Sri Lanka’s new leader must avoid scandals and pursue domestic and foreign policies that centre on improving the island’s ...

Methamphetamine drug trafficking network spans multiple regions and involves many individuals and organisations across the ...

The Cabinet has approved the implementation of a rural roads enhancement and upgrading programme in the Northern and Eastern ...

SEOUL -- A 139-ton fishing vessel sank off the coast near South Korea's Yeosu on Sunday, leaving four dead and five missing, according to Yonhap news agency.

MYGroup, a UK-based waste management and recycling company, is launching a sustainable textile project in Sri Lanka, designed ...

KHARTOUM -- At least 45 civilians were killed and 82 others injured in a shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Saturday on a crowded market in Omdurman, north of the Sudanese ...

By Pradeep Prasanna Samarakoon Sri Lanka is facing a increase in low birth weight babies and infant mortality, with an estimated 2,500 infants dying annually before their first birthday, according to ...

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s eastern province of Aceh on the evening of January 31, according to the country’s Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Friday assured the northern Tamils that their lands held by the military would be fully returned back to them soon. Dissanayake was visiting Jaffna, the northern ...

The JVP’s leaders must stop viewing the Provincial Councils as a creation of India, which holds good for the Accord and 13A too ...

The District Industries and Export Promotion Committee (DIEPC) met at the collectorate here Wednesday (January 29). District Collector T.S. Chetan highlighted the need for accelerating industrial ...