Following a significant drop in gold prices in the global market, the price of gold in the local market has decreased by around Rs. 9,000. MORE..

Sri Lanka Police have uncovered several details regarding the discovery of a woman’s body inside a parked car in the Teldeniya area. MORE..

A super El Nino is likely to unsettle global weather and threaten food output in the coming months, but near record world inventories, expectations ​of near-normal conditions in some key producing regions and advanced planning could limit the fallout. MORE..

Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education, Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, stated that if Sri Lanka is to nurture future leaders, children must be exposed from primary education onwards to the experiences and values gained through...MORE..

Talks that had been planned for ​Friday between the ‌United States and Iran at the Burgenstock mountaintop ​resort in Switzerland ​will not take place, ⁠according to a ​Swiss foreign ministry statement.

The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) has announced that an emergency water interruption will be in effect in the Mahara Pradeshiya Sabha and Gampaha Pradeshiya Sabha areas from this morning (19) until 8:00 a.m. tomorrow (20).

Labour’s Andy Burnham, the current mayor of Greater Manchester, has won a special election for a seat in Parliament that puts him in a position to challenge embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer for leadership of the country.

Thirty-five people have been killed after gunmen struck Niger’s largest airport on Thursday, officials say - the second attack in less than five months. MORE..

U.S. Vice President JD Vance pulled out of a planned trip to meet Iranian negotiators in Switzerland on Friday to begin complex talks on implementing the 14-point agreement, ​struck between Tehran and Washington to end their war, a White House spokesperson said. MORE..

The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) has announced that the water supply to several areas surrounding Middeniya Road and Hulandawa Bridge will be temporarily suspended for a period of 13 hours today (19).

The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) has initiated a special investigation into an incident that occurred on 17 June during a bomb disposal exercise conducted at the Kalpitiya Firing Range.

The Government of Sri Lanka has introduced a new set of regulations, effective from today (19), aimed at enhancing the monitoring and oversight of outward remittances associated with import transactions.

Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in the Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-western provinces and in the Galle, Matara, Kandy and Nuwara-Eliya districts today (19), the Department of Meteorology stated.

The US has dropped its naval blockade of Iran after the two countries signed a deal to end the war in the Middle East.

Sri Lankans employed in Kuwait have become the country’s largest source of foreign remittances among overseas migrant workers, according to the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE).