The upgraded Maho–Omanthai railway line and newly installed Maho–Anuradhapura railway signalling system were officially inaugurated today (06) by President Anura Kumara Disanayake and Indian Prime ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, currently on an official visit to Sri Lanka, met with Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday (5) in Colombo. The meeting marked a key moment in fostering ...

Showers or thundershowers will occur at most places of the island during the afternoon or night. Showers may occur in the coastal areas of Western and Southern provinces and in Puttalam, Mannar, ...

Three key development projects, supported by the Government of India, were officially inaugurated yesterday (April 5) in Sri Lanka in conjunction with the state visit of Indian Prime Minister Shri ...

A 26-member medical and special relief team from Sri Lanka’s tri-forces, led by Brigadier Punya Karunathilaka, departed for Myanmar today (April 5) aboard a special flight to assist those affected by ...

In a significant step towards strengthening Indo-Sri Lankan relations, seven Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were exchanged between India and Sri Lanka today (April 5), in the presence of Sri Lankan ...

If there is to be a land where the sacred and the secular can co-exist as convenient and comfortable as Bharat then it should be a civilisation where spirituality walks hand in hand with humanity.

Lakshman Kadirgamar once described India–Sri Lanka relations as one of “irreversible excellence.” Unfortunately, under some governments, they have been neither irreversible nor excellent. In ...

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a total of 59 petitions including 53 writ petitions and six Fundamental Rights applications filed by various political parties and independent groups. These ...

That blinked and shone ever so bright. And felt unseen hands try to embrace me. Bathed in perspiration, I felt trapped. Instinct told me I should not linger, that I was in danger.

The Colombo High Court yesterday served indictments to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s second son Yoshitha Rajapaksa and his grandaunt Daisy Forrest Wickramasinghe over a case filed under the ...

Ven. Siri Vajiraramaye Nanasinha Thera recently completed his 90th birthday. His father and mother were respectively R.G. James Gunasekera of Telijjavila, Matara District, and Seela Gunasekera (née ...