Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya yesterday sad that the Executive Presidency would be abolished, in line with the NPP’s election manifesto....
Leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament yesterday that the suspension of duties imposed on Dr. Rukshan Bellana, Deputy Director of the...
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...
Devon Conway brought up a double-century and pushed New Zealand into such a strong position in Mount Maunganui that they...
At times during the first half of the third day at Adelaide Oval, England threatened to keep their Ashes hopes...
The landslide early warning center of the National Building Research Organisation [NBRO] has extended the landslide early warnings issued to...
TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance has signed binding agreements with US and global investors for the majority of its business in...
Friday 24th November, 2023 Sri Lanka’s cricket crisis has become internationalised. Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe and the Opposition insist that some Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) officials...
By Uditha Devapriya There is a point in Killers of the Flower Moon where it stops becoming a film and transforms into an experience. I found...
(24 Nov 1923 – 24 Nov 2023) by Kumar de Silva With his 21-year tenure as Principal of Wesley College from 1962-1983, Arthur Shelton Wirasinha goes...
BOOK REVIEW By Ifham Nizam The idea of exploration for its own sake is associated very much with Western culture. The Sinhala word for this pursuit—gaveshanaya,...
Unique Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures At Barefoot Gallery 24 November 2023 – 7 p.m. 10 December The Exhibition will remain open until 10th December 2023...
By Dinasena Ratugamage A tusker was electrocuted on Wednesday night (22) when it was caught in an electric trap laid to protect a farm at Oddusuddan,...
by Chandre Dharmawardana chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca The Supreme Court has ruled (with one dissenting against four assenting voices) on 14th November 2023 that three members of the Rajapaksa...
In a televised discussion, Pramitha Tennakoon, State Minister of Defence, highlighted Sri Lanka’s need to produce 122 electronic navigational charts covering the Sea of Sri Lanka,...
By Dinasena Ratugamage Police stations in and around Jaffna have received complaints from 23 residents who were swindled to the tune of 180 million rupees by...
The Island editorial of Wednesday November 22, as usual or as always, says it as it should be said; hits the nail bang on its head;...
On the 14th of November 2023, renowned Sri Lankan food brand KIST commemorated a new initiative to bolster the use of locally sourced tomatoes for value...
All set for the inaugural Jaffna MICE Expo 2023 organized by the Sri Lanka Convention Bureau (SLCB) under the patronage of Ministry of Tourism and Lands....
