Veteran cinema, theater and television actor Suminda Sirisena passed away this morning (04) at the age of 75.
Ten leading businessmen have defaulted loan repayments to the tune of Rs. 80 billion to two state banks, said secretary of the Ceylon Bank Employees Union Ranjan Senanayake.
The Meteorology Department says showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Northern, Southern and North-western provinces while fairly heavy showers above 75 mm are likely at some places.
The Asian Human Resource Bank has agreed to provide internship training in three higher education institutions in Japan annually to 70 university students studying agriculture in Sri Lankan universities.
At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) held in Dubai, UAE, President Ranil Wickremesinghe unveiled the ground-breaking Tropical Belt Initiative, a visionary plan aimed at addressing the challenges of global warming and securing sustainable development for nations within the tropical belt.
Yet another political alliance is being finalized by the faction headed by MP Anura Priyadarshana Yapa.
Dappula de Livera, the attorney general during the Gotabaya Rajapaksa rule, has claimed a mastermind behind the Easter Sunday terror attacks after he was denied one-year service extension, claimed justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe.
Victims of workplace sexual harassment face three main barriers when seeking justice in Sri Lanka, according to a new study by the Law and Governance Division of Verité Research.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), launched the Electricity Dispatch Database and Dashboard, an online platform to enhance transparency in the management of Sri Lanka’s power distribution through a visualization platform.
A senior Tamil media editor was questioned by Sri Lanka’s Counter Terrorism Investigation Department (CITD), dubbed the ‘terror police’ by local rights activists, for over four hours for publishing a news item in 2020.
