Engineers at the Ceylon Electricity Board have drawn a clear red line over the government’s plan to gazette the appointed...
The annual Colombo Navam Maha Perahera, along with an exhibition of sacred relics brought from India, will be held at...
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...
Joe Root struck his 45th ODI fifty and with it helped England snap an 11-match losing streak away from home,...
A Sri Lankan innings that never really got going eventually parked itself at middling total of 219, as they were...
It is now official: Scotland have replaced Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup 2026 starting in India and Sri Lanka...
At least seven people have died and more than 80 others are missing after a landslide hit Indonesia’s West Java...
Protesting the lack of real freedom in the country Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith did not attend Independence Day ceremony on Feb. 4 because of the...
The High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi on Friday (Feb. 4) named its Chancery Building after Sir D.B. Jayatilaka, Sri Lanka’s first representative to...
by Uditha Devapriya It’s not really Basil Rajapaksa’s fault. When the country’s Finance Minister announced that the government had requested IMF for advice and expected a...
(In agreement with Dr Ratnajeeva Hoole’s recent article) BY GOOLBAI GUNASEKARA The so-called miserliness of the Jaffna Tamil may be fodder for amusing the script writer...
Pledges to reverse fertilizer policy SJB parliamentarian Eran Wickramaratne says that his party has decided to allow the use of chemical fertilizer in order to promote...
by Rex Clementine The first few Interim Committees that were appointed two decades ago were timely and catered to needs of those times. But subsequently, the...
Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, has launched a new offer for passengers visiting Dubai with friends and family, when booking by February 6, 2022. Two...
CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY By Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum...
I read with interest a letter by HM Nissanka Warakaulle (HMNW) in the Sunday Island of January 30. It was very comprehensive and dealt with the...
The renaissance of fashion is a sign of women’s growing independence, and has fueled the religious right’s ire, a recent article in the Guardian revealed. Excerpts:...
by Charitha. P. de Silva At about this time (1972) Mrs B’s government introduced tax incentives to encourage the building of hotels. I had already indicated...
‘Our objective is to do what is right by the country, and not to please everyone’ * Threats from local and foreign elements * Despicable efforts...
