The stunning electoral sweep of the National People s Power (NPP) led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is "an earthquake in Sri Lankan politics", says Erik Solheim, the former Norwegian peace facilitator in the island nation. MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (11:45 PM)
The strike action launched by all academic and non-academic trade unions and Students Unions affiliated with the University of Ruhuna yesterday, demanding the immediate removal of the university s Vice Chancellor, continued second consecutive day today (Nov. 20). MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (1:05 PM)
Former state minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pilleyan has arrived at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) this morning (20). MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (11:37 AM)
X-Press Feeders has hit out at the "bureaucratic and legal hurdles" that have caused severe delays in the case of the X-Press Pearl, a boxship that caught fire in 2021 causing one of Sri Lanka s worst-ever environmental disasters. MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (5:07 PM)
The Court of Appeal has upheld the death sentence given to Geeganagamage Amarasiri alias Julampitiye Amare who was accused of shooting and killing of two persons at a JVP rally in June 2012. MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (6:07 PM)
The National People s Power (NPP) has convened its newly-elected Members of Parliament (MPs) at the party headquarters in Pelawatte today (20) for an orientation session ahead of their parliamentary duties. MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (2:41 PM)