Month: January 2025

217 Articles
Sri Lanka

New circular tightens Sri Lanka’s diplomatic protocols

The government has introduced a comprehensive set of guidelines aimed at streamlining and ensuring coordinated communication between the state institutions and foreign entities....

Sri Lanka

Lalkantha says IMF wants to curtail public sector workforce

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has intimated that the government should look at reducing the bloated public sector, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Lands...

Sports

India offers unconditional support for Sri Lanka’s sports development

Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha has expressed India’s commitment to offer unconditional support for the development of sports in Sri...

World

HMPV virus: Three cases detected in India

India reported its first cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) in Bengaluru and Gujarat as three infants tested positive for the virus amid a...

Politics

No entry without an appointment!

A university academic who was appointed as the governor of a province made headlines recently for their strict adherence to rules. Known for...

Sri Lanka

‘No special treatment for Duminda Silva’ – Prison Media Spokesperson

Prison Media Spokesperson and Prison Commissioner Gamini B. Dissanayake said that Duminda Silva has not been given any special treatment in the prison...

Opinion

‘Clean Sri Lanka’ – a brilliant idea but the way the government is doing it raises eyebrows

By Chanaka Bandarage If the intention of the program is to make Sri Lanka clean, it is a fantastic idea. Sri Lanka is...

Lifestyle

Yureni on paying back karma (Video)

In old times, there was a saying that if a family has a beautiful daughter and an eloquent son, that family is lucky....

Sri Lanka

Dry rations for 500 farmers affected by adverse weather

Adverse weather conditions in Sri Lanka in the recent days have severely impacted vegetable farmers in the Nuwara Eliya District, leaving them in...

Sri Lanka

President AKD’s environment reinvigoration project questioned by activists as elephants suffer

The ambitious “Clean Sri Lanka” project of President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka with the tagline “Beautiful Island, Smiling People” launched on new year’s day...