The main reason for this reluctance among specialists is that, in conscience, they cannot and will not recommend the cheapest if it is of a low quality, said many specialists on condition of anonymity ...

Last Monday, the Navy tracked one such Indian bottom trawler in Mannar and tried to seize it in mid-sea after trying to chase ...

In one instance where survivors, their children and grandchildren still gather every week to recite and chant the names of each family member who died in the concentration camps of the Third Reich.

Election Commission officials carried out a programme this week to educate members of Sri Lanka’s indigenous Vedda community ...

An internal inquiry should be held and disciplinary action taken against Customs officers who allegedly ignored recommendations made to conduct physical inspections on a stock of high-risk ...

However, Lionel Gunasekara, president of the organisation to protect Sigiriya, questioned why no action has been taken by the ...

More than 30,000 premises were inspected during the islandwide mosquito eradication drive carried out from June 30 to July 5.

The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka (TEGOSL) has withdrawn from a committee appointed by the Ministry of Mass Media to draft a National Media Policy, citing contradictory statements from ministry ...

Under an IMF-recommended amendment to the National Audit Act (NAA), the Auditor-General (AG) will be bound to notify the Chief Accountant of an audited entity to “immediately” complain to law ...

A senior Treasury official said that in the five months after the restrictions on the import of vehicles were lifted, Letters of Credit to the value of US$ 742 million have been opened, against the ...

Of the total expenditure of Rs. 493.25 million, only Rs. 74.2 million was approved by the Presidential Secretariat and was given for these programmes, and the remaining funds (Rs. 464.59 Mn) had been ...

By Dilushi Wijesinghe The Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) has resumed accepting applications from fee-paying local students (day scholars) for its Bachelor of Medicine, Bachel ...