Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa has alleged that the current government is attempting to suppress freedom of expression and...
Vegetable prices at the Peliyagoda Manning Wholesale Market surged to unusually high levels yesterday (26), raising concerns among consumers as...
Shafali Verma continued her superb form, cracking a 42-ball 79 as India brushed aside Sri Lanka once again to win...
With the recriminations well underway from an Ashes defeat, compounded by the fallout from some rather embarrassing off-field shenanigans, England were momentarily...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board took over the ownership rights of Chattogram Royals for the remainder of the Bangladesh Premier League...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya in her Christmas message, called upon everyone to uphold the true meaning of Christmas following...
A quick glance at the head to head record is enough to show the gulf between India and Sri Lanka...
With the objective of enhancing the living conditions of the agricultural community and increasing the contribution of the agricultural sector...
The Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education has entered into agreements with Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation General Limited...
20 Consultancy Boards have been established by now covering the production industries field with the objective of minimizing the policy...
The BCCI has raised the match fees in women’s domestic cricket, from INR 20,000 to INR 50,000 per day, for...
Gede Priandana, Indonesia’s 28-year-old right-arm quick bowler, has become the first to pick up five wickets in an over in...
Remembering a great Thomian Teacher on his 56th death anniversary (Republishing an article which appeared in The Island 7/03/14) The excitement of “big school” was tangible....
(Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography) In fact it was Rajiv who made an attempt to break the logjam The Parathasarathy proposals had...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma (Written in February 2019) My old friend, Lalith ended his brief journey on this planet last week. He has, over the past 70+...
(Excerpted from the Merrill Fernando autobiography) Infrequently, my preoccupation with my personal business was disrupted by unexpected but welcome interruptions, in the form of foreign travel...
I first met T Malli in the basketball court of St Sebastian’s College. I was the coach yet did not know how to tell him politely...
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” That pronouncement, translated from the Bhagavad Gita and quoted by the creator of the atom bomb as...
(Excerpted from Memories that linger: My Journey in the World of Disability by Padmani Mendis) Barbara McNamee was from Jamaica. She became my friend when we...
By Uditha Devapriya On Wednesday, August 9, the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute (LKI) unveiled its inaugural Foreign Policy Seminar. Titled “Changing Global Dynamics: Implications for Sri Lanka”,...
by Lorenz Pereira When I saw Daya Sahabandu’s name included in the publication on the 30 “Lions of Sri Lanka” cricket, I am not ashamed to...
By AN OCTOGENERIAN Trincomalee had derived its name from the anglicized version of the old Tamil word,‘ Thiru- kona-malai ‘ meaning ‘Lord of the Sacred Hill’....
TRUMP INCITES VIOLENCE – “REPUBLICANS MUST GET TOUGHER” by Vijaya Chandrasoma The criminal behavior of Donald J. Trump, since he stole the US presidency in 2016,...
(Excerpted from the Memoirs of a Cabinet Secretary by BP Pieris) That is the furthest that S.W.R.D.’s Committee was able to go (on the matter of...
