By Rathindra Kuruwita
Hospitals in Sri Lanka’s urban centres, too, will struggle to deliver healthcare as a large number of healthcare workers, from doctors to nurses, are leaving the country, says Education Secretary of the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) Pubudu...
The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has issued level II landslide early warning to the Divisional Secretaries divisions of Passara in the Badulla District and Elpitiya Divisional Secretaries division in the Galle District while level I warnings have been...
Gunmen have stormed a school in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, killing several teachers and gunning down another teacher from the school in a separate attack, according to officials.
In Kurram, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan,...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe in his Vesak message called upon all Sri Lankans to unite in solidarity to rebuild an affluent Sri Lanka.
The full text of the President’s Vesak Message:
This thrice blessed day of Vesak being most important in the...
The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has issued a landslide early warning for the Divisional Secretaries divisions of Haldumulla and Passara in the Badulla District, Divisional Secretaries division of Kegalle in the Kegalle District and Divisional Secretaries divisions of...
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in the Netherlands, local media reported, on an unannounced visit expected to include meetings at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as well as members of the...
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – an illness that kills thousands of Americans each year.
The vaccine still needs approval from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before...
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Jathika Nidahas Sabhawa Spokesperson Prof. G. L. Peiris, MP, Tuesday (02) questioned the conduct of the Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam, PC, pertaining to obtaining compensation for the worst ever marine disaster, caused in Sri Lankan waters, following...
The body of an Australian man who vanished while fishing with friends has been found inside a crocodile.
Kevin Darmody was last seen at Kennedy’s Bend – well-known saltwater crocodile habitat in a remote part of northern Queensland – on...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 03 May 2023 by the Department of Meteorology
Prevailing showery condition over the island is expected to continue further during the next few days as well.
Showers or thundershowers will occur over most parts...