… announces temporary relief package President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday acknowledged in Parliament that the import of substandard coal had...
The Chinese Embassy in Colombo launched the commemorative publication in connection with the 70 years of Sri Lanka Diplomatic Relations...
Approval has been granted at the Cabinet Meeting held on 30-03-2026 to provide relief by granting up to rupees 20/-...
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the resolution furnished by the President in his capacity as the Minister of Digital...
The Galle fort which has been declared as a World Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization...
Seven players from the Eritrean football squad that scored a historic victory in Eswatini last week have failed to return...
The Artemis II astronauts are bound for Earth after conducting a historic lunar fly by and witnessing a total solar...
Matheesha Pathirana and Wanidu Hasaranga are among 15 Sri Lankan players under central contracts yet to take their mandatory fitness...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 06 April 2026, valid...
United States President Donald Trump has threatened to attack civilian infrastructure inside Iran, including bridges and power plants, if the...
Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru [RCB] razed Chennai Super Kings’ [CSK] attack and the record books, in front of their...
‘Previous govt. planned to shut it down’ Health and Media Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa has assured that the state-owned Thriposha Company, situated at Kandana, will be modernised. This...
The Pakistan Naval Academy held a commissioning parade on Saturday (4) to mark the graduation of 49 midshipmen and 29 short-service commissioning cadets, including officers from...
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) recently upgraded Western Music Classroom of Sujatha Vidyalaya, Matara under the small-scale projects of KOICA volunteer programme 2024. The opening...
A call for coexistence by Ifham Nizam Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict (HEC) has become an increasingly tragic symbol of the struggle between conservation and development. As...
Tamils and also Muslims to a degree in the North, East, Centre and Colombo voted for this government rejecting their own ethnic political parties helping the...
‘Failure is punishable as contempt of the Commission’ Former PA lawmaker and Ambassador to Iran M.M. Zuhair, PC said that the government should promptly facilitate the Human Rights...
By Shamindra Ferdinando The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) was yet to decide on a specific course of action in the aftermath of presidential and parliamentary elections held...
A special search operation conducted by the Navy in the seas off the Baththalangunduwa Island, Kalpitiya, over the weekend, led to the interception of a dinghy...
Monday 6th January, 2025 President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s ambitious, catch-all project, ‘Clean Sri Lanka’, is in the same perilous situation as pedestrians in this country—it runs...
Sri Lanka’s earnings from exports increased in the first eleven months of 2024 while the import expenditure also increased in the same period, according to the...
By Norman Palihawadana Army Commander Lt. General Lasantha Rodrigo yesterday (05) told The Island that an investigation had got underway into the death of an elephant last November...
Former Chairperson of Human Rights Commission Prof. Deepika Udagama yesterday (05) strongly condemned the cancellation of a lecture, titled ‘How to fight against the IMF austerity...
