Sudanese paramilitary drone attack kills 50, including 33 children in Kordofan
A drone attack by the Sudanese paramilitary forces hit a kindergarten in south-central Sudan, killing 50 people, including 33 children, a doctors’ group...
A national disaster and a national reckoning
By Vox Civis Whichever way one chooses to tilt the lens, the hard truth refuses to blur: the government failed to protect its...
‘Sri Lanka Day’ celebration cancelled
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has ordered, in view of the disaster situation, the cancellation of the ‘Sri Lanka Day’ due to take place...
NPP MP asks police to be lenient to arrested suspect
National People’s Power (NPP) MP Kitnan Selvaraj has influenced the police after the arrest of a man accused of illegal tree felling, according...
Sri Lanka has fallen to a beggarly situation- Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe
Foreign aid has been minimal when compared to the magnitude of the natural disaster faced by Sri Lanka, said former minister Dr. Wijeyadasa...
2026 Football World Cup draw
The U.S. capital played host to the draw for the 2026 World Cup, revealing the groups, matchups and venues for next summer’s tournament...
Eastern Province faces widespread blackouts after transmission tower collapses
A major transmission tower collapse on the 132-kilovolt Rantambe–Mahiyanganaya line caused the most severe damage to Sri Lanka’s electricity grid during Cyclone Ditwah,...
Sri Lanka to grant Rs. 5 million for homes destroyed by Cyclone Ditwa
Sri Lanka will provide Rs. 5 million to each household whose home was destroyed in flooding or landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwa, President...
UNESCO asked to intervene in illegal road threatening Knuckles Forest
An environmental watchdog has asked UNESCO to intervene urgently to stop what it says is an unlawful road being carved through the Knuckles...
