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Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera will visit Sri Lanka from August 20 to 22. It will be the first time ever for a Japanese Defense Minister to visit Sri Lanka. During his visit he will hold talks with State Minister of Defense, Ruwan Wijewardene and ot...
The open economy has destroyed the social norms and values practiced by the people of this country, Colombo’s Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith said. He said this at the festive mass of Our Lady of Madu earlier this week. “Open economy has destroyed thi...
At least 324 people have been killed in flooding in the southern Indian state of Kerala in what local officials say is the worst flooding in 100 years. India’s monsoon season started in June, but the death toll in Kerala has soared in the past 24 hours. R...
Italian President Sergio Mattarella is due to preside over a state funeral for 18 of the victims of Tuesday’s bridge collapse in Genoa. Mr Mattarella and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will lead mourners at the ceremony at a hall in the city. So far 38 peo...
England all-rounder Ben Stokes is “desperate” to move on from his trial for affray, says captain Joe Root. Stokes, 27, was found not guilty on Tuesday and will return to the England team for the third Test against India at Trent Bridge, which starts... Srilanka News »
Several candidates have lost the opportunity to sit for two subject papers with the alleged bungling of the GCE Advanced Level examination timetable, it is learnt. The tim...
The Standing Committee on Finance of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has approved the increase in the basic allowance of a member by 125 percent following a proposal s...
Some legal experts are of the opinion that there former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is not debarred from contesting the Presidential Election for the third time, it is lea...
As a result of the ongoing special operations conducted in the North to apprehend and control the sword gangs, 17 persons have been arrested from the Manippai area, accord...
A special police team has commenced investigations into an alleged plot to kill legendary racing driver Dilantha Malagamuwa. The police have initiated the probe following ...-
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Ahead of the DMK’s emergency executive council meeting slated today (Tuesday), late party leader M. Karunanidhi’s son M.K. Alagiri yesterday (Monday) raised a banner of re...
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday (Sunday) conducted an aerial survey of flood-ravaged Kerala and announced an immediate relief of ₹100 crore as the State braced...
V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing in such novels as A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas and brittle, misanthropic...
The Chennai police on Thursday arrested May 17 Movement co-ordinator Thirumurugan Gandhi in Bengaluru International Airport on charges of sedition. He has been actively ca...
The poignant scenes and emotional moments witnessed during the funeral of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi at Anna Memorial here yesterday (Wednesday) evening brought to the fore ...World News »
A former adviser to Donald Trump has released what she says is a tape of a phone call from the US president after her dismissal last year. In the tape played on US TV chan...
At least 39 people – including 12 children – have been killed in a blast that brought down a building in Syria’s mainly rebel-held north-western province...
A man who stole an empty passenger plane from Seattle airport and then crashed it was an airline worker with full credentials, authorities say. The 29-year-old had worked ...
Researchers in Crimea have uncovered a riveting archaeological find not far from the Sevastopol coastline. At the mouth of the usually busy and picturesque Balaklava Gulf,...
The US has said it will impose fresh sanctions on Russia after determining it used nerve agent against a former Russian double agent living in the UK. Sergei Skripal and h...Britain News »
Britain has demanded that Russia provide details about the Novichok nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter after two British citizens were struck dow...
Hong Kong’s top court ruled on Wednesday (July 4) that a British lesbian should be granted a spousal visa, in a landmark judgment that could open the door for expatr...
The UK saw another hot day on Friday (June 29) with temperatures reaching 27C (80.6F) in the capital. The heatwave brought out office workers and sunbathers in London, who...
The British Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill on the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union. The EU Withdrawal Bill had gone through rounds of debate in the Bri...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth attended the Garter Day ceremony at St. George’s Chapel near Windsor Castle on Monday (June 16), along with other members of the roya...Europe News »
French police have searched the apartment block of a suspect shot and arrested on Wednesday after he ‘deliberately’ rammed his car into a group of soldiers, injuring six o...
An AtlasGlobal Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport on Thursday (July 27) after being hit by hailstones during a frea...
A freak storm swept through Istanbul on Thursday (July 27), unleashing heavy rain and hail that flooded roads, felled trees and brought air traffic and transport to a stan...
At least 48 people have been injured, five of them seriously, after a train crashed at a station in the Spanish city of Barcelona, officials say. The incident happened dur...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan rebuked Germany on Sunday (July 23), saying German politicians should not make threats based on “false news”, as a row between...Sports News »
Criticism of Manchester City and England winger Raheem Sterling is motivated by racism, says former Arsenal striker Ian Wright. Sterling, 23, has faced frequent media disa...
American Brooks Koepka won his second major of 2018 by seeing off a resurgent Tiger Woods to claim the US PGA Championship on a compelling final day. The US Open champion,...
Sevilla say they could withdraw from Sunday’s Spanish Super Cup if opponents Barcelona name more than three non-European Union players for the match. The Spanish foo...
The French pairing of Kevin Peponnet and Jeremie Mion took the gold medal in the 470 class at the Sailing World Championships in Aarhus on Thursday (August 9). The pair fo...
Chelsea have signed Kepa Arrizabalaga from Athletic Bilbao for £71m – the highest fee ever paid for a goalkeeper, and a club record transfer. Kepa, 23, arrives at St...Canadian News »
The Government of Canada and the Blood Tribe signed a memorandum of understanding on reconciliation (MOU) in Lethbridge on Thursday. The move was seen by some as a critica...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau celebrated Canada Day with a visit to a Canadian tomato paste production facility on Sunday (July 1), the same day Canadian retaliat...
Canada Friday announced it will impose about 12.6 billion US dollars worth of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods from July 1 in the wake of trade tensions with Washington. ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday (June 20) said he doubted whether U.S. President Donald Trump would carry out a threat to impose tariffs on autos, give...
The Conservatives have stolen a Quebec riding away from Justin Trudeau’s ruling Liberals, in the first test of Andrew Scheer’s effort to recreate the nationali...Technology »
The recent demonstration of the Cheetah 3 model demonstrates a few different improvements. First is the robot’s ability to navigate while effectively blind. Instead ...
ELON Musk has waived his magic wand over the troubled Model 3 and imbued it with a new hi-tech feature. Tesla has announced that it has installed the electric car company’...
Google is helping to fuel the podcast surge with its first dedicated podcast app. Unlike the iOS platform which has Apple’s native Podcasts app, Android users have l...
Facebook Inc co-founder Mark Zuckerberg came within a whisker of leapfrogging Warren Buffett as the world’s third-richest person on June 20. Zuckerberg, more than a half-...
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear Apple Inc’s bid to kill an antitrust lawsuit over the market for iPhone apps in a case that could shield e-commerce companies from cons...-
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Sri Lanka has hired Singapore government-owned Surbana Jurong for $990,000 to draw up plans for urban development around a Chinese-funded Special Economic Zone that will s...
Co-operative Wholesale Establishment Chairman T.M.K.B. Tennakoon said that the price of eight types of rice and sprats will reduce from midnight, today. President Maithrip...
IPhone 8 launch is nearly upon us as Apple has sent out press invites for an event at the new Steve Jobs Theater at its new ‘spaceship’ campus in Cupertino, Ca...
Council revised rates on 19 services on Saturday, including reducing the job work rate in the textiles sector to 5% from 18%, as finance minister Arun Jaitley appealed to ...
The latest tender called for the redevelopment and upgrading of Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA)’s Aviation Refuelling Terminal and the existing Fuel Hydrant syste...
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