The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) has called for an impartial investigation into the tragic death of 23-year-old Charith Dilshan, a second-year student at the Faculty of Engineering Technology at Sabaragamuwa University.

In a statement, FUTA expressed deep shock over the incident, emphasizing the urgent need for a...

The Intertropical Convergence Zone where winds from the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere converge affects the island’s weather, the Department of Meteorology says.

Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in Western, Central, Sabaragamuwa, Southern, Uva and Eastern provinces during the afternoon or night, it added.

Meanwhile,...

Two senior police officers visited the residence of suspended IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon in Hokandara yesterday (May 1), informing him that he may be the target of death threats allegedly issued by underworld gang members, including notorious criminal figure “Kanjipani Imran”.

The officers have stated that intelligence reports indicate “Kanjipani I...

A British woman, Ethel Caterham, became the world’s oldest person aged 115 on Thursday after the death of a Brazilian nun who had held the record, according to research groups.

Caterham was born in a village in Hampshire on August 21, 1909, the second youngest of eight children.

She lives in a care home in Surrey, also in southern England, having...