SriLankan Airlines improved its underlying operating performance in 2024/25, but engine shortages, 487 flight cancellations, falling passenger revenue and LKR 31.6 billion in finance costs pushed the Group into a LKR 2.74
More than 200 people have been killed in a catastrophic collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, highlighting the lethal intersection of armed conflict, poverty, and the
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The Gangodawila Magistrate has ordered the remand of the owner of the Maharagama Rainbow Manpower Foreign Employment Agency until February 13, following allegations of a large-scale foreign employment scam involving promised jobs
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Sri Lanka’s Police Department is currently facing a severe shortage of approximately 32,000 officers, Inspector General of Police Attorney-at-Law Priyantha Weerasuriya revealed yesterday. Addressing the issue, the IGP stated that immediate steps
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Draft emails attributed to Jeffrey Epstein and released by the US Department of Justice allege that Bill Gates feared he had contracted a sexually transmitted disease and sought to quietly address the
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Japan’s reliance on foreign labor reached a historic milestone in 2025, as the number of overseas workers climbed to a record 2.57 million, highlighting how deeply the world’s fourth-largest economy is being
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The idea that the COVID-19 pandemic merely hastened deaths that were already imminent has been deeply embedded in public debate since the crisis began. But a sweeping new analysis suggests that assumption
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Japan is facing mounting pressure to reduce its heavy reliance on rare earth imports from China as political tensions between Tokyo and Beijing continue to deepen. The challenge has taken on new
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A European crisis fund with more than 430 billion euros in lending capacity could be tapped to help finance defence spending across the euro zone, as the European Union races to reinforce
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A fresh political controversy has erupted over the operation of the Norochchola Coal Power Plant after Member of Parliament Ajith P. Perera disclosed alarming findings following an inspection tour of the facility.
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An investigation has been launched into a school principal in Sri Lanka’s Central Province over the premature release of Grade 10 third-term examination question papers, according to Central Provincial Director of Education
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Sri Lanka’s long-postponed Provincial Council elections remain stalled amid what the Election Commission describes as a complete lack of response from the Presidential Secretariat, despite repeated written requests to resolve the legal
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A decisive meeting of Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Council is scheduled to take place today, January 30, within the Parliamentary complex to discuss the appointment of a new Auditor General, a position that
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Sri Lanka is facing a steadily growing cancer crisis, with around 100 new patients being diagnosed every day and approximately 40 cancer-related deaths recorded daily, according to the National Cancer Control Program.
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Nearly three years after ethnic violence tore through Manipur, the death of a young Kuki-Zo woman named Grace has come to symbolise a conflict that never truly ended. Her passing on January
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On the islands dotting the Krishna river in Telangana, there are no roads, no phone networks, and no easy way out. It was in these isolated fishing camps that Erukala Raju, a
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