Sri Lanka wins Emerging Teams Asia Cup
COLOMBO: Defending champions Sri Lanka beat India by three runs to win the 2018 Emerging Teams Asia Cup in a nail-biting final held on 15…
New Cabinet of Ministers
COLOMBO: President Maithripala Sirisena on Thursday ( 20 December) appointed 28 lawmakers and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as Cabinet ministers. President Sirisena administered oaths at…
Sri Lankan rewarded with Permanent Residency in South Korea after rescuing 90-year old woman from burning house
SEOUL: After saving a 90-year old woman from a burning house in North Gyeongsang Province last year, Nimal Siri, a Sri Lankan migrant worker in…
BISTROS OF MY CHILDHOOD
A quick ‘Google Search’ defines Bistro as a small and inexpensive restaurant. The ones we were treated to on rare occasions as kids were exactly…
Send an SMS to help prevent elephant-train collisions
COLOMBO: The Department of Railways has introduced an SMS hotline 070-4445454 to inform about locations of elephant herds on railway lines countrywide in collaboration with…
New building for Sri Lankan school in Doha
DOHA: The groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of constructing a new building for Stafford Sri Lankan School Doha was held in Doha, according to…
Rangana Herath: The rotund banker who became a Sri Lankan cricket legend
PERTH: Suresh Perera thinks he knows the secret behind Rangana Herath’s astounding international career, which ended after Sri Lanka’s first Test defeat to England in…
Former immigrant from Sri Lanka just made India’s most expensive movie
CHENNAI:The man who bankrolled the science-fiction film 2.0, India’s costliest movie, is a former immigrant from Sri Lanka who is now running his family’s telecom,…
Increase in luxury cruise ships calling at Colombo Port
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has recorded a 29 percent growth in luxury cruise ships calling at the Port of Colombo in the first 10 months of…
First major Sri Lankan art exhibition organised by US museum opens in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES: The first comprehensive survey of Sri Lankan art organised by a US museum has opened in Los Angeles. The exhibition titled ‘The Jeweled…