President Anura Kumara Dissanayake swore in a 21-Member Cabinet at the Presidential Secretariat on Monday (18). President ...

Chinese Dragon Café, Sri Lanka’s pioneering Chinese restaurant chain, recently celebrated its 82nd anniversary. The restaurant was founded in 1942 in Bambalapitiya by a Chinese couple who brought ...

The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) has requested the newly appointed Health Minister, Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa, to urgently look into providing tax relief to doctors. The GMOA made the ...

Another student from the Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) succumbed to injuries yesterday, three weeks after an accident in Badulla that killed two female students and injured 42. The latest victim ...

The Government of Switzerland, through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), successfully concluded the Safe Labour Migration Programme (SLMP) in Sri Lanka after 14 years of ...

At least two local large private banks have set their radar on expansions with a keen interest in growing their local operations on the back of optimism of robust economic growth next year. The ...

Cabinet and deputy ministers will use official vehicles used by ministers in the previous government, while all other government MPs will also be given an official “non-luxury, fuel-efficient” vehicle ...

Having developed a popular online website on Lankan coins (coins.lakdiva.org.lk) I have frequently been urged to compile a book. However, I have remained focused on the digital domain, avoiding the ...

The transition in Sri Lanka’s political setting has triggered a high alert in banks and financial institutions cautious about transaction spikes among Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) accounts, ...

Jayantha Silva, an old boy of St. Peter’s College, Bambalapitiya, has always been a doodler. His Montessori teacher would say on his report card that he was excellent at art but “unfortunately he ...

Rajagala, or Raassagala as it was once known, is a place shrouded in mystery. Though officially discovered in the 1890s, the major part remains unexcavated – this despite the countless stupas already ...