The Intertropical Convergence Zone (where winds from the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere converge) further affects the island’s weather. Showers or thundershowers will occur at several ...

The government has officially declared National Vesak Week from May 10 to 16, with this year’s State Vesak Festival to be held in the Nuwara Eliya District. The celebrations will be organized by the ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to Pope Francis. Vatican ...

The Sri Lanka Navy joined hands with the Clean Sri Lanka Secretariat in post-event maintenance efforts at the historic Kandy Lake on Monday (28), following the major spiritual gathering of ‘Siri ...

Recovered from LTTE camps during war : Will be deposited at the Central Bank : The Sri Lanka Army yesterday handed over a stock of gold and silver to the police which had been held by the LTTE and ...

A suspect was arrested yesterday evening (May 2) in connection with the fatal shooting of Dan Priyasad, a local government election candidate representing the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP).

The Professional Web Journalists Association has strongly opposed a new directive from the Government Information Department requiring government-issued media accreditation for journalists to attend ...

Two of Sri Lanka’s leading rugby playing schools – S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia and Trinity College, Kandy – will battle it out for a place in the semi-finals of the Dialog President’s Trophy ...

A woman from the UK has become the oldest person in the world, at the age of 115 and 252 days. Ethel Caterham, who lives at a care home in Lightwater, Surrey, reached the milestone following the death ...

The Secretary General of Parliament, Mrs. Kushani Rohanadeera, stated that Parliament is scheduled to convene on May 8th and 9th. She further stated that the Parliamentary Business pertaining to the ...

For more than 750 years, strict rules have guarded what cardinals can and cannot eat to prevent hidden messages stuffed inside chicken, ravioli and napkins. This past week, travellers in Rome may have ...

The June 3 vote will decide who replaces impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol, who was removed from office ov his ill-fated declaration of martial law in December that sank South Korea into ...