Dr. Harsha points out masses are burdened with cascading taxes While online casinos and betting roam free without being taxed...
Apropos ‘Creditor receives USD 2.5 mn as Lankan public bears loss from theft of Treasury funds’, government sources told The Island that...
A coalition of Canada’s biggest news outlets is suing OpenAI, the maker of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, alleging the company is illegally using news articles to...
Rebel forces in Syria have taken control of several neighbourhoods in the country’s second-largest city, Aleppo, according to the UK-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human...
Weather forecast issued at 5.30am by the Department of Meteorology The Cyclonic Storm “FENGAL” [pronounced as FEINJAL] over Southwest Bay of Bengal was located about 360...
By A.J.A. Abeynayake Five prominent political figures, including former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, have yet to appear before the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to provide statements regarding...
Over 130 irrigation tanks/weirs under the Department of Agrarian Development have been damaged by the floods.Commissioner General of Agrarian Development Rohana Rajapaksha said most of the...
About 4,000 wild elephants have died in Sri Lanka during the last 14 years, according to Sameera Weeratunga of the Udawalawe Elephant Research project. He said...
Rex Clementine in Durban South Africa heaped further misery on Sri Lanka in Durban, piling up 366 for five before declaring at tea, leaving the tourists...
By Rathindra Kuruwita The majority of Chinese-funded projects in Sri Lanka were profit-making venture despite attemps by certain secions to make them out to be white...
The deep depression over the southwestern Bay of Bengal, which brought heavy rains and strong winds to Sri Lanka in recent days, will dissipate from today...
Sri Lanka has regained political stability after a prolonged period of uncertainty, the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), Dr Nandalal Weerasinghe, stated...
Saturday 30th November, 2024 A tragic incident where a car, reportedly guided by Google Maps, plunged off a bridge under construction, killing three persons in India...
by Dinaseana Rathugamage The Governor of the Northern Province, Nagalingam Vethanayagam, on 28 Nov., instructed the demolition of unauthorised constructions that had contributed to the recent...