Influx of substandard drugs is of particular concern The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has warned of renewed and intensified...
Sri Lanka’s latest elephant census must result in immediate policy action, not remain a paper exercise, Centre for Environmental Justice...
Todd Murphy is firming to play his first home Test, after the SCG’s head curator declared the pitch’s green covering...
Palestine was the deadliest place to work as a journalist in 2025, with the Middle East as a whole the...
United States President Donald Trump has said that he will delay the implementation of tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets...
Australia batter Usman Khawaja will retire from international cricket following the fifth Ashes Test against England in Sydney this week....
Around 40 people have died after a fire ripped through a bar in a ski resort in southern Switzerland, police...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake visited the historic Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic) in Kandy on Thursday...
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as mayor of New York City, becoming the first Muslim and the youngest person...
Countries around the world are welcoming the New Year as midnight strikes from time zone to time zone. The island...
Highlighting the spirit of global and regional cooperation, the Sri Lanka Navy acknowledged the invaluable support by foreign warships, which...
A train driver has died and at least 40 people have been injured in a head-on rail collision near Peru’s...
The National Shoora Council (NSC) has urged Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe to submit the draft amendments to the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) for...
By Eng. Thushara Dissanayake Climate change is no more a matter of controversy as there is a scientific consensus on the occurrence with predictions of horrible...
By Kamal Bogoda The Ranil Wickremesinghe administration would soon sign the controversial Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), leader of the Lanka...
By Akitha Perera There were no queues for essential items because Sri Lanka had stopped repaying its debt and the queues would return once debt servicing...
By Tharishi Hewavithanagamage Thirteen years and billions of dollars later, director James Cameron has brought the much-anticipated sequel, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ to life! Despite...
By H.M. Samarakoon President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s solution to the economic crisis was taxing the people to penury, selling national assets and taking loans, General Secretary of...
The approval for Sri Lanka’s 2.9 billion U.S. dollar bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was likely to be delayed, a minister said on Wednesday....
By Lynn Ockersz It is quite some time since the term ‘reconciliation’ came to be used frequently in public discussion in Sri Lanka. This has been...
Rear Admiral (Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera, MP Dr. Nirmala Chandrahasan (NC), in her article “Reconciliation initiative – the bigger picture” published in The Island of 25 November,...
By Fr J.C. Pieris When we celebrate a birthday, we do not go back to the infancy of the person and celebrate that first day. If...
Friday 23rd December, 2022 It looks as if we were witnessing a replay of what played out during the UNP-led UNF government between 2001 and 2004,...
BY Rev. Fr. Eymard Fernando Catholic Bishop’s House,Kurunegala. Speaking about the Birth of Jesus hundreds of years before it happened, Prophet Isaiah announced, “For to us...
