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...
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...
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...
‘Don’t forget Japanese Embassy raised issue at hand with GR’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Top SJB spokesman Mujibur Rahuman, MP, yesterday (04) said that President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday urged President Ranil Wickremesinghe to end what he termed the harassment of opposition political activists, human rights defenders,...
Difficulties procuring insurance, as well as logistical and security concerns, were some of the issues raised by sponsors and broadcasters that led to the Asia Cup...
The gunman makes good his escape By Hemantha Randunu A suspect who was giving evidence at the Mount Lavinia Magistrates’ Court was shot yesterday. The gunman...
The Department of Immigration and Emigration is investigating whether Kayleigh Fraser, the British national, whose passport has been taken into custody after she posted on social...
Chinese military fires several ballistic missiles in exercises state media framed as a war plan rehearsal.China has fired several ballistic missiles into the waters around Taiwan...
Minister of Foreign Affairs M.U.M. Ali Sabry is in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to take part in the forthcoming 29th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Ministerial Meeting yesterday...
By Rathindra Kuruwita The police no longer had adequate resources to deal with organised crime and that had led to an increase in gang related violence...
Friday 5th August 2022 Sri Lanka’s struggle to shore up its crumbling economy continues, and there are no signs of promised foreign assistance materialising anytime soon....
Hence China’s growing confidence, and Taiwan’s belated anxiety (an $8 billion boost to defence spending last January), and President Joe Biden’s attempts to reassure Taiwan by...
By Sirimantha Rathnasekera Prevailing inclement weather would improve after 10 August, Director General of the Met. Department, Athula Karunaratne said yesterday.The Director General told The Island...
The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) yesterday condemned the visit of Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to China’s Taiwan region. It...
