Sri Lanka’s environmental protection framework is rapidly eroding, with weak law enforcement, politically driven development and the routine sidelining of...
IGP Priyantha Weerasooriya has issued a letter, warning police officers against presenting gifts to senior officers during festivals or special...
Polls have opened in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically...
Family sources have confirmed that the interment of singer Latha Walpola will be performed at the General Cemetery Borella on...
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been jailed for 15 years for abuse of power and money laundering, in...
New York has woken up to its heaviest snowfall in nearly four years after a winter storm blanketed parts of...
Thousands of flights have been cancelled and delayed in the United States due to winter storm Devin, airline monitoring website...
Thailand and Cambodia said they have signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of fierce fighting along their border that...
Sri Lankan singer Latha Walpola has passed away today (27) at the age of 92.
All the three games in this series have followed a similar pattern so far. India have won three tosses –...
For the first time in 19 matches, and nearly 15 years, England’s men experienced a Test victory in Australia as...
Shafali Verma continued her superb form, cracking a 42-ball 79 as India brushed aside Sri Lanka once again to win...
By Norman Palihawadane Thihagoda Police Sub-Inspector, arrested in connection with an accidental discharge of a police firearm, and causing injury to a 15-year-old boy, in Thihagoda,...
TNA Jaffna District MP M. A. Sumanthiran says the proposal calling for the appointment of a select committee on amending the electoral system is another attempt...
COPF (Committee on Public Finance) Chairman and SJB MP, Dr Harsha de Silva, has demanded to know why the government allegedly shared the Staff-Level agreement with...
Sri Lanka’s worst post-war economic crisis represents a major blow to the country’s progress towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), efforts that were...
Faithful urged to refrain from making Christmas a ‘mere occasion for external celebrations’ Catholic bishops have urged devotees to provide medicines and dry rations for the...
Lankan High Commissioner in India, Milinda Moragoda, last week became one of the early customers of Maruti Suzuki’s newest offering, the Grand Vitara. R. C. Bhargava, Chairman of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, handed...
A probe into a recent cylinder blast, in a car, in Coimbatore, has revealed a link with the serial blasts that happened in the Tamil Nadu...
Monday 31st October, 2022 Some dissident SLPP MPs have warned that the government will fail to secure the passage of the upcoming budget and collapse as...
By Tom Sato and Saliya Weerakoon Walking into a creditor meeting without an actionable growth plan is like diving into a quagmire. Sri Lanka needs a...
The Island editorial on 26 Oct.2022 titled “Lucky criminals” was eye catching, as the Constitution of Sri Lanka itself permits the Executive to free criminals as...
ANI:Paul Pelosi, the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who a male assailant attacked on Friday morning, has undergone surgery for a skull fracture and...
Diabetes is a major killer of humans. It is very dangerous. It comes third or fourth after the chief killers namely, heart attacks and strokes. Anyone...
