Sri Lanka’s environmental protection framework is rapidly eroding, with weak law enforcement, politically driven development and the routine sidelining of...
IGP Priyantha Weerasooriya has issued a letter, warning police officers against presenting gifts to senior officers during festivals or special...
Polls have opened in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically...
Family sources have confirmed that the interment of singer Latha Walpola will be performed at the General Cemetery Borella on...
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been jailed for 15 years for abuse of power and money laundering, in...
New York has woken up to its heaviest snowfall in nearly four years after a winter storm blanketed parts of...
Thousands of flights have been cancelled and delayed in the United States due to winter storm Devin, airline monitoring website...
Thailand and Cambodia said they have signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of fierce fighting along their border that...
Sri Lankan singer Latha Walpola has passed away today (27) at the age of 92.
All the three games in this series have followed a similar pattern so far. India have won three tosses –...
For the first time in 19 matches, and nearly 15 years, England’s men experienced a Test victory in Australia as...
Shafali Verma continued her superb form, cracking a 42-ball 79 as India brushed aside Sri Lanka once again to win...
The Planters Association of Ceylon (PA) and United Planters of Southern India Sports Club (UPASI SC) successfully conducted their biennial sports festival from March 23 to...
Chairman of the National Committee on Delimitation of Divisions for Local Government Bodies Mahinda Deshapriya yesterday (11) handed over the committee’s preliminary draft report to Prime...
By Norman Palihawadane Four Lankan stowaways caught while travelling in a cargo ship conveying apparel exports to Europe from Sri Lanka had been handed over to...
Jaffna Central College won the Under 19 Division III Tier ‘A’ two-day cricket tournament title with a first-innings win over Maris Stella College Thimbirigaskatuwa in the...
By Ifham Nizam The Wildlife Conservation Department has given the green light to release 100,000 Toque monkeys under the friendship and animal exchange programme. A group...
Wednesday 12th April, 2023 The Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe government has made a mockery of the electoral process and the Election Commission (EC), which has had to keep postponing...
Need for rethink on Sri Lankan education By Professor W. A. J. M. De Costa Senior Professor and Chair of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University...
This is in reply to the article “Tragic Ignorance underlining the maligning of Born Again Christianity” in The Island of 07/04/2023. On what grounds does the...
OUR ECONOMY IS NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS OF OUR UNSKILLED FOREIGN WORKERS. Our Treasury was left with barely $ 50m and The Island...
By Dr. SIRI GALHENAGE Psychiatrist [Ret] “Reader , Looke/ Not on his picture, but his booke” [Ben Jonson, prefacing The First Folio of the collected works...
By Lynn Ockersz If you are blighting your youth, By hunching over a computer screen, And in the process losing your virility, O young people of...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne CSE trading was positive due to market speculation that Treasury Bill rates had come down at yesterday’s auction. This development positively impacted the...
