Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna, who has been running from pillar to post to be recognized for suggesting the Decision Review System used in cricket, was over the moon when a local commentator had said that there was a claimant from Sri Lanka (an

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has issued funds to obtain fuel from two vessels at the Colombo Port, Co-Cabinet Spokesman Minister Udaya Gammanpila said.

Sri Lanka born billionaire investor and minority owner of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors Chamath Palihapitiya responded to criticism over his comments where he has said that “nobody cares about China’s treatment of the Uyghur minority group”

Gamini Senarath assumed duties as the Secretary to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa a short while ago.

The day where the country is going to plunge in darkness indefinitely due to the current fuel crisis is imminent and cannot be prevented, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) United Trade Union Alliance Convener Ranjan Jayalal said.

To deal with the power crisis, Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera directed officials and all of its affiliates to take steps to reduce the use of incandescent bulbs by at least 50% during the day.

Two bodies of fishermen who went missing while fishing in the sea were found on the beach of Kayankerni yesterday, the Wakarai police said.

Operations of the Kelanitissa combined cycle power plant has ground to a halt this morning due to unavailability of fuel, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) Additional General Manager and media spokesman Andrew Navamani said.

The Yahapalana government should have opened the central expressway by October 2018, if former Minister Daya Gamage’s company did not delay the work on the stretch it was contracted to construct and if not for the constitutional coup inn the same y

Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) had been plunged into a deep crisis as the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has been unable to supply the required stock of fuel to the Kelanitissa Power Plant which has already shut down from last night

Zimbabwe beat Sri Lanka by 22 runs in the second one-day international to level the three-match series at 1-1 on Tuesday as Dasun Shanaka’s 102 went in vain.

Former IGP Pujitha Jayasundera had given a prior warning about the Easter Sunday attacks on Catholic Churches to four of the top police officers including DIG Western Police and to the DIG-in-charge of the STF, Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon said to

A large number of SJB MPs were not in the Parliament chamber when President Gotabaya Rajapaksa addressed Parliament today.

The fossilised skeletal remains of a herd of Rhinoceros that died in a meteoric shower more than 80,000 years ago have been unearthed from an 80ft deep gem mine at the foot of Rilaulu hill range in Lunugala in Modalsima.

Former Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force, Air Chief Marshal P. H. Mendis has passed away, Sri Lanka Air Force said.

The Anti-Death Penalty Group strongly condemned the ongoing use of the death penalty in Sri Lanka while referring to the Colombo High Court Special Trial-at-Bar sentencing former Welikada Magazine Prison Superintendent Emil Ranjan Lamahewage to death

A revision application filed on behalf of Attorney-at-law Hejaaz Hizbullah seeking an order to release him on bail was today fixed for January 20 by Court of Appeal.

India has offered a new Line of Credit (LOC) of USD 500 million to Sri Lanka for purchase of petroleum products.

Power Minister Gamini Lokuge speaking to Daily Mirror a short while ago said that LIOC had informed the Ministry that at this moment they were unable to supply fuel stocks for the generation of electricity to the CEB.

The Ceylon Electricity Board’s (CEB) diesel and furnace oil stocks will be sufficient only until 5.00 p.m. this evening for electricity generation, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation’s (CPC) Jathika Sevaka Sangamaya wing (JSS) Secretary Ananda Palitha

The Government of Sri Lanka unequivocally condemned the terrorist attack on civilian facilities in UAE which resulted in deaths of several civilians.

Sri Lanka has paid the USD 500 million sovereign bond that matured today (18), Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said.

Conducting coaching or tuition classes targeted at the 2021 (2022) grade five scholarship examination and the 2021 (2022) GCE Advanced Level (A/L) Examination will be prohibited until both examinations are concluded, Examinations Department Commissio

Special operations have revealed that a total of 2,746 suspicious temporary occupants have been residing in the Colombo City limits and Police are to verify their identities, Western Province Senior DIG Deshabandu Thennakoon said.

A member of the dance troupe which had arrived to perform for the ceremonious opening of the Parliament session today and a member of the House staff tested COVID 19 positive, sources told Daily Mirror.

The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) today said stern action will be taken against tourist establishments who practice a ’Foreigners Only’ policy.

A union attached to the National Zoological Gardens in Dehiwala, claiming themselves to be the ’’SLPP union’’, has scheduled to stage a protest today, saying that they are not getting a risk allowance of Rs. 5,000, sources said.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that priority will be given to electric vehicles in the future when importing vehicles into the country and said that there will be no change to the government’s policy on green agriculture.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, delivering the government’s policy statement in Parliament, said that he will not allow human rights violations to take place during his tenure and requested all politicians to refrain from provoking the public.

As Sri Lanka avoided an immediate debt default, averting a massive crisis, the country’s policymakers should now make use of the breathing space provided by the Indian credit lines to the tune of US $ 1.9 billion to engage with its creditors,