A team of ten British and Netherlands experts, including salvage operation experts, assessors and a legal adviser arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday (6) under the facilitation of the company that works as the commercial and technical operator of MT...
Attorney General Dappula De Livera has requested for a full assessment on the MT New Diamond that caught fire on Thursday morning (3) as Sri Lanka Navy announced that the fire was completely contained.
State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne told media...
Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) together with vessels from Russia and India are continuing its fire dousing operation aboard the MT New Diamond that caught fire yesterday (3) at 8.00am.
“We have rescued 22 of the 23 crew members who were...
The prevailing rainy conditions will continue till tomorrow (3) especially in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern, Central and North-Western provinces, Duty officer at the Department of Meteorology said.
Three people were injured and 260 houses were damaged, while 125 people were...
Users around the world are left out of Gmail and Google Drive as a result of some errors, Counterpoint learns.
The issue seem to be reported from across the world.
Foriegn media reported that Google's engineering team is investigating the problem.
Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka has called for an investigation from the Ceylon Electricity Board regarding the current power failure.
The CEB was asked to submit the investigation report within 3 days on the island wide power failure occurred...
‘So Sri Lanka- Wild Guides’, the film created by Wunderman Thompson’s for Sri Lanka Tourism brought home the award for ‘Best Viral Film’ at the Brand Film Awards in London.
The news comes shortly after the country was endowed with...
Sri Lanka’s new cabinet of ministers and state ministers are taking oaths at the historic Magul Maduwa in Kandy under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The cabinet is limited to 28 ministries and 40...
Firecrackers were set off as supported of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) celebrated its landslide victory at the 2020 parliamentary election.
The SLPP won a total of 145 seats, and therefore received a majority in the new parliament that...
The parliamentary elections, the first major election held during the pandemic in South Asia, concluded with an average of 70 per cent voter turnout.
“It is a very successful election and a good turnout,” an Election Commission official told...
By Ram Madhav
The long-suppressed soul of the Indian nation finds utterance in the form of these two historical symbols of Hindu faith.
Keywords: Shri Ram Janmabhoomi | Babri Mosque | Secularism | Hindu Reassertion | Arnold Toynbee | Alexander Nevsky...
A massive blast has left hundreds of people wounded in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, foreign media reports.
The cause of the blast is yet to be known.
According to Lebanon’s state news agency NNA the blast has taken place in...
