A total of 121 schools with possible mosquito breeding sites have been identified during the past three days of the Special Mosquito Control Week, which is being conducted island-wide, the National Dengue Control Unit said.

Consultant Community Physician at the National Dengue Control Unit, Dr. Anoja Dheerasinghe noted that the special mosquito...

The Sri Lanka Army has assisted in the treatment of the injured wild tusker ‘Bhathiya’, who had been roaming around the Manigama area in Nikaweratiya while recovering from gunshot wounds sustained approximately two months ago.

The wild tusker recently fell into a water pit and met with an accident.

Based on the directives of the Ministry of Defence,...

BRICS leaders are set to gather in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, calling for reform of traditional Western institutions while presenting the bloc as a defender of multilateralism in an increasingly fractured world.

Emerging nations, which represent about half the world’s population and 40 percent of global economic output, have united over “serious con...

Matthew Duckworth has been named as Australia’s next High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Australia has announced.

Duckworth is a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and was most recently Assistant Secretary, United States Trade Taskforce and Deputy Chief Negotiator, Australia-EU...