The President of the Free Lawyers Organisation, President s Counsel Maithri Gunaratne, has claimed that both the President and the Secretary to the Finance Ministry should be held responsible over the disappearance of a USD 2.5 million payment owed to Australia. MORE..
23 Apr 2026 (8:51 PM)
A warm weather advisory has been issued for residents of the Northern, North-Central, North-Western, Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and Eastern provinces and the Monaragala district. MORE..
23 Apr 2026 (5:39 PM)
The US military on Thursday seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil, ratcheting up a standoff with Iran a day after its paramilitary Revolutionary Guards took control of two vessels in the crucial Strait of Hormuz. MORE..
23 Apr 2026 (8:30 PM)
A 13-year-old boy, identified as Sithula Nimsath, a resident of Pahala Imbulgoda in Gampaha, has been reported missing since yesterday (22), according to his relatives. MORE..
23 Apr 2026 (3:19 PM)
China s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is far more ambitious than the ports, railways and highways that it is often reduced to in Western commentary, said Hussein Askary, a prominent Iraqi-Swedish scholar of international relations and geo-economics. MORE..
23 Apr 2026 (5:53 PM)
In the US, Fox News says President Trump told presenter Martha MacCallum that there is no time pressure on his extension to the ceasefire with Iran. MORE..
23 Apr 2026 (4:20 PM)