An attempt by a suspect to escape from the Galle Prison was thwarted by prison guards today (12) at noon. The Galle Prison ...

Iran-backed Iraqi group claims responsibility for downing US military aircraft. Most visited website in Sri Lanka.

The US has authorised countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum that's currently loaded on vessels at sea. US Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent said it was a temporary measure to ...

Iran will allow Indian-flagged tankers ​to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for 40% of the South Asian nation's crude ...

A discussion to compile a set of New Year auspicious times will take place next Monday under the chairmanship of the subject Minister, Professor Hiniduma Sunil Senevi. The Department of Cultural ...

US Senator Raphael Warnock has said that killing of more than 170 schoolchildren in Iran “should shock our conscience and cause us to recoil in horror”. The senator, who is also a Pastor and a member ...

Police transported approximately 180kg of narcotics, including ice and heroin, to the incinerator in Vanathavilluwa for destruction. The police further stated that these drugs relate to cases where ...

Police reported the arrest of four individuals yesterday (11) during two separate raids over their alleged engagement in illegal gem mining without valid licenses in the Bogawantalawa and Maskeliya ...

The U.S. Trade Representative's office said late on Thursday it had begun Section 301 unfair ​trade practices probes of 60 economies in relation to what ‌it called failures to take action on forced ...

The Fort Magistrate ordered Kapila Chandrasena, the former Chief Executive Officer of SriLankan Airlines, to be remanded until the 19th of this month following his arrest today (12). The Bribery ...

An US aircraft has crashed in Iraq, the American military has confirmed. A military KC-135 refuelling plane went down after an "incident" involving two aircraft, with "hostile fire or friendly fire" ...

A French soldier has been killed during a drone attack in Iraq's Erbil region, with several others injured, France's President Emmanuel Macron announced. He named Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion as ...