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Lanka student finds green way to tackle oil spills

A 24-year-old Sri Lankan post-graduate student in Chemistry at the University of Maryland USA, has discovered an agent which will clear oil spills in the sea withou...

Colombo Leadership Academy concludes workshop on Leading with Emotional Intelligence for High Performance

In an effort to provide better understanding and proactive growth in the business and human resources field, the Colombo Leadership Academy (CLA) recently presented...

President pledges Govt. focus on development and reconciliation

President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday said that the Government would take complete responsibility in preventing the outbreak of another war and would focus on es...

President runs marathon to promote energy conservation

President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday launched a special marathon organised under the energy conversation program introduced with the declaration of National E...

SL first nation to protect all mangrove forests

Sri Lanka has become the first nation in the world to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests. A scheme backed by the government will include alternativ...

Way forward: Ethnic harmony, peace, law and order

Sri Lanka being a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, country, with a heterogeneous population, we need to carefully study the causes that provoked discord and conflic...

Ranil Jayawardena becomes UK MP

Ranil Jayawardena of Sri Lankan origin romped to victory in North East Hampshire constituency, taking a near-30,000 vote majority over the Liberal Democrats, the Ge...

IIT Campus sets new record, extends winning streak at Microsoft Imagine Cup

IIT students wins Games, Innovation and World Citizenship categories at Imagine Cup Sri Lanka 2015 finals with seven teams bagging a record breaking six awards

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Kerry assures better times for tea trade with Iran

Unites States Secretary of State, John Kerry had indicated that Sri Lanka’s tea trade, which was affected by US sanctions on Iran, would be normalised within fe...

Gajitha & Kulisa to represent Sri Lanka at the world schools chess championships 2015

Gajitha (U-15) & Kulisa Nanayakkara (U-13) of Gateway College have been selected to represent the Sri Lankan Chess Squad at the World Schools Chess Championships 20...