The teachers who have been assigned to other schools until December 31 due to various reasons will remain until March 24, 2023, until transfers are made by the transfer boards, the Education Ministry said.

A 20 member squad for the upcoming Sri Lanka tour of India was announced by the Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Committee today, following Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe’s approval.

One person has been killed after more than 200 vehicles were involved in a pile-up on a bridge in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou in heavy fog, according to rescuers and the CCTV state broadcaster.

Pope Francis has said that his predecessor Pope Benedict, the 95-year-old former pontiff who resigned from the post nine years ago, is “very sick” after a deterioration in his health on Wednesday.

Nissanka Priyadarshana, alias ’Dubai Sudda’ taken into the custody by officials of the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB), over the allegations of sending job seekers overseas without a valid licence, officials said.

A six-year-old girl and her mother who arrived at Madurai airport from China via Sri Lanka tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. They were both isolated by authorities.

Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp would end support for select smartphones across brands, including Apple and Samsung, starting December 31.

The CID has recorded statements from more than 80 persons including the mother-in-law of businessman Dinesh Schaffter in connection with the investigations into the murder.

Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella had instructed the Ministry to appoint a committee to prepare a list of drugs to consider a price reduction, GMOA Spokesman Dr Chamil Wijesinghe said today.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe today instructed the Nuwara Eliya District Secretary to immediately release 30 acres of abandoned land near the Ambewela Farms to the farm, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.

A total of 5,401 individuals reported to the Immigration and Emigration Department for obtaining dual citizenship during the past year.

At least 151 migrants among 300 Sri Lankans who were rescued on the high seas between the Philippines and Vietnam were brought into the country last night.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will distribute 36,000 metric tonnes of Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) fertiliser to all paddy farme

About 27 migrants from Bangladesh, Eritrea, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan were caught by Romanian’s Arad police after they tried to cross the border illegally into Hungary, hiding inside two trucks loaded with textile fabrics and metal rods.

A prison is like a university for intelligent people, and the media have reported everything that I did and did not do,’’ businesswoman Thilini Priyamali said addressing the media after being granted bail.

The Hambantota International Port (HIP) is supporting Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) to handle running repairs to vessels while they remain afloat in the harbour.

Sri Lanka’s hotel industry yesterday condemned the proposed move by the government to further hike electricity tariffs, asserting....

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The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has instructed police officers to investigate and pursue necessary legal action over complaints....

The Election Commission confirmed today that it postponed the issuance of the gazette notification calling for elections to the local authorities until the first week of January, an official said.

The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) is to charge a fine from the owners of unutilised land within the Colombo City.

Sri Lanka and Cambodia have exempted visa for holders of diplomatic and official passports with effect from December 24, 2022, Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Bangkok said.

A program will be implemented to provide solar panels to all low-income religious places through the Indian Credit Line within three months to provide at least a 5 KW solar system free of charge.

Sri Lanka was ranked 7th among the 10 countries with the highest food price inflation in the world, the latest World Bank assessment said.

If the electricity bill is not increased, people will have to adapt to power cuts running to several hours, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed Mahinda Sanath Weerasooriya as the Chief Secretary of the Sabaragamuwa Province and Pradeep Yasaratne as the Chief Secretary of the Western Province effective from January 1, President Media Division (PMD)

China will stop requiring inbound travelers to go into quarantine starting from Jan. 8, the National Health Commission said on Monday in a major step towards easing curbs on its borders, which have been largely shut since 2020.

Labour migration has been identified as one of the leading causes for the recent loss of employment witnessed in the country.

The authorities are now mulling another upward revision in water tariffs, weeks after they insisted that another round of electricity tariff hike was required to provide uninterrupted power next year.

What we are experiencing now is the consequence of handing over everything in the country to politicians, the Chairman of the National Movement for the Protection of the Nation Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thera said.