… as Lakvijaya falters, power plants need over 2 mn litres of fuel daily By Shamindra Ferdinando The SJB yesterday (06) said that...
UN Women Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Christine Arab, concluded a two-day official visit to Sri Lanka (25–26 March),...
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...
Mohammed Shami’s miserly 2 for 9 and Rishabh Pant’s uncharacteristic half-century helped Lucknow Super Giants [LSG] open their account in...
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 05 April 2026, valid...
Sameer Rizvi picked up his second Player-of-the-Match award in as many games in IPL 2026, this time scoring 90 off...
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 04 April 2026, valid...
Iran has executed two men convicted of being members of the banned People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) opposition group,...
An earthquake in Afghanistan has killed eight members of the same family when their home collapsed in the Gosfand Dara...
A press briefing on the economic stabilization process and the proposed relief packages for the public was held on Thursday (26) at the Presidential Media Center...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 27 December 2024 by the Department of Meteorology Misty conditions can be expected at some places in Western, Sabaragamuwa,...
There have been 28 incidents of shooting, out of which 16 were carried out by organised criminal groups during the past three months, Police Media Spokesman,...
The SJB alleges that the government has launched a campaign to politicise the public service as never before, with a view to influencing the outcome of...
The shortage of medicinal drugs would be resolved by 2026, Deputy Minister of Health Dr Hansaka Wijemuni announced on Wednesday (25). Speaking in Kandy, Dr Wijemuni...
Dinasena Rathugamage Health officials in the Northern Province say the number of dengue cases in Jaffna has increased again due to the recent heavy rains in...
A severely burned body was found in the rear seat of a vehicle near a shrine in the jungle along the Habarana-Polonnaruwa main road on Wednesday...
by Geewananda Gunawardana It is encouraging that the piece on agnotology and ethnicity (The Island December 4, 2024) elicited an erudite discourse (‘Ethnicity and genetics –...
Friday 27th December, 2024 A cascade of tectonic shifts triggered by the 2022 uprising or Aragalaya during the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government has reshaped Sri Lanka’s politics...
Key survey shows an increase in employment in 2024 compared to 2023 Unemployment problem more acute for educated females than educated males By Sanath Nanayakkare Most...
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” Cassandra quotes below a poet she never could enjoy – Alfred Lord Tennyson...
The first and only tsunami that Sri Lanka experienced was on Boxing Day(26th) of December 2004. My wife and I, as usual, went down to Modara...
