The US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, has been hit by a missile – video shows fire and smoke rising in the aftermath. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump says “every military target” on Iran’s key oil island ...

The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) has issued a public advisory urging internet users to exercise caution when engaging with online advertisements in the run-up to the festive ...

The Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), the country’s leading provider of non-state higher education, successfully concluded its March 2026 Convocation. The event recognized over ...

During an operation conducted in the dark hours of 11 Mar 26, the Sri Lanka Navy seized an Indian fishing boat and apprehended 02 Indian fishermen while they were poaching in Sri Lankan waters, in the ...

Salman Ali Agha said that he would have done things ‘differently”, after Mehidy Hasan Miraz ran him out in controversial circumstances in the second ODI in Dhaka. Agha, who made 64 from 62 balls, had ...

Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre of the Department of  Meteorology at 3.30 p.m. on 13 March 2026, valid for 14 March 2026. The public are warned that the Heat ...

WEATHER FORECAST FOR 14 MARCH 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 14 March 2026 by the Department of  Meteorology  Misty conditions can be expected at some places in the Central, Sabaragamuwa and Uva ...

Sun Siyam Pasikudah, the boutique luxury resort that earned the Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best award in 2025 and was named the Best Global Hotel Design winner at the Homes & Gardens ...

A guitar used by David Gilmour on six of Pink Floyd’s albums has sold for a record $14.6m (£10.9m), making it the most expensive guitar ever sold, auction house Christie’s has said. Gilmour played the ...

The Department of Cultural Affairs said that a discussion will be held next Monday, under the patronage of the subject Minister, Hiniduma Sunil Senevi, to prepare the auspicious times (nekath) sheet ...

The Ambassador of the Netherlands to Sri Lanka, Wiebe de Boer, visited Kandy on Thursday (12) afternoon to pay his respects to the Most Venerable Mahanayaka Theras of the Malwatte and Asgiriya ...

Some prominent astrologers are up in arms, claiming that the JVP-NPP government has not officially recognised the list of traditional New Year auspicious times or the nekath seettuwa they have ...