Outlining the main policy thrust underlying Budget 2023 that was unveiled last week, Finance Ministry Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana said it was designed with the intention of contributing to the economic stabilisation path, which the country had alre

The world’s largest single natural blue star sapphire cluster has not been sold as yet, and the cluster is being moved to Dubai from Switzerland, National Gem and Jewellery Authority Chairman Viraj de Silva said.

An earthquake on the main Indonesian island of Java has killed at least 162 people and injured hundreds, regional governor Ridwan Kamil has said.

While commemorating International Victims Day today, Transport State Minister Lasantha Alagiyawanna said the number of road accidents must be reduced to commemorate the day next year.

Magen Ratata Organization President Sanjaya Mahawatte claimed that the Sri Lanka representative for Mrs. Grand International 2022, Chamika Withanawasam, had allegedly been asked for sexual bribes.

It was revealed before Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court that a woman arrested in connection with the investigations into alleged human trafficking to Dubai and Oman was a translator attached to a foreign employment agency.

There’s no plans to remove Fuel Management QR code system from next month as stated by certain media and social media, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera tweeted.

Several female teachers in many schools in the island have begun attending schools dressed in casual clothes instead of the mandatory saree dress code.

According to the Registrar General’s Department, it was reported that a proposal has been tendered to remove the ’ethnicity’ from the birth certificate.

A shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook Indonesia’s main island Java on Monday, killing at least 44 people and injuring hundreds, local officials said, with buildings damaged and a landslide triggered.

A UNICEF report had indicated that at least 50,000 children suffer from malnutrition in Sri Lanka, Chairman, Professional Forum of Professionals on Medical and Civil Rights, Dr. Chamal Sanjeewa said.

The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) has temporarily halted the registration of women who acquire private visas for untrained and domestic employment in Oman and the UAE.

The Education Ministry today launched its first-ever Mathematics Education Teacher Awareness Web Portal, ’’MetaHub,’’ to make it quick and easy to solve issues that the teachers face related to the subject of mathematics.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Dilip Wedaarachchi staged a satyagraha inside Parliament chambers today calling for immediate relief for fishermen.

While expressing confidence that tourism sector is picking up, Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said today that nine passenger liners bringing in tourists is scheduled to reach Sri Lankan ports by March next year.

Eighty French travel agents arrived in the country this morning to promote tourism in Sri Lanka.

In the wake of the arrest of two suspects linked to the human trafficking to Dubai and Oman, a 49-year-old woman surrendered to the CID this morning for alleged involvement to the malicious racket.

The Colombo High Court today permitted Parliamentarian Udaya Gammanpila to travel abroad from November 23 to November 29.

Two sisters in a same family who had defrauded Rs. 120 million from a Sri Lankan who is living in Norway were arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officers in Jaffna.

The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) today questioned the presence of Police Commission Chairman Chandra Fernando and member M. P. Perera at the airport to welcome former Minister Basil Rajapaksa, and wanted them sent out of the commission.

The Ministry of Public Security has decided to transfer officers-in-charge of police stations who have been serving in the same police station for more than three years.

The Chief Sanghanayake (Dakshina Lankawa) of the Ramanna Sect, Ven. Omalpe Sobhitha Thera stressed that the Mahasangha and the Buddhists in Embilipitiya will not allow the government to implement the proposed project to cultivate 10000 acres of Ganja

A 22-year-old gunman entered an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, just before midnight Saturday and immediately opened fire, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others, before patrons confronted and stopped him, police said Sund

A man who who was conducting tuition classes has been arrested by the STF for distributing narcotic capsules among schoolchildren in Kalutara along with capsules.

The government held talks with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa to explore the possibility of getting his country’s support for the establishment of the domestic truth seeking mechanism as part of reconciliation process, a Minister said .

Accounting and tax experts expressed skepticism over the overly optimistic tax revenue estimates in Budget 2023 amid a shrinking....

Lotus Tower Management Company (Pvt) Ltd (LTMC) last Friday entered into an agreement with Singapore-based renovation and interior....

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) officially launched the ‘Lanka T10’; a franchise league set to be contested in a 10 overs per side format, at a media briefing held in Colombo on Sunday.

A man has been acquitted by Court of Appeal from the murder charges after being on death row for two years after defence proved that the accused was somewhere else at the time the offence (alibi).

Samagi Vanitha Balawegaya National Organiser and former MP Hirunika Premachandra said that she was blamed for hugging police officers but they have never asked her to move aside when doing this gesture.