COLOMBO, May 25 -- Pakistan Army Chief, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, has concluded a brief but "highly productive" official visit to Iran, during which he held talks with senior Iranian leaders as p... Read More
COLOMBO, May 25 -- India on Monday (25) handed over a fleet of 134 single-cab vehicles to the Sri Lanka Police under a grant assistance program worth 300 million Sri Lankan rupees aimed at strengtheni... Read More
COLOMBO, May 25 -- Sri Lanka's Ambassador-designate to Ethiopia, Nirmala Paranavitana, held discussions with Somalia's Ambassador to Ethiopia, Abdullahi Mohamed Warfa, on bilateral cooperation and ong... Read More
COLOMBO, May 22 -- Sri Lanka's National Commission on Women (NCW) on Thursday (21) called for stronger legal, psychosocial and institutional protections for a child survivor at the centre of an allege... Read More
COLOMBO, May 15 -- Sri Lanka's Department of Meteorology on Friday (15) issued a red alert for heavy rainfall across several parts of the island as intense showers, rising river levels and flooding th... Read More
COLOMBO, May 15 -- Sri Lanka may have to seek an 18th program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as mounting external shocks threaten to undermine the country's fragile economic recovery ahead... Read More
COLOMBO, May 14 -- The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) directed all licensed banks to examine whether fraud similar to the alleged multi-billion-rupee misappropriation at the National Development Ban... Read More
COLOMBO, May 14 -- Indian Naval Ship Sunayna, deployed as IOS Sagar with a multinational crew representing 16 countries, is scheduled to arrive at the Port of Colombo on Friday (15) as part of India's... Read More
COLOMBO, May 14 -- The Colombo High Court on Thursday (14) rejected a preliminary objection raised by the defence in the money laundering case against Yoshitha Rajapaksa, the son of former President M... Read More
COLOMBO, May 14 -- Sri Lanka has recorded 27,754 dengue cases and 14 related deaths so far this year, health officials said, warning that the onset of monsoon rains could lead to a further surge in in... Read More