Speaker Dr Jagath Wickramaratne yesterday (09) delivered a ruling under Standing Order 27(3), declaring out of order a motion submitted...
A two-year-old elephant calf was killed in a collision with a truck on the Anuradhapura–Padeniya road in the Galgamuwa Mee...
Nadine de Klerk’s sensational late onslaught, eerily reminiscent of the heist that turned the tables on India at the 2025...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called anti-government protesters “troublemakers” and “a bunch of vandals” just trying “to please...
Warning for deep depression to the East of Sri Lanka. Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre of the...
The second T20I between Sri Lanka and Pakistan which was to be played at Dambulla was abandoned without a ball...
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has told the BBC that he believes there is now a “real threat” of US military...
The landslide early warning center of the National Building Research Organisation [NBRO] has issued RED warnings to the districts of...
In its fourth season, the WPL now feels part of the system, shaping careers and standards in increasingly visible ways....
Huge crowds of protesters have been marching through Iran’s capital and other cities, videos show, in what is said to...
As Sri Lanka arrive on the doorstep of another World Cup, there is the usual attendant instability. The captain has...
Nasa has said it will return a four-person crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), cutting short their mission a...
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BY Fr J.C. PIERIS SJ Dr Bilesha Weeraratne said in The Island of 08/07/22: “The decision by the Cabinet to partially lift the Family Background Report...
An efficient mechanism is required to guarantee that disclosures made at parliamentary watchdog committees on the basis of Auditor General’s reports are used to further investigate...
by Dr. Justice Chandradasa Nanayakkara Buddha Dhamma does not seek to propagate any political ideology. Its primary purpose is the liberation of individuals from pervasive suffering,...
Wednesday 13th July, 2022 Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidency became a huge problem, and his resignation is also likely to be problematic, for it has led to a...
By Chaminda Silva It will take at least four months to hold a general election under the present circumstances, President of the Election Commission, Nimal Punchihewa...
By Ifham Nizam The All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU), the Islamic clergy body of scholars, yesterday stressed that the Government should fulfill the demands of the...
Ven. Omalpe Sobitha Thera yesterday (12) urged protesters to vacate the President’s House, Presidential Secretariat (old Parliament building) and Temple Trees as soon as President Gotabaya...
Sprinter Yupun Abeykoon, steeplechaser Nilani Ratnayake and middle-distance runner Gayanthika Abeyratne left for Oregon yesterday to take part in the World Athletics Championships which commences in...
The Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) yesterday urged the President, the Prime Minister and the remaining Cabinet Ministers to resign immediately and hand over the reins...
Sri Lanka beat Australia by an innings and 39 runs to win the second Test with a day to spare in Galle on Monday. Here are...
External Sector Performance – May 2022 The import expenditure declined, while earnings from exports increased in May 2022, year-on-year, extending the contraction in the trade deficit...
By Lynn Ockersz The ‘Long Arm of the Law’, Often clumsy and paralyzed, Is dead on target this time around, Brutally bloodying the pleading lass, Her...
