SJB MP Dayasiri Jayasekera has sought the intervention of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to pressure the JVP-NPP government to respect...
UNP Vice President and Kandy District Leader, Navin Dissanayake, on Saturday, stressed that any proposed merger between the UNP and...
The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has issued landslide early warnings to the districts of Badulla, Kalutara, Kandy, Kegalle, Kurunegala,...
The Philippine House of Representatives has voted to impeach Vice-President Sara Duterte for a second time, threatening her plan to...
An American and a French national who have returned to their home countries having left a cruise ship hit by...
For a man who spent most of the past 20 years in exile, and the past eight months in jail,...
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) head coach Andy Flower has been fined 15% of his match fee for breaching Level 1...
A two-paced, up-and-down pitch in Raipur was the stage for one of the most enthralling contests of IPL 2026, and...
Urvil Patel played the kind of innings that erased a bit of history and created a bit of history. In...
Debutant Azan Awais’ century was the centrepiece of Pakistan’s spirited reply on the third day, before bad light forced early...
Spain has started evacuating passengers from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship anchored near Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Health Minister Mónica...
Bangladesh Cricket Board picked only two pacers – Marufa Akhter and Fariha Islam Trisna – for the upcoming ICC T20...
The Opposition is pressing for a one-day debate on USD 2.5 mn Treasury theft, which is more like a daylight robbery that had been kept under...
Sri Lanka Cricket President Shammi Silva had outlasted three Executive Presidents – Maithripala Sirisena, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe – and looked set to see off...
Wednesday 29th April, 2026 The police yesterday intervened to prevent a clash between a group of JVP activists and some Opposition politicians who held a protest...
An accountant and a management assistant at the Mullaitivu District Hospital were arrested by the sleuths of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption...
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) now defines a living wage as the wage level necessary for workers and their families to afford a decent standard of...
What has happened to our beloved nation, its loving people, and our once high-esteemed culture? At a time when the country has become the cynosure of...
A quiet but powerful reform in Brazil is challenging traditional thinking about prisons. Instead of viewing incarceration purely as punishment, Brazil has introduced a system that...
Aitken Spence Elevators, in collaboration with CINEC Campus, recently held the Certificate Awarding Ceremony for the latest batch of trainees of the Elevator Serviceman Course at...
St. Joseph’s College produced a spirited recovery after an early batting collapse to reach 226 for four at stumps against Royal College on a rain-curtailed opening...
UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has turned down SJB leader Sajith Premadasa’s invitation for his party to join the SJB-led May Day rally at P.D. Sirisena ground....
Echoes of ‘The Walk for Peace’ The international Walk for Peace’ reaching Colombo, joined by a large number of monks and devotees, led by spiritual leader...
This essay was presented at The Philosophy Group of the University of London about 20 years ago. The thought provoking essay published in The Island on...
