Monday 28th August, 2023
There are no signs of the skies opening up anytime soon to end the prevailing drought. The Meteorological Department announced yesterday that some parts of the country might experience scattered showers but there would be no...
Heat index Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre At 07.30 p.m. 26 August 2023, valid for 27 August 2023
Heat index, the temperature felt on human body is expected to increase up to ‘Caution’ level at some...
A fire on a train carriage has killed nine people in India, after a gas canister used by passengers to make drinks exploded, officials say.
Nine others were injured in the fire, which occurred in the southern city of Madurai...
By Saman Indrajith
Successive governments had not followed national disaster guidelines formulated after the 2004 tsunami disaster, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament yesterday (25).The Minister said so, making a statement on the status of litigation on the X-Press...
By Saman Indrajith
Successive governments had not followed national disaster guidelines formulated after the 2004 tsunami disaster, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament yesterday (25).The Minister said so, making a statement on the status of litigation on the X-Press...
By Saman Indrajith
Successive governments had not followed national disaster guidelines formulated after the 2004 tsunami disaster, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament yesterday (25).The Minister said so, making a statement on the status of litigation on the X-Press...
Former President Donald Trump turned himself in on Thursday at the Fulton County jail on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgia’s 2020 election results, marking the fourth time this year the former president...
The United Kingdom has made medical history with doctors carrying out the country’s first womb transplant.
Surgeons at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford successfully transplanted a sister’s womb to her 34-year-old sibling in an operation that lasted nine hours and...
Herath asks whether govt. wants to pave the way for new player
By Shamindra Ferdinando
The Cabinet-approved national energy policy related to the development of natural gas infrastructure has been suspended by the government following representations made by Power and Energy...
Cambodia’s national assembly has officially elected the eldest son of outgoing premier Hun Sen to be the country’s new prime minister, a transition of power likened by some to a Southeast Asian version of North Korea’s dynastic leadership.
Hun Manet,...