Coal power generation falls by 27 GWh A sharp decline in coal-fired electricity generation in April 2026, compared to the...
Asith Siriwardena Counsel for former Director of State Intelligence Service, Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay, detained under the Prevention of...
AUSTRALIA For the first time since 2017, Australia do not have global silverware to defend, with last year’s ODI World...
Tamim Iqbal has been elected as the new BCB president following the elections held in Dhaka on Sunday. Tamim was...
With no play possible in the second ODI, both teams go into the third game well-rested. Perhaps this is a...
More than a million people lined the streets of Madrid on Sunday as Pope Leo XIV held an open-air mass...
South Africa successfully defended 136 in an 18-over game against Ireland in the Women’s T20 World Cup warm-up fixture in...
In the 11th over, KL Rahul edged a cut to the keeper off Ziaur Ahmed when he was on 16....
West Indies won the toss and put Sri Lanka into bat, but that was the extent of the action from...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 07 JUNE 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 07 June 2026 by the Department of Meteorology Showers...
Sunday marks 100 days into the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran. But as fighting and...
West Indies won the toss and put Sri Lanka into bat in what is a must-win second ODI in Jamaica...
UNP Kandy District Leader and Senior Vice President Naveen Dissanayake has called for the reunification of forces aligned with former President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Opposition Leader...
The Colombo High Court yesterday postponed until July 9 the hearing of the money laundering case filed against Yoshitha Rajapaksa under the Prevention of Money Laundering...
More than one in five schoolchildren in Sri Lanka were affected by malnutrition, Secretary to the Ministry of Health Anil Jasinghe said yesterday, warning of a...
For more than a century, Sri Lankan society has lived with a quiet contradiction at the heart of its religious life. On the one hand, the...
Friday 5th June, 2026 The Opposition’s propaganda mill is in overdrive, manufacturing various stories about a split in the JVP-NPP government. Mighty governments collapse not because...
Sri Lanka has one of the most educated female populations in South Asia, yet only about one in three women participates in the labour force, making...
The Power and Energy Ministry’s drive towards energy security and renewable energy expansion received a major boost yesterday with the signing of a tripartite cooperation agreement...
Interview with Khalid Hamoud Al-Kahtani, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Sri Lanka Saudi Arabia has once again demonstrated its unparalleled capacity to manage...
A security guard attached to the National Water Supply and Drainage Board’s Gorakadeniya Water Treatment Plant has been arrested by Peradeniya Police after more than six...
This is regarding the editorial of The Island on 19 May 2026, titled “Defeat of Terrorism- Triumph of hypocrisy”. I fully agree with the Editor when...
Tales of Mystery and Suspense 4 Though murder mysteries that are also comic novels are not very common, I have read quite a few of them...
As climate-linked regulations, investor expectations, and financing requirements increasingly influence global trade and market access, the Sri Lanka Climate Summit 2026, will place business readiness at...
