Mounting concerns over drug safety and regulatory oversight have triggered strong calls from medical professionals and trade unions for the...
China has pledged its full support to Sri Lanka’s economic and social recovery efforts in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah,...
The Hydrology and Disaster Management Division of the Department of Irrigation has issued flood warnings for the Mahaweli River Basin...
Volodymyr Zelensky is urging European Union leaders gathered at a crunch summit in Brussels to loan billions of euros in...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will crack down on hate speech following Sunday’s deadly shooting at Bondi...
The Bay of Plenty lived up to its name but only for New Zealand. Devon Conway and Tom Latham harvested...
Australia have not yet officially retained the Ashes, but it already seems a matter of “when” not “if” after England’s...
Winter storms are worsening conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, as aid agencies warn that Israeli...
An official meeting was held between Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC)...
The landslide early warning centre of the National Building Research Organization [NBRO] has issued Level III landslide early warnings to...
Astonishingly, this Ashes series is just seven days old, but it remains in no mood to slow down and take...
Sri Lanka has named a young squad for the forthcoming T20Is against India, bringing in the likes of 17-year-old ambidextrous...
by Dinasena Rathugamage An unidentified disease has rapidly spread among pigs in several villages, including Selvanagar in Kilinochchi, leading to the deaths of 185 adult animals...
by Rex Clementine Traveling to New Zealand feels like a journey to the ends of the earth. First, there’s the four-hour flight to Singapore, and from...
by Jagath Kanaherarachchi Environmentalists have warned that low lands and abandoned paddy fields in the Western Province are under threat of being encroached upon by the...
The Upali Group of Companies, its employees and sales agents countrywide, have made arrangements to invoke blessings on its founder, Upali Wijewardene, who disappeared in his...
Monday 3rd February, 2025 It has now become abundantly clear that US President Donald Trump is trying to make America great again by creating a new...
by Laleen Jayamanne and Namika Raby (Part I of this article appeared in The Island on Friday (31 Jan.) Women’s Mental Health: Trance/Dance in Folk Rituals...
By Professor Emeritus I. M. Dharmadasa Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom This article summarises the history of solar energy development in Sri Lanka that I have...
Milinda Moragoda was presented with an early copy of ‘Nalanda – How it Changed the World’ during a brief visit to New Delhi by its author,...
International Theatre Festival of India In Collaboration with Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre, Colombo University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo 6-9 February 2025 Tower Hall Theatre,...
Hambantota International Port (HIP) is fully prepared to support the expected surge in vehicle imports following the recent lifting of Sri Lanka’s import ban. With the...
By Sanath Nanayakkare Sri Lanka is probably running the risk of becoming a pawn or whatever, between China’s assertive politics and India’s, a German economic policy...
Apollo Hospitals, India’s leading healthcare provider, has taken a significant step in addressing Sri Lanka’s pressing healthcare challenges with the launch of the Apollo Hospitals International...
