BASL condemns Ranjan Jayalal for obstructing lawyer The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday strongly condemned Kaduwela Mayor Ranjan...
Electricity consumers have opposed a government plan to obtain loans from the World Bank to meet the cost of repairs...
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that steps are being taken to abolish the Executive Presidency and establish a parliamentary...
The full speech delivered by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Parliament (2025-12-19) “Today, we have presented to Parliament the largest...
The IMF Executive Board approved emergency financing under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI), providing Sri Lanka with immediate access to...
In response to severe weather impacts, the Sri Lanka Navy conducted a diving and technical assistance operation on Friday (19...
The Landslide Early Warning Centre of the National Building Research Organization (NBRO) has extended the Landslide Early Warning issued to...
The United States military is “striking very seriously against ISIS [ISIL] strongholds in Syria”, President Donald Trump said, a week...
Pakistan marched into the final of the Under 19 Asia Cup with a clinical eight wicket win over Bangladesh in...
Vihaan Malhotra and Aaron George’s patient half-centuries helped India beat Sri Lanka in a rain-reduced game and set up an...
Dasun Shanaka will be Sri Lanka’s T20I captain until the end of the forthcoming T20 World Cup. The move to...
GovPay, Sri Lanka’s Government Digital Payment Platform concluded the year 2025 by surpassing Rs. 2 billion in total digital transaction...
With reference to the article titled “When Justice steps in: The Supreme Court breaks the Cycle of Ragging Impunity” (The Island – 14.12.2025) by J. A....
Book Review MTL Ebell is a well-known, established Sri Lankan writer, who has authored many publications winning the State Literary Award in 2008 for best short...
When cyclone Ditwah swept across Sri Lanka, communities faced not only the immediate impact of flooding, property damage and displacement but also the heightened risk of...
The third among siblings, and three years younger to me in a neighbouring family near to us in down Wedikanda Road in Ratmalana was Rohan who...
Sri Lanka has the capacity to respond to disaster. Donors should let it. When floods swept through Sri Lanka in late November and early December, the...
“Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic,” wrote Alberto Moravia, the Italian novelist and journalist who knew fascism not as theory but as lived suffocation....
It is with deep sorrow that I share the passing of one of my dearests and most trusted friends of many years, Lakshman Balasuriya. He left...
A Sri Lankan delegation led by Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena has briefed Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha on their recent knowledge exchange programme in India,...
The Lanka Samasamaja Party was born on the 18th of December 1935. It was more than the birth of a party. It was the birth of...
It was so sudden! I have known Padmini as a French student in the 70s. She was recognized at the Non Aligned Conference in 1976 by...
LESSONS FROM MY CAREER: SYNTHESISING MANAGEMENT THEORY WITH PRACTICE – PART 28 In the previous two episodes of this series, I wrote about how I ventured...
Sri Lanka Customs has agreed to release 166 vehicles imported from China by John Keells Holdings, the Court of Appeal was told on Friday (19). The...
