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...
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...
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...
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...
From being denied jobs for wearing a hijab to more implicit forms of exclusion, as revealed by a recent study, the women are struggling.New Delhi, India...
India expects bilateral trade worth $8-9 billion with Russia and Sri Lanka in the next two months after it allowed international trade in rupees, India’s trade...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Everyone had to work together to prevent COVID-19 spread in the school system, Head of the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry Dr....
Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Reforms and Electoral Studies (IRES) Manjula Gajanayake has pointed out that the 145 SLPP MPs are without a popular mandate...
By Ifham Nizam The scholarly clergy group, the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama, yesterday urged its followers to come forward to assist the needy and affected due...
By Chandra Amerasekare For most Sri Lankan expatriates concerned about the plight of their kith and kin struggling to survive in Sri Lanka, it was heartening...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday stressed Sri Lanka’s firm commitment to the one-China policy as well as the provisions of the UN Charter on the principles of...
Michael Schaffer in the Sunday Island of 31 July gave us a detailed account of one rogue (I am bold enough the use that word) in...
