The draft resolution A'HRC'57'L.1 on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka has been adopted without a vote during the ongoing 57th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. MORE..
9 Oct 2024 (8:48 PM)
Ratan Tata, the former Tata Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate on the global stage with a string of high-profile acquisitions, has died, the Tata Group said in a statement late on Wednesday. He was 86. MORE..
10 Oct 2024 (3:14 AM)
The Panadura Magistrate today ordered (09) to remand the 20 Chinese nationals, who were arrested while staying at a hotel in the Gorakana area of Panadura for overstaying their visas, until October 23. MORE..
9 Oct 2024 (7:58 PM)
A search operation conducted by the Navy and Police Special Task Force (STF) has led to the arrest of a suspect with around 600,000 capsules of a prescription drug, commonly abused for intoxication, which were being transferred to sell. MORE..
9 Oct 2024 (11:57 PM)
The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka announced that Admiral Steve Koehler, a 4-star U.S. Navy Admiral and Commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet will visit Sri Lanka on October 10, marking the highest-level U.S. military visit to the country since 2021. MORE..
9 Oct 2024 (4:31 PM)
Scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the award-giving body said on Wednesday, for their work on the structure of proteins. MORE..
9 Oct 2024 (5:27 PM)