Iran said on Monday it is keeping communications open with the U.S. as President Donald Trump weighed responses to a deadly crackdown on nationwide protests, which pose one of the stiffest challenges to clerical rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. MORE..
12 Jan 2026 (10:12 PM)
An Indian rocket carrying 16 loads of equipment and experiments including an earth surveillance satellite went off track after liftoff on Monday in a fresh setback to the workhorse launch vehicle of the Indian Space Research Organisation. MORE..
12 Jan 2026 (7:27 PM)
The government is hoping to finalize the agreement related to the SINOPEC Oil Refinery Project in Hambantota in the first quarter of 2026. MORE..
12 Jan 2026 (7:43 PM)
Representatives of community-based financial societies have opposed the move to bring all microfinance and credit-providing institutions under a single regulatory authority through the enactment of the Microfinance and Credit Regulatory Authority Bill. MORE..
12 Jan 2026 (4:46 PM)
The Parliamentary Secretariat has refuted news articles circulated in media under the headline "Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne has decided to take strict action regarding a group of employees using drugs, alcohol and cigarettes within the Parliamentary premises." MORE..
12 Jan 2026 (8:27 PM)
The highest temperature recorded in the country today (12) was 31.5°C, reported from the Katunayake Meteorological Station, the Department of Meteorology noted. MORE..
12 Jan 2026 (8:56 PM)