The much-delayed Provincial Council (PC) elections cannot be held this year due to financial and legal constraints, JVP General Secretary...
More than 31,000 people across Sri Lanka have been affected by worsening weather conditions, as the southwest monsoon intensifies ahead...
Attacks on Ebola health facilities are intensifying in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the World Health...
Oil prices have fallen sharply amid tentative hopes for a deal to end the US-Israel war on Iran. Brent crude,...
Chasing the fourth playoffs spot, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) entered their match against Delhi Capitals (DC) at Eden Gardens hoping...
US President Donald Trump says he has instructed negotiators “not to rush into a deal” with Iran, after earlier suggesting...
It was a must-win game, and they were in early trouble, but Jofra Archer pulled off one of the IPL’s...
A suicide car bomb attack on a train carrying soldiers in Quetta, the capital of the southwestern Pakistani province of...
The National Building Research Organisation [NBRO] has issued landslide early warnings to the Districts of Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara, Kegalle, Nuwara...
A person has been shot and killed after they opened fire outside the White House, the US Secret Service has...
US President Donald Trump says an agreement with Iran has been “largely negotiated” and details will be announced soon. The...
A firefighting 87 from Sophie Devine propelled New Zealand from a perilous 11 for 4 to a series-squaring 14-run win...
Friday 28th October, 2022 The government does not seem to have realised the need to remain maniacally focused on the efforts being made to resolve the...
By Dr. Gotabhaya Ranasinghe We hear suggestions being voiced favouring the legalization of Cannabis (Marijuana) to increase foreign earnings to Sri Lanka.I, as a responsible citizen...
Suspect a member of Harak Kata’s gang’ – police By Shamindra Ferdinando A 31-year-old person recently arrested with 06 g and 400 mg of heroin has...
By Gwynne Dyer “Death to [fill in the blank]!” has been the slogan of choice chanted by Iranian protesters since the glory days of the Islamic...
by PRIYAN DE SILVA ‘Golden Breakfast Tea’ produced by Lumbini Tea Valley Ceylon received the GOLD AWARD in the breakfast tea category at the Leafies Awards...
Sri Lanka Law College’s moot team A emerged champions at the inaugural S.M. Musthapha Memorial Administrative Law Moot (SMMALM) 2022 at the finals held on Oct...
Sri Lanka among participants At 90th Interpol General Assembly, the Indian delegation had bilateral meetings with representatives from several countries to discuss matters related to police...
Tables have been turned by a single individual descendant of lineage from exploited India. And on whom have the tables been turned? On the British whose...
A new consignment of medicine worth over 35 million RMB (1.8 billion LKR) donated by China under its 500 million RMB emergency humanitarian assistance arrived Colombo...
By Capt Gihan A Fernando, MBA Honorary Life Member, Air Line Pilots’ Guild of Sri Lanka (affiliated the International Federation of Air Line Pilot Associations) Former...
by Chandre Dharmawardana, chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca Ravindra Jayananda (RJ), has written to The Island (18-10-2022) expressing concern on my article (14-10-22, The Island) entitled “Toxin gonibillas cry wolf...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne Sri Lanka is in the UK government’s special Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS), which aims at harnessing the power of trade to help...
