Election monitors have strongly condemned JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva’s Jaffna declaration that the long-delayed Provincial Council polls couldn’t be...
The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) says Sri Lanka’s total exports, comprising merchandise and services, reached US$ 1,380.93 million...
The Paddy Marketing Board has approximately 115,000 metric tonnes of paddy stocks purchased from farmers, which are currently stored in...
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the resolution furnished by the President in his capacity as the Minister of Finance,...
With the objective of improving the productivity of paddy cultivation, a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the agricultural sector...
The National Building Research Institute [NBRI] has extended the landslide early warnings issued to the districts of Kalutara, Kegalle, Nuwara...
A meeting between Upcountry Hindu Priests and the Secretary to the President, Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake, was held this morning...
Royal Challengers Bengaluru [RCB] might look at Gujarat Titans [GT] across the ring in Qualifier 1 of IPL 2026, and...
The United States has launched strikes on targets in southern Iran, the US military has said, as Tehran’s top negotiators...
Pope Leo XIV has called for the “disarming” of artificial intelligence (AI), warning that “new forms of slavery” are tied...
The Sri Lanka Cricket selection panel has handed the white-ball captaincy to Kusal Mendis for the upcoming all-format tour of...
Cambodia’s former opposition leader Kem Sokha, who was serving a 27-year sentence for treason, has been pardoned, the country’s former...
Rohingya detainees: Mujibur seeks AKD’s intervention by Shamindra Ferdinando Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananda Wijepala yesterday (05) said that investigations were underway to ascertain...
‘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...
