Showers or thundershowers in the Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central, North-western, Southern and Northern provinces with heavy showers above 100 mm is expected, the Meteorology Department said today.

The government should resolve the salary issues before reopening schools, UNP Deputy Leader Ruwan Wijewardene said.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has issued its full investigation report into the incident where former parliamentarian Nirupama Rajapaksa and her husband Thirukumar Nadesan being listed in the Pandora Papers for havi

Former Director General of the Archaeology Department and renowned Sri Lankan pre-historian, Dr. Siran Upendra Deraniyagala, passed away at the age of 79.

The use of fossil fuel should be stopped as humans and animals have left a limited space to live on earth, former Minister S.B. Dissanayake said.

The Environment Ministry will present a Cabinet Memorandum regulating the proper usage of furnace oil discharged by ships.

Crowds were seen surging back to cities just three days after the islandwide quarantine curfew was lifted raising concerns that we are inviting another COVID-19 wave. Pictures show people thronged shopping malls in Colombo yesterday.

Facebook revealed in an official blog post on Monday evening that the six-hour outage across its platforms including Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp, and OculusVR were caused by configuration changes to its routers.

Following the shocking allegation of former parliamentarian Nirupama Rajapaksa and her husband Thirukumar Nadesan being listed in the Pandora Papers for having hidden wealth stashed away in offshore companies, the Daily Mirror learns that this matter

As the pandemic pushed the world, including Sri Lanka, into the digital highway faster than anyone would have thought possible, the authorities at home are beefing up legal protections against its citizens’ personal data, used both online and offli

The Railways Department is prepairing to operate with the vintage wooden compartments with steam engines as tourist attraction in view to boost tourism in the country. Pix by Kushan Pathiraja

There is no direct link between the reopening of schools and vaccinating children, Deputy Director-General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath said.

Accused who were charged for the Easter Sunday attacks in April 2019 are being escorted to the Colombo Special Trial -at- bar by the Prison officers today. Pix by Pradeep Dilrukshana

Claiming that Nirupama Rajapaksa and her husband Thirukumar Nadesan were not those outside the crooked circle of the current regime, JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said today they doubt if the wealth exposed by Pandora papers was of those within

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have gone down in several parts for the world, users reported on Monday evening.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) requested the Health Services Director General to convene the Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases (ACCD) to get permission to administer the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine to children be

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that as the oldest democratic country in the region, which has never been under a dictatorship or an authoritarian regime in any period of its history, Sri Lanka will provide solutions for issues through a democratic

Twenty-five suspects, accused of the terrorist attacks on three churches and three hotels in April on Easter Sunday were charged before the Special Trial -at- Bar today.

The appeal petitions filed by Ratnapura District Parliamentarian Premalal Jayasekera and two others challenging Ratnapura High Court’s judgement to convict them for committing the murder of an individual following a shooting that took place in 2015

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe today requested Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to inquire from the Attorney General whether legal action could be taken against former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen who is currently held under detention orders for getti

The pavement hawkers in Colombo resumed their businesses after a lapse of more than one month. Sri Lanka went into a lock down for more than a month as COVID hit the nation for the third time in August this year. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

The bodies of a man and a woman were found hanging in a room of a house at Lindara in Mirigama this afternoon, Police said.

Claiming that there was no basis in the reports that plans were afoot to hand over the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm to India, Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said today that he did not meet the visiting Indian Foreign Secretary as claimed by some peopl

India’s top court has approved the government’s decision to pay Indian 50,000 rupees ($674; £498) as compensation for every death due to Covid-19.

The inmate visits, which were suspended due to COVID situation resumed from today. Pix by Nisal Baduge

Two US researchers have won the 2021 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for work that unlocked the secrets of the sense of touch.

New Zealand on Monday abandoned its long-standing strategy of eliminating coronavirus amid a persistent Delta outbreak, and will instead look to live with the virus and control its spread as its vaccination rate rises.

Police arrested a suspect for breaking into two ATM dispensers and stealing over Rs.7.6 million in cash, Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is likely to issue the relevant directive within this week in connection with vaccinating children belong to 15-19 age group, Army Commander Shavendra Silva said.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) Director General for South Asia Kenic Yokoyama met Power and Energy Minister Gamini Lokuge at the Ministry to seek assistance provided by the ADB to achieve the target of 70% Renewable by 2030.