More than 200 Iranian sailors left stranded in Sri Lanka after a US torpedo attack are returning home after being...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, issuing a New Year message, extend his heartfelt wishes to all Sri Lankans for a peaceful...
Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, has landed in Iran as part of a delegation to hold high-level talks...
The Indonesian Navy Sailing Ship KRI BIMA SUCI – 945 arrived at the Port of Colombo on a goodwill visit...
Chennai Super Kings left the bottom of the table and joined four other teams on four points by achieving two...
About 250 Rohingya and Bangladeshis, including children, are missing after their boat capsized last week in the Andaman Sea, according...
President Donald Trump has suggested talks aimed at ending the war in Iran could resume this week, after negotiations collapsed...
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 14 April 2026, valid...
United States President Donald Trump’s planned naval blockade of Iran would further cripple international shipping, exacerbating the energy crisis roiling...
Vidarbha’s Praful Hinge, 24, etched his name into the IPL record books on debut, striking three times in his very...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
For important decision making there must be the push and pull of circumstance. For many of us in Ranil’s UNP the push was becoming as important...
Christell Wellness Centre clinched the prestigious ESQR award, marking yet another milestone in their illustrious journey. Professor Ramani Arsecularatne and daughter Dr. Shanika Arsecularatne, known for...
A Nation at a Crossroads: Sri Lanka’s university system has entered a moment of profound uncertainty as the National People’s Power (NPP) government advances a series...
With reference to the article titled “When Justice steps in: The Supreme Court breaks the Cycle of Ragging Impunity” (The Island – 14.12.2025) by J. A....
Book Review MTL Ebell is a well-known, established Sri Lankan writer, who has authored many publications winning the State Literary Award in 2008 for best short...
When cyclone Ditwah swept across Sri Lanka, communities faced not only the immediate impact of flooding, property damage and displacement but also the heightened risk of...
The third among siblings, and three years younger to me in a neighbouring family near to us in down Wedikanda Road in Ratmalana was Rohan who...
A five star 100-room Maldivian resort hotel property controlled by Browns Investments PLC has been disposed for USD 57.5 million, Browns Investment said in a stock...
Sri Lanka has the capacity to respond to disaster. Donors should let it. When floods swept through Sri Lanka in late November and early December, the...
“Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic,” wrote Alberto Moravia, the Italian novelist and journalist who knew fascism not as theory but as lived suffocation....
It is with deep sorrow that I share the passing of one of my dearests and most trusted friends of many years, Lakshman Balasuriya. He left...
A Sri Lankan delegation led by Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena has briefed Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha on their recent knowledge exchange programme in India,...
