Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will stand again for a fifth term in office.
He announced it at an awards ceremony for participants of the full-scale war he launched against Ukraine in 2022.
It comes a day after election...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m.on 05 December 2023 by the Department of Meteorology
The Severe Cyclonic Storm “MICHAUNG” (PRONOUNCED AS “MIGJAUM”) over West-Central Bay of Bengal was located near latitude 14.5°N and longitude 80.3°E, at 2330hrs of 04 December,...
Sam Curran and Jos Buttler bounced back to form with ball and bat respectively, while Will Jacks served further notice of his opener’s credentials with a vital half-century on an occasionally capricious pitch, as England squared their three-match series...
Dullas urges govt. not to cause further destabilisation
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Controversy surrounds the inordinate delay in appointing the Chief of Staff and the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army against the backdrop of dissident SLPP MP Dullas Alahapperuma’s revelation in...
President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, addressing the centenary celebration of the Government Valuation Department held at Solis Hotel in Pitakotte today (06), announced the initiation of a ground-breaking economic program set to kick off on January 1.
The President said that adopting...
Nimisha Priya, barely 19, left the southern Indian state of Kerala for Yemen in 2008 with big dreams.
She had found work as a nurse in a government-run hospital in the capital Saan’a and told her mother, a poorly-paid...
Aid agencies are warning that Palestinian civilians are running out of places to flee to, after the Israeli military first ordered tens of thousands to evacuate part of the main city in the south ahead of an assault by...
You know it’s a crisis when Germany’s Green vice chancellor cancels attending a climate summit.
Robert Habeck, who’s also economy minister, was supposed to be at the COP28 summit this week in Dubai. Instead, he is in Berlin, wrangling...
By Saman Indrajith
Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha on Tuesday (05) told Parliament that he would take steps to recruit over 2,000 university lecturers to fill vacancies in the university system.
Minister Premajayantha said that the universities needed about 12,000 lecturers...
By Shamindra Ferdinando
The rebel SLPP group yesterday (04) accused President Ranil Wickremesinghe of trying to bring the legislature under his control ahead of presidential and parliamentary polls scheduled for 2024 and 2025.
Addressing the weekly media briefing at Nawala, top...