Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa has alleged that the current government is attempting to suppress freedom of expression and...
Vegetable prices at the Peliyagoda Manning Wholesale Market surged to unusually high levels yesterday (26), raising concerns among consumers as...
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...
With the recriminations well underway from an Ashes defeat, compounded by the fallout from some rather embarrassing off-field shenanigans, England were momentarily...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board took over the ownership rights of Chattogram Royals for the remainder of the Bangladesh Premier League...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya in her Christmas message, called upon everyone to uphold the true meaning of Christmas following...
A quick glance at the head to head record is enough to show the gulf between India and Sri Lanka...
By Chitra Weerarathne Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya and six other judges of the Supreme Court, yesterday reserved the final order in respect of the Fundamental Rights...
The Sri Lankan economy is expected to contract in the second half of 2022 as well, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has said in...
Disabled servicemen numbering 1,041 have asked the Ranaviru Seva Authority for wheelchairs last year, but only 352 have been distributed, the Annual Report of the Authority...
Ambassador of China to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong recently welcomed Prof. S. Srisatkunarajah, Vice Chancellor of the University of Jaffna and handed over Chinese Ambassador’s Scholarship...
A Brisbane-based company that invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses by listening to someone cough has been purchased by...
By Saman Gamage, Norman Palihawadana and Gamini Gunasinghe The STF on Wednesday arrested two drug dealers inside a school at Hikkaduwa with nine grams of heroin.The...
Veteran writer Dr. W. A. Abeysinghe, was awarded an Honorary Degree Doctor of Literature Sahithya Chakrawarthi for his outstanding contribution towards the literature and culture of...
By Saman Indrajith Thalangama Police on Wednesday arrested a Parliament employee with 100 grams of heroin.He is a crew member of a bus that belongs to...
By Uditha Devapriya The three films that Lester James Peries directed for Ceylon Theatres – Golu Hadawatha (1968), Akkara Paha (1969), and Nidhanaya (1970) – stand...
by Professor Panduka Karunanayake I was interested in two recent articles in The Island on the issue of the safety of green vegetables in our diet....
Cass is sick and tired, bone-weary of writing about the travails our beloved country is still going through; also disgusted of referring to some MPs and...
By Gwynne Dyer The reports about Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva’s impending comeback as Brazilian president verged on the ecstatic in the week before last Sunday’s...
