Four police officers from Bentota Police Station were injured when they went to settle a dispute during a carnival in Bentota.
These police officers were attacked by youth with sticks, clubs, and helmets on Sunday. (13).
The injured police officials have...
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka, India, and Japan: Until recently, a partnership involving these three countries may have merited little consideration. But Sri Lanka’s economic collapse last year, China’s refusal to help, and India’s rescue act have brought this issue to...
Hailing the role of New Delhi in Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring, Japanese Ambassador to India Hiroshi Suzuki said that India’s issuance of financing assurances to the island nation at the time of its economic crisis was instrumental in accelerating...
Former Bribery Commission Director General Dilrukshi Dias Wickremasinghe, who was interdicted in connection with a controversial audio tape involving businessman Nissanka Senadhipathi, has been acquitted by the Public Services Commission (PSC).
The PSC has arrived at this decision based on...
Country reviewing law, with an eye to adding small reactors
Atomic energy minister Singh comments in reply to parliament
The Norora Atomic Power Station near Norora, India.
By Rajesh Kumar Singh
India’s state-controlled nuclear power industry is considering allowing greater participation of...
South Korea will evacuate tens of thousands of scouts by bus from a coastal jamboree site as Tropical Storm Khanun looms, officials said Monday.
More than 1,000 vehicles will be used starting Tuesday morning to move 36,000 scouts—mostly teenagers—from the...
SJB MP Eran Wickramaratne yesterday said that the health sector has become a death trap for patients. "Importation of inferior medicine in the guise of emergency purchasing and non-functioning medical, surgical, and other test equipment in hospitals has pushed...
Police have arrested Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the eastern city of Lahore after a Pakistani trial court sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts.
The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was accused of misusing his...
Minister of State in the Cabinet Office of Japan, Fujimura Satoshi, and
former Minister of State for Regional Revitalization and Regulatory
Reform Yamamoto Kozo called on President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat today (31).
During the meeting, they discussed the stalled...
The SJB and Jathika Janabalawegaya have reportedly taken a decision to boycott the All Party Conference convened by the President to make political party leaders aware of the National Reconciliation Programme expected to be implemented by the government.
The APC...
Shri Arindam Bagchi, Official Spokesperson:
A very good afternoon to all of you. Thank you for joining us for the special media briefing on the occasion of the visit of the Honorable President of Sri Lanka. To give us a...
Train services on the renovated railway line from Anuradhapura to Omanthai, which was closed for the last six months due to modernization, will resume July 15.
The railway line was officially opened (14) by Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardena.
The railway line...
