Sri Lanka s new government has agreed to press ahead with a IMF bailout programme that involves tough austerity and economic reforms, the international lender announced on Saturday (Nov 23). MORE..
23 Nov 2024 (6:30 PM)
Two individuals were killed in an accident when a jeep traveling from Kuliyapitiya to Hettipola veered off the road and plunged into the Bujgamuwa Oya near the Kamburapola Bridge on the Kuliyapitiya-Hettipola road this morning (23). MORE..
23 Nov 2024 (12:27 PM)
Two Australian teenagers and a British woman died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. An American man and two Danes also died, though their exact causes of death have not been released. MORE..
23 Nov 2024 (11:32 AM)
Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said his successor Anura Kumara Dissanayake should fully implement the "vision document" adopted with India last year. MORE..
23 Nov 2024 (11:48 PM)
Valery Zaluzhny, former military Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine, believes World War III is underway, adding the direct involvement of Russian allies in the conflict indicates the same. MORE..
22 Nov 2024 (11:40 PM)
The Meteorology Department says showers or thundershowers will occur at times in the Northern, North-central and Eastern provinces. MORE..
23 Nov 2024 (9:45 AM)