The 88th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and religious leader of the Tibetan people, who is respected by the whole world, a Buddhist monk with a heart filled with kindness, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was held in the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka on July 06.

The post of police chief remains vacant from June 25, when C.D. Wickramaratne completed his three-month service extension.

An extremist political party is using the issue of religious places in the north to “do things that should not happen in a country”, said state defence minister Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon.

A court in Mannar has called for an investigation report into what is claimed to be the country’s biggest mass grave found five years ago.

No repairs have been done so far to a linear accelerator machine at Apeksha Hospital in Maharagama that malfunctioned two weeks ago.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized the importance of collaborative efforts among all countries representing the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) to develop the BIMSTEC region into a thriving tourism hub, transcending national borders.

New Delhi: India plans to allow Sri Lanka up to 12 years to repay its debt to help ease the financial burden on the island-nation, India’s Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) Ltd’s chairman-cum-managing director M.Senthilnathan said.

Sri Lanka has rejected key recommendations made by the UN member states at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the island nation placed before the 53rd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Human skeletal remains and pieces of clothing were found from a suspected mass grave in Mullaitivu on the first day of excavations yesterday (06).

Three people have been arrested in Moratuwa with a new type of narcotic drug in their possession by the Central Anti-Corruption Task Force (CACTF) at Walana in Panadura.