The Finance Ministry says there are no plans to revise public sector salaries and other allowance scales apart from what has been announced through Budget 2025. A senior Finance Ministry source said ...

A global Twenty20 league bankrolled by Saudi Arabia has been devised by an influential Australian cricket figure in what could be one of the most significant developments in the game in decades. The ...

Sri Lankan born Fredrick James Koch has been recognised in the United Kingdom with major music chart success. The song ‘Paralysed’ sung by Fred Koch with the legendary Australian Dance/Pop producer ...

Hollywood action comedy drama film ‘Novocaine’, revolving around a mild-mannered introvert with a rare disorder, congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is now being screened in Cinema in and around ...

Award winning tele and cinema actor, television producer and teledrama director, Pradeep Dharmadasa’s debut film ‘Ice Cream’ is now being screened at MPI Circuit Cinemas including Lite cinemas around ...

As the Oasis reunion tour draws near this year, the children of Noel and Liam Gallagher have been featured in a commercial for a smartphone. Anais, Molly and Gene were seen were used to advertise one ...

Sri Lanka is speeding up the establishment of a Casino Regulatory Authority to manage online gambling issues, tax avoidance, and laundering of money. A senior Finance Ministry official emphasised that ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met with a delegation from the Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) at the Presidential Secretariat on Thursday to discuss issues academics face.

A proposal for establishing an Education Council which will serve as the pivotal body in making important decisions in the sector will be presented to the Cabinet this week, Deputy Minister of ...

To be perfectly clear, this is not simply a word play on the United National Party’s (UNP) party symbol and its ruthless state-terror tactics to quell the South’s ...

As usual, International Women’s Day was celebrated on a grand scale here in Sri Lanka and abroad. 5-star hotel tamashas and extravagant events were held with a determination to help women achieve ...

A child in Dambulla is seen ticking off a macaque in his form for the first-ever census on selected animals causing problems to agriculture crops conducted yesterday from 8 to 8.05am. Pic by Kanchana ...