Influx of substandard drugs is of particular concern The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has warned of renewed and intensified...
Sri Lanka’s latest elephant census must result in immediate policy action, not remain a paper exercise, Centre for Environmental Justice...
Todd Murphy is firming to play his first home Test, after the SCG’s head curator declared the pitch’s green covering...
Palestine was the deadliest place to work as a journalist in 2025, with the Middle East as a whole the...
United States President Donald Trump has said that he will delay the implementation of tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets...
Australia batter Usman Khawaja will retire from international cricket following the fifth Ashes Test against England in Sydney this week....
Around 40 people have died after a fire ripped through a bar in a ski resort in southern Switzerland, police...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake visited the historic Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic) in Kandy on Thursday...
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as mayor of New York City, becoming the first Muslim and the youngest person...
Countries around the world are welcoming the New Year as midnight strikes from time zone to time zone. The island...
Highlighting the spirit of global and regional cooperation, the Sri Lanka Navy acknowledged the invaluable support by foreign warships, which...
A train driver has died and at least 40 people have been injured in a head-on rail collision near Peru’s...
Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament yesterday (5) that charges against Sri Lanka at international human rights forums were being amply substantiated by the...
By Ifham Nizam The National Zoological Gardens in Dehiwela has recorded the highest income in a single day this year on the World Children’s Day which...
Parliamentary sessions would be extended by 30 minutes to allocate time for the SLPP dissident group MPs to participate in debates, a media statement issued by...
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...
