The NPP government is trying to maintain a balance between continuing demands for releasing north-east land held by the military...
Colombo Chief Magistrate Lahiru de Silva yesterday granted bail to Yoshitha Rajapaksa, second son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, on...
Scotland take on West Indies in Leeds at 18:30 local time (17:30 GMT) in Group 2 of the Women’s T20...
Moscow has come under the largest Ukrainian attack since the start of the full-scale war, with close to 200 drones...
Oil prices have dropped following the United States and Iran’s signing of an interim peace agreement, resuming a slide interrupted...
Leaders of the G7 have pledged at a summit in France to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences and increase pressure on...
Ghana’s fans and players celebrated wildly as Caleb Yirenkyi finished a sweeping counterattack with a tap-in goal in the fifth...
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, has announced that a memorandum of understanding with the United States has...
A game that began with the prospect of a chastening defeat for Pakistan at South Africa’s hands did, indeed, end...
Australia gave themselves another significant net run-rate boost by dispatching Bangladesh with ease at Headingley, restricting them to 77 for...
In overcast Headingley conditions, an all-round performance from Shafali Verma, who scored her first fifty at a T20 World Cup,...
Several tankers carrying Iranian oil have crossed the United States blockade line in the Strait of Hormuz, according to a...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne The CSE edged down in mid-morning trade yesterday after opening over 1 per cent lower. Subsequently the market began to bounce back with...
SLT-MOBITEL, the National ICT solutions Provider has deployed its cloud-based eLearning solution, akaza Learning Management System (LMS) for Central Finance’s Digital Learning Hub to empower staff...
Over the past 40 years, the Solex Group of Companies (Pvt) Ltd has earned the respect and loyalty of many Sri Lankans as the country’s top...
The Monetary Board, with the concurrence of the Hon. Minister of Finance, has promoted Ms. K M A N Daulagala, Assistant Governor and the Secretary to...
Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in the Western, North-Western, Central and Sabaragamuwa provinces, and in the Galle and Matara districts today, the Department of...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has reiterated that a handful of persons who advised President Gotabaya Rajapaksa caused the unprecedented economic meltdown. Sabry has...
Wednesday 12th October, 2022 The resentful public is demanding elections, but the government is offering electoral reforms instead. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that unless political...
by Neville Ladduwahetty During the course of his address, as Chair of the 55th Annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank, Sri Lanka’s President, Ranil Wickremesinghe,...
On 05 October, 2022, The Island carried an article by Dr C. S. Weeraratna with the title “Deteriorating rural economy, and food Security”. On reading this,...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne Sri Lanka should expedite signing Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with big countries like China and also expand the current scope of the FTA...
Pre-trial conference on Dec 16 Colombo Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar yesterday (11) acquitted 10 suspects, including former Governor of the Central Bank Singaporean Arjuna Mahendran (Jan...
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has alleged that two persons, a doctor and a professor, who pressured the then government to continue with forcible cremation of Covid-19...
