The Auditor General has warned that delays in coal procurement and continued reliance on suppliers of questionable standards could disrupt...
In the wake of the National Development Bank (NDB) PLC having to publicly acknowledge a loss of as much as...
Peshawar Zalmi held their nerve to beat Hyderabad Kingsmen off the final ball in a tense four-wicket win in the...
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has ruled that all the benched players are not allowed to...
Why did David Miller refuse a single off the penultimate delivery with Delhi Capitals needing 2 off 2? It’ll be...
Greece has announced plans to ban access to social media for under-15s, becoming the latest European country to restrict children’s...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 4.30 p.m. on 08 April 2026, valid...
United States President Donald Trump has agreed to suspend his planned bombing of Iran for two weeks, following his threat...
Heavy rain in Guwahati delayed the start of the match between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Mumbai Indians (MI) by more...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 07 April 2026, valid...
BY CYRIL WIMALASURENDRE KANDY – The Late General Denzil Kobbekaduwa will be commemorated in Kandy today (27) on his 83rd birth anniversary. A floral tribute is scheduled...
The first Sri Lanka born woman to be elected to Australia’s Federal Parliament in Canberra was here recently. Cassandra Fernando (35) migrated with her parents to...
From: M.A. Kaleel, Kalmunai Corr. Senior Professor Pathmalal M. Manage has been appointed the Vice Chancellor of Sri Jayewardenepura University for a term of three years...
Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN Mohan Peiris deposited the instrument of ratification by Sri Lanka of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) at a ceremony...
RW’s report before COPA The Committee on Public Finance, chaired by (Dr.) Harsha de Silva, expressed his displeasure at the absence of Finance Ministry officials summoned...
by Sanath Nanayakkare The dominance of the fiscal policy used by the government over the Monetary Policy of the Central Bank is set to wax and...
The Hambantota International Port (HIP) has increased its bunker supplies nearly six times more than their 2022 volumes in the current year. As of June 2023,...
Former US State Department employee Daya Gamage yesterday found fault with our Foreign Ministry for what he called the government’s pathetic response to unsubstantiated Canadian charge...
The Navy retrieved about 606 kg (wet weight) of Kendu leaves adrift in the sea, during a search conducted close to the Mattutivu Island in Kalpitiya...
This is a tribute to a senior schoolmate, a fellow boarder at the school by the Beira lake, a scribe to The Island newspaper writing in...
What prompted me to write this letter was the concluding paragraph in Dr. Upul Wijayawardhana’s excellent article, Viceroys’ undermining Sri Lanka’s sovereignty’ published in The Island 24.07.2023. It...
Former Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Prof. Charitha Herath, MP, told The Island yesterday that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) couldn’t sidestep the Auditor...
