Government authorities are exploring the possibility of shifting public sector work online on April 16 and 17, to maintain essential...
SLPP National organiser MP Namal Rajapaksa yesterday said President Anura Kumara Dissanayake should be held responsible for the coal scam.Rajapaksa...
Kuwait says a power and desalination plant has been hit by an Iranian attack. Gulf countries continue to face retaliatory...
The Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Panel has named a 15-member squad for the upcoming Tri- Series tour of Australia, which...
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has announced the following appointments to the National High Performance Center: Ryan van Niekerk – National...
Sunrisers Hyderabad [SRH] became the first team in IPL 2026 to successfully defend a total, and for that, they had...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 02 April 2026, valid...
Former Matara District Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister Mahinda Wijesekara has passed away this morning (02) at the age...
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake has hit the Northern Molucca Sea off the coast of the city of Ternate, in Indonesia,...
An unbeaten 70 from Sameer Rizvi proved decisive in a low-scoring contest in Lucknow, where Delhi Capitals (DC) became the...
Across the world on Wednesday night, millions of people will tune in to watch Donald Trump deliver a primetime update...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 01 April 2026, valid...
By Akitha Perera and Ranil Dharmasena Sri Lanka imported over 70 million kilos of wheat in 2022, State Minister of Finance, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya told Parliament on...
A defiant 81 not out by Jason Holder ensured that West Indies’s first-innings deficit was kept down to only 69 runs on the second evening in...
By Rathindra Kuruwita It was being claimed in some quarters that spending money on local and provincial councils was a waste of valuable resources and that...
It was election time several years ago, and two candidates were vying for the Galle seat. A fellow club member took a thousand rupee bet with...
By Pradeep Prasanna Samarakoon and Chaminda Silva Around 10 percent of Sri Lankans suffer from kidney diseases, Dr. Sanjaya Heiyantuduwa. Consultant Nephrologist and adviser to Sri...
A special investigation report into the Galle Face Aragalaya has found that the police used tear gas past the expiry date on protesters.An exclusive report released...
Friday 10th March, 2023 Sri Lanka is now like Singapore thanks to its current leaders; it, too, has become a police state! The long arm of...
By Uditha Devapriya “The ideological direction of the journal will be radical in that it will unremittingly question the values and systems that hinder development. It...
KKS Perera in the Sunday Island of March 6 wrote on the Women’s Brigade of Suriyamal fame: Marxist independence struggle in the 30s/40s. It was good...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana In this era of despondency, one of the few things that keep our spirits up are The Island editorials. In addition to...
by PRIYAN DE SILVA The Global report on sodium intake reduction released by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that the world is off-track to achieve...
By C. A. Chandraprema The local government elections that were scheduled to be held on the 9th March will not be held and the alternative date...
