by N. V. Gooneratne There were several articles on ‘Colombo flood protection’ in your newspaper and I would like to mention the following. The following fact...
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, August 3: The number of people, who have recovered from Covid-19, in India, crossed the 1.1 million...
Nikini Full Moon Poya Day falls today by Mervyn Samarakoon ‘ Thasma thiha the Bahiya, ditte dittadhammang hothu ‘ Wisdom finds its sublime splendour in a...
Eng. Parakrama Jayasinghe E Mail: parajayasinghe@gmail.com There is much euphoria after opening the tenders for the 150 MW of Solar PV parks on the 22nd July...
By Gwynne Dyer A glance at the history of nuclear weapons manufacture shows that all 11 countries that wished to build bombs did so within three...
By Dr Janaka Ratnasiri I thank Eng. Anton Nanayakkara (AN)’s write-up in The Island of 28.07.2020, responding to my article on Flood Protection of Colombo Metropolitan...
by JUSTIN KEPPETIYAGAMA jdkgama02@gmail.com Speaking at a series of election rallies in Trincomalee and Kinniya, on July 19, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said he...
President Donald Trump, whose nonsense about the spread of Covid-19 in the US, is now using the major disaster it has caused, to get the coming...
Reading the articles published in The Island over the last few weeks, it seems that most of the political analysts, regardless of the party they support,...
by Rajan Philips The country has been on its marks for nearly five months for Wednesdays election. There have been false starts given the long wait....