Sri Lanka's Ceylon Electricity Board said 90 minute power cuts will be imposed during the evening peak on a rolling basis to ...

Sri Lanka's main (Maha) season rice harvest is projected at 2.56 million metric tonnes, based on cultivation up to December 2024, including re-cultivation after crop damage, the Department of ...

Most detractors of the NPP claimed, before last year’s elections, that Sri Lanka would find itself in the same predicament as Oceania in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, if the JVP-led alliance was ...

Two tourists have died from suspected pesticide poisoning after their hostel in Sri Lanka was fumigated for bedbugs, Britain’s PA Media news agency has reported. Ebony McIntosh, a 24-year-old ...

Tea Leaf Trust aims to help young people find work off tea estates if they desire, while also making them leaders of change ...

As a joint venture between NTPC (formerly National Thermal Power Corporation) and CEB, the project is differently structured from the proposed Adani Green Energy Sri Lanka Limited (AGESLL) wind power ...

The Sri Lanka Navy seized two [02] Indian fishing boats and apprehended 14 Indian fishermen while they were poaching in... The first president of independent Namibia, Sam Nujoma, has died at the age ...

Australia and Sri Lanka face off in the second and final Test in Galle this afternoon, less than a week after the first Test ended at the same venue. Reigning champions Australia have already ...

On Thursday, a day after the government announced the minimum purchase price for paddy, farmers in Vavuniya contacted the regional office of the Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) – only to be told that they ...

Colombo, Feb 08 (Daily Mirror) - Although the storage facilities of the Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) remain open for paddy purchases at the maximum support price announced by the government ...

Farmers enjoyed a paddy rice harvest after diligent cultivation in Gampaha, Sri Lanka.Rice cultivation in Sri Lanka consists of two seasons, Maha and ...

Agriculture Lands Livestock and Irrigation Minister K. D. Lalkantha yesterday said the Government, through the Paddy Marketing Board (PMB), will pay farmers for paddy.Speaking at a press conference ...