WEATHER FORECAST FOR 20 FEBRUARY 2026  Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 20 February 2026 by the Department of Meteorology Misty ...

Several countries which have signed up to Donald Trump’s Board of Peace have contributed more than $7bn (£5.2bn) towards a ...

In an alternate world, Australia would have been running final system checks in their last group game against Oman on ...

Construction has commenced on Sri Lanka’s largest solar power project, a 150-megawatt facility spanning 450 acres at the ...

Yuhansa Peiris is set to meet Aaraa Aasaal Azim of Maldives in the girls’ singles final after emerging victorious in the semi ...

US President Donald Trump says he will direct US agencies, including the defence department, to “begin the process of identifying and releasing” government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life.

A Japanese city has received a hefty donation to help fix its ageing water system: 21kg (46lb) in gold bars. The gold bars, worth an estimated 560 million yen ($3.6m; £2.7m), were given last November ...

Oman have suffered three heavy defeats to Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, and Ireland at the 2026 T20 World Cup, and had been thumped by Australia the only other time these two teams met, at the 2024 edition.

Sri Lanka must engineer a “Shinkansen effect” in its export strategy or risk being left behind in a rapidly reorganising global economy, warned Indo Lanka Chamber of Commerce and Industry President M.

Friday 20th February, 2026 The JVP-NPP government finds itself in an unenviable position over the Provincial Council (PC) polls, which have been in abeyance for nearly a decade. In the late 1980s, the ...

CSE closed after its broader index hit an intra-day high of 24,000 yesterday due to tensions in US-Iran relations and a dip in investor sentiment. The All Share Price Index closed at 0.21 percent, or ...

BNP rightly deserves our congratulations for winning a decisive victory in the 13th parliamentary election. This outcome reflects an unequivocal mandate that is both politically and historically ...