Government authorities are exploring the possibility of shifting public sector work online on April 16 and 17, to maintain essential...
SLPP National organiser MP Namal Rajapaksa yesterday said President Anura Kumara Dissanayake should be held responsible for the coal scam.Rajapaksa...
Kuwait says a power and desalination plant has been hit by an Iranian attack. Gulf countries continue to face retaliatory...
The Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Panel has named a 15-member squad for the upcoming Tri- Series tour of Australia, which...
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has announced the following appointments to the National High Performance Center: Ryan van Niekerk – National...
Sunrisers Hyderabad [SRH] became the first team in IPL 2026 to successfully defend a total, and for that, they had...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 02 April 2026, valid...
Former Matara District Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister Mahinda Wijesekara has passed away this morning (02) at the age...
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake has hit the Northern Molucca Sea off the coast of the city of Ternate, in Indonesia,...
An unbeaten 70 from Sameer Rizvi proved decisive in a low-scoring contest in Lucknow, where Delhi Capitals (DC) became the...
Across the world on Wednesday night, millions of people will tune in to watch Donald Trump deliver a primetime update...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 01 April 2026, valid...
By Samanthi Weerasekera The Kandy Police have arrested a constable deployed for duty at the limited overs encounter between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan at Pallekele stadium...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat is voting in local polls with his Hindu nationalist party expected to win a seventh straight term,...
By Pradeep Prasanna Samarakoon Malnutrition was on the rise among children under five Director of the Family Health Bureau (FHB) Dr. Chithramalee de Silva told journalists...
I am pleasantly surprised and marvel too most times I read the editorial in The Island. Why? Because they are so very apt on the most...
By George Braine Maris Stella College, Negombo, is celebrating its centenary this year. These are my recollections of the years I spent there.Maris Stella had classes...
AGC Innovate secures First Place AGC Innovate (Pvt) Ltd has been selected as the winner of the Country Finals of Innovate Lanka 2022 Competition, organized by the...
BY Dr. C. S. Weeraratna csweera@sltnet.lk According to United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security, “Food security is achieved when all people, at all times, have...
By R.A.S. Premathilake Wadduwa Police on Wednesday evening arrested a youth who had produced an airgun by watching YouTube videos.The airgun was four feet in length,...
A discussion was held recently at the President’s Office yeas morning under the chairmanship of President Ranil Wickremesinghe to identify land for the promotion of the...
The Ministerial Consultative Committee on Plantation Industriesdecided that the government must look at the acquisition of underutilized land owned by large-scale plantation companies.At a recent meeting...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana When the Buddha was asked who would be the successor, the unhesitating answer was that it was the Dhamma. He wanted the...
Friday 2nd December, 2022 A diplomat attached to the Sri Lankan Embassy in Muscat has been arrested upon his arrival at the BIA and remanded for...
