President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised sweeping changes to the country’s Constitution that will ensure a stable Parliament and “priority will be given to the concept of one country, one law for all the people” in his address to Parliament today

The new Sri Lankan Parliament convened for its inaugural session on Thursday following the August 5 general elections, which saw the ruling SLPP party secure a landslide victory

Forty-one people have died from COVID-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)

Tourist spots, hotels, motels and resorts in Bandarban will be opened on a limited scale for tourists from tomorrow, after a five-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday said that "all barriers and excuses have been removed" ahead of the intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban

Based on some reports a top government official has flown to Qatar to meet the Taliban representatives to ask them not to discuss the formation of an interim government and not put it on the agenda of the intra-Afghan negotiations

A good 165 days have passed since the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the Maldives. The number of cases increased from March 7 until late June, after which the figures began to slowly decline

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has stated that the country is facing difficult times, and that lessons must be derived from islamic history in this situation

In order to prepare students for the A’ Level and AS examinations, the Education Ministry has announced that students of Grades 11, 12 in Male’ City are to attend schools for education

Maldives Airport Company Limited (MACL), on Tuesday, revealed that only 399 international flights landed at Velana International Airport (VIA) within the first month since Maldives reopened its borders

Ministry of Economic Development, on Thursday, extended the ban on bringing Bangladeshi labourers to Maldives for a period of one year, just as the restriction's September 18 deadline draws close

A year after additional security personnel were deployed in Jammu and Kashmir, the central government on Wednesday withdrew around 12,000 troopers of various paramilitary forces, indicating a significant improvement in the law and order situation of the Union Territory

To help subscribers stay connected with their loved ones, the two telecom companies have offered more than one giga-byte free data to each subscriber

The government has collected a total of Rs 61.37 billion in the first month of the current fiscal year

Police have arrested nine persons, including the singer of the controversial music video titled ‘Deshdrohi’ on the charge of spreading communal hatred and burning the national flag