Lanka Coal Company (Pvt) Ltd (LCC) has extended its bid closing date for the emergency procurement of 300,000MT of coal, as an emergency hasn’t yet arisen, authoritative sources told the Sunday Times.

Sri Lanka took three actions in the wake of Easter Sunday attacks. It increased the military presence, arrested suspects linked to National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) and banned extremist groups. Zahran ...

Three Churches and four Hotels in Colombo,Negombo and Batticaloa were attacked in the morning of 21st April 2019 (Easter Sunday) by suicide bombers belonging to an Islamic radical group. 270 persons ...

The ongoing marital dispute between Tamil actor and politician Vijay and his wife Sangeetha Sornalingam has taken a fresh turn, with his estranged wife filing a new petition in court seeking ...

After the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran last week, Colombo called on “all concerned parties to exercise maximum restraint” and to de-escalate tensions. The government has so far not ...

A second Iranian warship is heading towards Sri Lanka’s territorial waters, the same area where a US submarine destroyed an Iranian frigate yesterday. Sri Lanka’s media minister Nalinda Jayatissa said ...

“There is a drop in performance [at Lakvijaya],” Energy Ministry Secretary K.T.M. Hemapala told the Sunday Times. “We have to acknowledge it. The energy the plant usually supplies the grid is 810 MW ...

But most baffling and paradoxical is the inaction of current President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to implement change at SLC despite being a vocal critic against the conduct of cricket officials when he ...

As illegal development activity on Mandaitivu linked to the Jaffna International Cricket Stadium of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) was halted by the country’s environmental watchdog, a powerful call went out ...

The provincial councils scheme , implemented since 1988, has seen a number of chief ministers being elected by the various provincial councils over the years. Although the norm has been for each ...

The Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi(ITAK)known in English as the Federal Party(FP) is in the eye of a legal storm. The premier political party representing the Sri Lankan Tamils of the Northern and ...

Sri Lanka is experiencing a tremendous economic crisis. Several knowledgeable persons describe the current period as the worst ever phase in the Island nation’s post-Independence history. Many acts of ...