Coal power generation falls by 27 GWh A sharp decline in coal-fired electricity generation in April 2026, compared to the...
Asith Siriwardena Counsel for former Director of State Intelligence Service, Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay, detained under the Prevention of...
AUSTRALIA For the first time since 2017, Australia do not have global silverware to defend, with last year’s ODI World...
Tamim Iqbal has been elected as the new BCB president following the elections held in Dhaka on Sunday. Tamim was...
With no play possible in the second ODI, both teams go into the third game well-rested. Perhaps this is a...
More than a million people lined the streets of Madrid on Sunday as Pope Leo XIV held an open-air mass...
South Africa successfully defended 136 in an 18-over game against Ireland in the Women’s T20 World Cup warm-up fixture in...
In the 11th over, KL Rahul edged a cut to the keeper off Ziaur Ahmed when he was on 16....
West Indies won the toss and put Sri Lanka into bat, but that was the extent of the action from...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 07 JUNE 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 07 June 2026 by the Department of Meteorology Showers...
Sunday marks 100 days into the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran. But as fighting and...
West Indies won the toss and put Sri Lanka into bat in what is a must-win second ODI in Jamaica...
By Eng. Thushara Dissanayake Climate change is no more a matter of controversy as there is a scientific consensus on the occurrence with predictions of horrible...
By Kamal Bogoda The Ranil Wickremesinghe administration would soon sign the controversial Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), leader of the Lanka...
By Akitha Perera There were no queues for essential items because Sri Lanka had stopped repaying its debt and the queues would return once debt servicing...
By Tharishi Hewavithanagamage Thirteen years and billions of dollars later, director James Cameron has brought the much-anticipated sequel, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ to life! Despite...
By H.M. Samarakoon President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s solution to the economic crisis was taxing the people to penury, selling national assets and taking loans, General Secretary of...
The approval for Sri Lanka’s 2.9 billion U.S. dollar bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was likely to be delayed, a minister said on Wednesday....
By Lynn Ockersz It is quite some time since the term ‘reconciliation’ came to be used frequently in public discussion in Sri Lanka. This has been...
Rear Admiral (Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera, MP Dr. Nirmala Chandrahasan (NC), in her article “Reconciliation initiative – the bigger picture” published in The Island of 25 November,...
By Fr J.C. Pieris When we celebrate a birthday, we do not go back to the infancy of the person and celebrate that first day. If...
Friday 23rd December, 2022 It looks as if we were witnessing a replay of what played out during the UNP-led UNF government between 2001 and 2004,...
BY Rev. Fr. Eymard Fernando Catholic Bishop’s House,Kurunegala. Speaking about the Birth of Jesus hundreds of years before it happened, Prophet Isaiah announced, “For to us...
Softlogic Finance PLC, a subsidiary of Softlogic Capital PLC, announced its recently concluded Rs 850mn Rights Issue which saw keen demand, and was successfully oversubscribed and...
