SJB Working Committee member and ex-SLPP lawmaker Charitha Herath says that all eyes are on the newly constituted Constitutional Council...
A Catholic Church–backed organisation, Just for Justice, has called on the government to immediately fast-track the extradition of Pulasthini Mahendran,...
The price of gold has risen above $5,000 (£3,659) an ounce for the first time, extending a historic rally that...
West Indies wristspinners, Micah McKenzie and Vitel Lawes, combined to take six wickets on a surface that had plenty of...
It took Australia U19s 32.5 overs, going at just around 3.5 runs an over for the majority of a belaboured...
India waltzed to their 11th straight series or tournament win in T20Is as they restricted New Zealand to 153, and...
Building on its success in seizing major narcotic stocks in 2025, the Navy continued to support the “A Nation United”...
Nihar Parmar produced an excellent all-round display as Japan comfortably defeated Tanzania by nine wickets at Windhoek in the first...
India bundled out New Zealand for a mere 135 in their final Group B fixture of the Under-19 World Cup...
Josh Hoey had said he was excited to take a shot at the world 800m short track record in Boston...
US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 100% tariff on Canadian goods if the country strikes a trade...
Pakistan’s participation at the upcoming Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 has been thrown into uncertainty after the PCB chairman Mohsin...
Reading the above captioned article in The Sunday Island of 20 February by Goolbai Gunasekera, I went down memory lane. During World War II, there was...
Premadasa: SJB has never betrayed the country By Saman Indrajith Public Security Minister Rear Admiral (retd) Sarath Weerasekara called on the SJB in parliament yesterday not...
Director-General of Legal Affairs of the Presidential Secretariat, Harigupta Rohanadeera yesterday (22) handed over to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena all the volumes, including the final report...
In terms of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) arranged by Norway in Feb 2002, Sri Lanka suspended the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). The then Premier Ranil...
Wednesday 23rd February, 2022 The western bloc may have thought that its rhetoric, threats and other intimidatory tactics would help browbeat Moscow into coming to terms...
In response to the controversial removal of middle-order batsman Bhanuka Rajapaksa from the Sri Lanka T20 squad for the upcoming Indian tour due to alleged fitness...
JVP MP Vijitha Herath told Parliament yesterday that the fuel prices would be increased again, soon. The MP said that the economic mismanagement of the government...
Lanka bracing itself for Geneva gauntlet Foreign Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris has told New Delhi-based diplomatic corps that the government is in the process of amending...
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Context counts, and context means geography and history. The dramatic Russia-Ukraine situation cannot be understood without a sense of history, by which...
SJB MP Dr. Harsha de Silva told a media briefing on Monday that the country was in complete disarray. Fuel was rationed, there were daily power...
Chief Government Whip Highways Minister Johnston Fernando yesterday told Parliament that the Opposition was bandying about figures as regards the third phase of the Central Expressway...
Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) and Civil Activists finalised a document listing the aspirations of Indian Origin Tamil Sri Lankans or Malayaha Thamils, TPA leader Mano Ganesan...
