President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has advised relevant Ministry officials to allocate 11,000 acres of land belonging to the Kantale Sugar Company to farmers for the cultivation of short-term crops, the President s Media Division (PMD) said.
10 Oct 2024 (8:57 PM)
South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," the award-giving body said on Thursday. MORE..
10 Oct 2024 (6:19 PM)
Former Minister of State for Finance Shehan Semasinghe has announced that he will not be contesting in the upcoming parliamentary elections. MORE..
10 Oct 2024 (4:55 PM)
Indictments have been filed against former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Ajith Nivard Cabraal and three other defendants in a case filed against them alleging financial losses caused to the government of Sri Lanka through investments in Greek treasury bonds in 2012. MORE..
10 Oct 2024 (1:17 PM)
At a ceremony held today at Sri Lanka Air Force Base in Katunayake, U.S. Navy Admiral Steve Koehler, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, officially handed over a Beechcraft King Air 360ER aircraft, gifted by the United States, to the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF). MORE..
10 Oct 2024 (8:27 PM)
Gunmen invaded another town north of Haiti s capital on Thursday, shooting at people and setting homes on fire, just a week after a massacre killed at least 115 people in the country s central region. The number of casualties was not immediately known. MORE..
10 Oct 2024 (9:57 PM)