Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army on Tuesday (15) presided a conference with the Chief Signal Officer, Director Information Technology and several other professional IT Officers on...
Sri Lanka’s Marine Environment Protection Authority said there is no oil leak from the Crude Oil Tanker ‘MT New Diamond’ which is currently ablaze in the seas off the Sangaman-kanda, in the east of...
The Police have failed to take action despite complaints concerning the demolition of the King’s Court of King Bhuvanaikabahu II in Kurunegala said Director-General of Archaeology – Prof. Senarath Dissanayake to News1st on Friday...
Fishermen claim the Ulhitiya-Ratkinda twin reservoir is contaminated by a certain chemical substance that they suspect is released to the reservoir from a farm owned by a multi-national company located close to the area....
Sri Lanka must set-up a domestic mechanism for accountability to address the harmful effects of the war, a UK human rights ambassador has said on behalf of the Core Group on Sri Lanka. The...
Wildlife officers have launched a probe into the death of an elephant that was shot dead in Ambanpola recently. There were two gun shot wounds — on the shoulder and the head — on the...
An independent candidate representing the Kurunegala district at this year’s election turned up at a media briefing with a serpent. R.M.S.P. Hunukumbura contesting the election from Kurunegala under the symbol of the spider identified...
Trade unions have blamed a “hidden entity” for obstructing the development of the East Terminal in the Colombo Port, in a bid to loot the funds of the project. “There are corrupt senior officials...
Saudi Arabia has banned international visitors from making the Islamic pilgrimage, or Hajj, this year in a bid to control corona virus. Only a very limited number of people currently living in the kingdom...
The Acting Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Hu Wei told President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, COVID-19 had made its way into Beijing recently through a consignment of salmon from Europe and not from person to person...
