Interdicted Deputy Director at the National Hospital, Sri Lanka (NHSL) Dr. Rukshan Bellana yesterday (29) alleged that the powers that...
BIA unions, including those affiliated to political parties, are demanding bonuses equal to five months’ basic salaries. A group of...
After three low scores, three tosses lost and three heavy defeats, Sri Lanka gave hosts India more of a fight...
Donald Trump said he hoped to reach phase two of the Gaza peace plan “very quickly”, as he warned Hamas...
Bangladesh’s first female prime minister Khaleda Zia has died at the age of 80 after suffering from a prolonged illness....
President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied allegations by Russia that Ukraine launched a drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin’s...
After three one-sided, low-scoring encounters, the fourth T20I between India and Sri Lanka exploded into a run-fest in Thiruvananthapuram, with...
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...
by Reemus Fernando Royal College hurdler Nadun Bandara and sprinter Jayeshi Uththara of Holy Cross College, Gampaha won the best athlete titles of the boys’ and...
By Ifham Nizam The Department of Agrarian Development yesterday said that no cultivator in Sri Lanka had abandoned farming in the past few years. The Department’s...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne The CSE bounced back after four days of decline yesterday. The reason being that Lanka- IOC and Expolanka Holdings stocks showed some buying...
Dissident SLP MP Prof. Channa Jayasumana has said that the government will not be allowed to use the proposed 22 Amendment to introduce anything detrimental to the...
Wednesday 5th October, 2022 The Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe government has proved once again that probity is anathema to it. Its leaders have engineered the exclusion of dissident SLPP...
By Dr. C. S. Weeraratna csweera@sltnet.lk Sri Lanka is a land of villages. There are around 14,000 of them. According to the Dept. of Census and...
By DR L M K Tillekeratne Chairman of the National Development Committee of the ACBC It is a well-known fact that one the problems faced by...
Dr Parakrama Waidyanatha In an article titled ‘Throw more light on green foods’ that appeared in the Island of the 20th instant, Mr Gamini Peiris reports...
Under 19 Division I Cricket Tharusha Nethsara scored his second century of the tournament and Sithuka Gunawardena and Dasith Senal took three wickets each as Isipatana...
The Finance Ministry yesterday (04) quoted State Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya as having said that the Treasury faced the daunting task of increasing the revenue by Rs...
Wartime Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa is one of those who strongly believed that the LTTE could be defeated. The Gajaba Regiment veteran didn’t mince his words...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Dissident SLPP lawmaker Prof. G.L. Peiris has alleged that the Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe administration has allocated 320 vehicles for the recently appointed 38 State Ministers...
