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NDB delivers 65% PAT growth for 9M-25

Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- National Development Bank PLC, released its financial results for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, to the Colombo Stock Exchange recently. The results showcase impressive... Read More


Colombo Dockyard signs major shipbuilding contract

Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC), secured another repeat vessels contract to build two Cable Laying and Repair Vessels to one of the prestigious cable ship operators, Orange Marine. I... Read More


Kilgharrah 600 worth USD 156,000 handed over to Kenya

Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- The launch of the unique machine Kilgharrah 600 worth USD 156,000 designed by Thimark Technocreations Engineering Institute to remove waste materials blocking the gates of hydroel... Read More


Who remembers Lt Manohara De Silva?

Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- We remember and we forget. We know numbers. We know the aggregate. We know history in sweeps. Details? Not so much. When thousands die, individual names get swept away by the enor... Read More


A crackdown in motion

Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- The drive against the narcotics trade is being spearheaded by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake himself. President Dissanayake launched a campaign titled 'A Nation United' or 'Ra... Read More


US atomic tests: for brinkmanship or spectacle?

Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- This was even as the world's biggest nuclear power, the US, was busy financing and equipping the world's 'rogue' nuclear-armed state, its protege Israel, to continue bombarding an... Read More


2026 budget should be a blueprint to build on the already achieved

Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- It was a slippery path encumbered with rocks. The government had to move ahead against global economic headwinds. Sri Lanka, along with other countries in the region and elsewhere... Read More


A victory for democracy

Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- Far-Right's anti-immigration and anti-Islam message, placing their faith in the Centrist D66 (D for Democrats) party led by 38-year-old Rob Jetten. If coalition talks succeed, he ... Read More


Cabinet Decisions

Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal presented by the Prime Minister, as Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Professional Education to enter into the follow... Read More


Minister calls for public support to fight drug traffickers

Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- Fisheries, Aquatic and Ocean Resources Minister Ramalingam Chandrasekar called upon the public to actively provide information regarding drug traffickers, cannabis smugglers, viol... Read More