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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe would have a discussion with the Indian authorities on the alleged plot to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena, a Spokesman from the Prime Minister’s office said yesterday (Thursday). He said the Prime Minister had dec...
The United National Party (UNP) said it had identified 25 of its electoral organizers to be axed under its reorganization programme, it is learnt. According to sources, the UNP would dispense with its organizers identified as weak in the reorganization process....
Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami yesterday (Wednesday) wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a direction to the Ministry of External Affairs to register India’s strong protest with the Sri Lankan government at the highest level in connection with...
The US has asked Turkey for a recording said to provide strong evidence that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at Istanbul’s Saudi consulate. “We have asked for it, if it exists,” President Donald Trump told reporters at the White Ho...
England outclassed Sri Lanka to win a rain-affected third one-day international by seven wickets and take a 2-0 series lead with two games left. The match was reduced to 21 overs per side after a six-hour rain delay. Sri Lanka slipped from 57-0 to make 150-9, w... Srilanka News »
President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe are reported to have had a showdown at yesterday’s (Tuesday) Cabinet meeting over the proposal to de...
Sugar Importers’ Association yesterday (Monday) said that they would have to stop importing sugar temporarily, due to world market and Indian market sugar price hike...
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will visit New Delhi later this week and meet his counterpart Narendra Modi to discuss bilateral matters, official sources in Colombo s...
Stating that the global economic crisis is turning to the worse, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (Sunday) stressed that government expected support of everyo...
Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama said yesterday (Sunday) further import cuts would not be necessary unless there was a sharp ri...-
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Granting bail to S. Subair, an accused in the murder of Hindu Munnani leader Sasikumar, the Madras High Court has held that investigating agencies cannot file chargesheets...
A blast at Steel Authority of India‘s plant in central state of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday (October 09) killed at least six people, a police official said. State-run SA...
Justice Ranjan Gogoi today took charge as the Chief Justice of India. Justice Gogoi was administered the oath of office by President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan ...
M.K. Stalin, the president of Tami Nadu opposition DMK was on Wednesday admitted to the Apollo Hospitals in Chennai for treatment. Sources said he may undergo a minor surg...
The DMK and the Congress were fully responsible for the genocide of a large number of Tamils during the final phase of the Eelam war in Sri Lanka, and should be booked for...World News »
The bodies of nine climbers who died when a violent snowstorm destroyed their camp on a Himalayan peak in Nepal have been retrieved. The five South Koreans and four Nepali...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang in a gesture designed to highlight peace efforts on the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s presi...
The World Court ordered the United States on Wednesday to ensure that sanctions against Iran do not impact humanitarian aid or civil aviation safety. Judges at the Interna...
Leaders and senior officials from the globe have voiced their opposition to U.S.-led unilateralism and trade protectionism during the 73rd session of the United Nations Ge...
While speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday (September 26), Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he is willing to meet with U.S. Pre...Britain News »
Prime Minister Theresa May signalled on Tuesday (September 25) that she would prefer a ‘no-deal’ Brexit to the offer currently put forward by the European Unio...
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...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 »
The Seattle Seahawks dominated the Oakland Raiders to run out 27-3 winners in the first game of the 2018 International Series at Wembley. Seahawks quarterback Russell Wils...
Three cities in Senegal will host the fourth edition of the Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Monday (October 8). ...
Argentina is preparing to host the the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, which will begin on Saturday (October 6) with an unprecedented opening ceremony to be held at Buenos Aires...
Germany’s Alexander Zverev opened his campaign at the China Open in Beijing with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Roberto Bautista Agut on Tuesday (October 2). Tournament second ...
Triple Olympic medallist Will Claye was cleared of wrongdoing after returning a positive doping test that was determined to be the result of contaminated meat he consumed ...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’s Tourism Minister, John Amaratunga on Wednesday said the government hoped to attract at least 3 million tourists in 2019, making Sri Lanka one of the most...
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 ...
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