India wants to upgrade the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, signed in 2000 during Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s presidency. Declaring that...
Sri Lanka’s creditors were unlikely to classify the recent USD 2.5 million Treasury fund heist as a technical debt default,...
Three prison guards attached to the Welikada Prison have been arrested by Borella Police following the death of an inmate...
Spanish police have seized what is thought to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the...
Three people have died and a UK national is seriously ill in hospital after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a...
President Donald Trump says the US struck seven Iranian “fast boats” after vowing to help stranded vessels out of the...
There were smiles at last for Mumbai Imdians (MI) on a night that hadn’t looked promising when Nicholas Pooran’s fireworks...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 04 May 2026, valid...
President of the Maldives, Dr Mohamed Muizzu, who is on a State Visit to Sri Lanka at the invitation of...
For years, India’s West Bengal state was the great exception to Narendra Modi’s political advance. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
The top half of the IPL 2026 points table is an utter logjam.Punjab Kings (PBKS), unbeaten through their first seven...
Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine thrived on a slower-than-usual Hyderabad pitch to halt Sunrisers Hyderabad’s five-match winning streak in IPL...
The Iranian Embassy in Colombo has defended the Iranian government’s handling of recent unrest, claiming that initially peaceful economic protests were later hijacked by violent groups...
On 8 January 2026, I delivered a talk at an event at the University of Colombo marking the retirement of my longtime friend and former Professor...
Friday 16th January, 2026 Never a dull day in Sri Lanka, where controversies abound. As if the ongoing political war on the government’s hurriedly introduced education...
Climate change is no longer a distant or abstract threat to Sri Lanka’s biodiversity. It is already driving local extinctions — particularly among lizards trapped in...
Enabling Education-to-Income Pathways through Dual-Use Devices The deployment of tablets and Chromebook-based devices for emergency education following Cyclone Ditwah presents an opportunity that extends beyond short-term...
The Sri Lanka Muslim Media Forum (SLMMF) has successfully concluded a multi-phase humanitarian relief programme to support 36 journalists across the country who were severely affected...
Private tuition is well entrenched in most countries including rich countries like Singapore and Finland, which are believed to have the best education systems in the...
The Dispilio tablet is a wooden artefact bearing linear marks, unearthed in 1993 during George Hourmouziadis’s excavations of the Neolithic site of Dispilio in Greece. A...
The ocean waters surrounding Sri Lanka have cooled significantly over the past few days, with colder water moving from north to south along the eastern seaboard...
It was a real shock to read Prof. Tissa Vitarana’s piece “Nihal Seneviratne, an exemplary Secretary-General of Parliament” in the e-paper of The Island on Saturday...
JAT Holdings PLC marked a significant milestone with the successful conclusion of the 6th JAT Pintharu Abhiman Convocation, recognising more than 800 painters who have earned...
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, together with the American Chamber of Commerce, Exporters Association of Sri Lanka, Federation of Renewable Energy Developers, Joint Apparel Association Forum,...
