Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas signed an agreement on Thursday (Oct 9) to cease fire and free Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, in the first phase of US President Donald Trump s initiative to end the war in Gaza. MORE..
9 Oct 2025 (9:54 PM)
Two individuals connected to a large-scale scam involving nearly Rs. 200 million, falsely promising jobs in European countries, have been arrested by officers of the Special Investigations Unit of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment. MORE..
9 Oct 2025 (2:39 PM)
It has been revealed that 60 percent of school students in Sri Lanka suffer from depression, according to recent research findings. MORE..
10 Oct 2025 (9:16 AM)
A total of 29 mobile phones have been recovered today from wards A, C, and D of the Boossa High-Security Prison, which houses some of Sri Lanka s most dangerous criminals. MORE..
9 Oct 2025 (2:54 PM)
The 2025 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian novelist who said his dark and difficult novels aim to examine reality "to the point of madness." MORE..
9 Oct 2025 (6:26 PM)
A total of 34,046 tourists have arrived in the country thus far in the month of October, data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) shows. MORE..
9 Oct 2025 (4:16 PM)