Mounting concerns over drug safety and regulatory oversight have triggered strong calls from medical professionals and trade unions for the...
China has pledged its full support to Sri Lanka’s economic and social recovery efforts in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah,...
Winter storms are worsening conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, as aid agencies warn that Israeli...
An official meeting was held between Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC)...
The landslide early warning centre of the National Building Research Organization [NBRO] has issued Level III landslide early warnings to...
Astonishingly, this Ashes series is just seven days old, but it remains in no mood to slow down and take...
Sri Lanka has named a young squad for the forthcoming T20Is against India, bringing in the likes of 17-year-old ambidextrous...
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya was the chief guest at the Graduation Ceremony of the Defence Services Command and Staff...
US President Donald Trump has filed a $5bn (£3.7bn) lawsuit against the BBC over an edit of his 6 January...
The Situation Report issued by the Disaster Management Center at 06:00AM on 16th December 2025 shows that 70,297 persons belonging...
New South Wales Police say 15 people, including a 10 year old girl were killed in a shooting at Bondi...
The ninth phase of the islandwide programme to recognise outstanding achievers at the G.C.E. Advanced Level implemented by the Presidential...
Police, who are questioning underworld leader Ganemulla Sanjeewa, have uncovered a hidden arms cache.A large number of policemen and STF commandos are deployed at the Weeragula...
The Monetary Board of the Central Bank has decided to reduce the Standing Deposit Facility Rate and the Standing Lending Facility Rate by 200 basis points...
By Sirimantha Rathnasekera Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) leader and Minister of Water Supply and Estate Infrastructure Development, Jeevan Thondaman yesterday said that the plantation Tamil community...
Friday 6th October, 2023 President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent interview with Deutsche Welle (DW), in Berlin, has been trending in the digital realm—not for all the right...
By Neville Ladduwahetty President Ranil Wickremesinghe eloquently outlined the current global economic crisis affecting the developing world, in particular the Global South, during his speech at...
By Uditha Devapriya Sena, the protagonist of Madawala S. Ratnayake’s Akkara Paha, embodies for me the hopes and frustrations of the rural Sinhala youth after 1956....
In a scathing indictment of Sri Lanka’s governance landscape, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had handed down a damning verdict, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Harsha...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana My previous writings bear testimony to the fact that I have not been a great admirer of Ranil in the past but...
By Rathindra Kuruwita There is a shortage of 800,000 houses in the country, former Chairman of the Housing Development Authority (NHDA) Lakvijaya Sagara Palansuriya says.Palansuriya said...
Sri Lanka Air Force and SriLankan Airlines signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Air Force Headquarters on 04 October 2023 to strengthen the collaboration...
Cassandra is sick and tired of our country’s politics, governance and administration. They stink and make no correct delivery. The Island newspaper of Tuesday October 03...
by Gunadasa Amarasekera (A talk given by Gunadasa Amarasekera at the Royal Asiatic Society (Continued from yesterday) The net result of these debates was the production...
