It was reported that the trade deficit, to end August 2020, was US $ 3.8 billion, compared with US$ 4.8 billion to end August 2019. There...
It is reported that a top level Chinese delegation has arrived in Sri Lanka and they have been subjected only to PCR test and not quarantine....
This is in response to the October 06, 2020 The Island editorial titled “Lajja!”. This particular editorial had most unfortunately deviated from its usual high standard...
Sri Lanka is not any isolated island in the Indian Ocean. We may have thought so when we were able to hugely curb the spread of...
Sri Lanka was at ease and enjoyed a period of a relatively community transmission-free state in the past two months. Now, it is confronted with an...
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”-Mahatma Gandhi Sri Lanka has an ancient culture....
According to the news item in The Island under the heading ‘Address Tamils aspirations within united Sri Lanka, and implement 13th Amendment’ on 28th September 2020,...
Mr President, I read a letter by a regular contributor to the media one G. A. D. Sirimal, and thought of adding my views on a...
The Island editorial today says the ill-fated supertanker, MT New Diamond, which was recently saved by jointly Sri Lanka and India, has been towed away from...
Former Prime Minister and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, testifying before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry investigating the Easter Sunday carnage, has rightly pointed out the many...