By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka From a party that made history, today the UNP is history. The last chance it had, it blew. That was in 2019...
The Sri Lankan coastline has seen many disasters in the recent past. Its high vulnerability to climate change impacts like sea-level rise, flooding, storm surges, cyclones...
Dr Laksiri Fernando The World University Service (WUS) initially planned to celebrate its 100th anniversary in Vienna on 14-16 May 2020. The theme of the world...
The Opposition has a habit of opposing every move of the government, whether it is good or bad. It is protesting against the government to impose...
Prescription for anti-depressants are done merrily by Sri Lankan Psychiatrists particularly in the form of SSRI’s (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) and SNRI’s (Selective Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitors)...
The Sri Lankan rupee is coming crashing down. Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa himself admitted this in parliament, in the debate on just a one percent fine...
We are going through tumultuous times, indeed. The COVID pandemic is the main challenge facing the nation as much as it is to the entire world....
4th Commemorative Anniversary Deshamanya Marhoom Al Haj Mohammed Abdul Bakeer Markar’s ancestry is traced to Sheik Jamaluddeen-Al-Maghdoomi, an Arab settler in Beruwala. His father Hakeem Alia...
This article is to educate the general public how a group of present- day Brahmins, who assume they are leaders in Urban Development are trying to...
The Island editorial centres around a story of stripping off the gold medal won by a Malaysian Shot Put winner, Ziyad Zolkefli, an intellectually disability player...