Davie and three others escaped but Davie was taken as a prisoner to the king along the Paranaganthota road. Governor North and MacDowall made many attempts to secure his release but the king refused.

The privatisation of Litro Gas Lanka Ltd is a fine balance between the state and the private sector efficiencies as Sri Lanka moves ahead in its economic restructuring process. And it will have to be ...

Chief Justice Murdu Fernando has forwarded the names of four senior high court judges to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to fill four existing vacancies in the Court of Appeal. Accordingly, the ...

Vithurshan Sayalolibavan, a graduate of the University of Jaffna, is the founder of ‘Stray Guard’, that aims to save stray dogs and cattle from road accidents by safeguarding them with reflective ...

Now, Sri Lanka has 527 state-owned enterprises with 85 commercial entities. The previous regime had already initiated a State-Owned Enterprises Restructuring Unit, SOERU, to take the lead in divesting ...

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The Government of India is offering a fully-funded scholarship for Lankan nationals to study Hindi at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan (Central Institute of Hindi), Agra, for the 2025/2026 academic session ...

Australia humiliated Sri Lanka, crushing them by an innings and 242-run in the first Test at Galle—their biggest defeat surpassing the previous against India (by an innings and 239 runs in 2017 in ...

Ladies’ College triumphed over their traditional rivals, Girls’ High School, Kandy, by 32-26 in their centenary netball match, claiming victory in the Gwen Opie Memorial Challenge Shield at Ladies’ ...

Sri Lanka will end its four-year ban on car and vehicle imports with effect from February 1, allowing motor traders to once again import vehicles. This decision of vehicle import ban follows the ...

The government is finalising a list of names to be posted as heads of Sri Lanka’s missions abroad, with ex-Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya assuming duties as Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to ...

The JVP/NPP’s election manifesto was clear that they would not privatise the SOEs. On the other hand, one of the important conditions for the continuation of the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) has ...