have been in place for ten years ...