The opposition yesterday questioned as to whether the government is ready to allow the MPs to implement their own projects through the decentralised budget.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, during his budget speech yesterday, took a brief detour from fiscal matters to make a light-hearted remark aimed at an opposition MP.

The government has outlined a comprehensive, multi-tiered strategy in its Budget 2026 to achieve the ambitious targets of four million tourist arrivals and US $ 8 billion in earnings by 2030, positioning the sector as a vital pillar of

The National People’s Power (NPP) Peliyagoda Urban Council member, whose husband and son were arrested for drug smuggling, resigned yesterday, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said yesterday.

Around 1,500 to 2,000 new leprosy cases are detected in Sri Lanka each year, with about 10% involving children under ten, Health and Mass Media Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said.

A man who had spent eight years in prison under a death sentence for drug trafficking was acquitted by the Court of Appeal, which found that the raid and recovery of productions in the case had not met the test of probability.

The government will implement a pilot project to provide quality, locally manufactured school shoes to replace the vouchers currently given to schools with fewer than 250 students, Industries and Entrepreneurship Development Minister Sunil Handunnett

Plans have been afoot to implement a project under the Clean Sri Lanka Initiative to erect plastic loops in main canals and waterways in Colombo city to collect plastic and polythene as a solution to the blocking of waterways on rainy days.

A former police officer who had posed as a senior CID officer and allegedly robbed more than 25 young men of their cash and valuables, along with two accomplices, was arrested yesterday by the Athurugiriya Police.

The Cultural Centre of the University of Ruhuna has organized “Mahendra Perera: An Introspection” event on November 6, 2025, at the Auditorium, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ruhuna from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

The strike of work by the University Teachers’ Association of Rajarata University reached the seventh day yesterday much to the anxiety of the students.

The South Asian Women in Media – Sri Lanka Chapter (SAWM–SL) held its Annual General Meeting recently at the Mandarina Hotel, Colombo, where Office Bearers were re-appointed and new members appointed to the Executive Committee to lead the organiz

The Coconut Cultivation Board announced that the government will provide a subsidy of Rs. 30,000 per acre to coconut growers in the newly established Northern Coconut Triangle.

Five persons who went for a bath at Deduru Oya have been washed away. It was reported yesterday.

A probation officer was arrested yesterday by Ampara Division Women and Children’s Bureau on suspicion of rape of two underage girls in a Home for the Children in Dehiattakandiya in Ampara.

Ambassador (Retd.) Ravinatha Aryasinha, former Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka, has been appointed Executive Director of the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS).

A British national Gareth Thompson (58), entered the order of Bhikkhus at Weliwatta Vijeyananda Pirivena temple by the name of Ven. Englanthaye Buddhdasa Thera.

The Sri Lanka State Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Corporation (SPMC) has suffered serious economic losses due to inefficiencies in supplying essential medicines and the use of substandard or expired imported chemical raw materials, the National Audit

Former General Manager of the Department of Railways S. M. Abeywickrama, who was arrested by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption in connection with the alleged unlawful employment of a suspended train driver, was releas

Ambassador of Russia Mr. Levan Dzhagaryan attended the Russian-Sri Lankan Joint Tactical Counter Exercise - WOLVERINE PATH 2025 (October 25 - November 04, 2025, Army Training School, Maduruoya).

A petition filed by a principal of a government school against his interdiction based on an audit query was upheld by Anuradhapura Predecessor High Court Judge (Monaragala present High Court Judge) Dr. Nalin Hewawasam, who ordered the reinstatement o

The government plans to offer local investors the opportunity to participate in the country’s cannabis cultivation project, which has so far been limited to foreign companies, Deputy Minister of Health Hansaka Wijemuni said.

Billions of rupees of taxpayers’ money have gone down the drain as hundreds of government doctors have deserted their posts and forfeited their foreign training opportunities.

Over 100,000 houses in Sri Lanka currently have been built using mud and rocks for walls and roofed with Palmyra leaves, cadjan or straws, highlighting the lack of weather–prone housing conditions, according to the Department of Census and Statisti

Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama yesterday imposed a three-month suspended prison sentence for five years and a fine of Rs.10,000 on a Saudi Arabian national who pleaded guilty to assaulting a Sri Lankan Airlines flight attendant on boa

Sri Lanka Customs revealed that the highest revenue had been generated through vehicle imports by October 14, 2025, which had earned Rs. 587.11 billion, constituting 37% of the total revenue by that date.

A number of former top government officials are now under the radar of the Bribery Commission over alleged corruption, as the Commission intensifies its probe into the misuse of public resources.

The SLIIT Alumni Association officially launched tickets for its highly anticipated annual Dinner Dance 2025 on October 27, 2025, at the SLIIT Malabe Campus. The event marked the beginning of celebrations for one of the most awaited gatherings in the

The Galaha police have initiated a formal investigation of the death of a female student of Bellwood Aesthetic Studies Institute in Gampola whose body was found hanging from roof of a hostel on Saturday evening(01)

A trader who had sold a bottle of drinking water for more than the maximum retail price was found guilty and fined Rs.500,000 by Nuwara Eliya magistrate.