A simmering confrontation between the government and the powerful Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) trade unions intensified yesterday, with the latter...
Of over 37,000 held in country’s prisons, nearly 27,000 are suspects Dumbara Prison built to accommodate 699 persons is now...
Rain in Bulawayo allowed just ten overs of action between Bangladesh and New Zealand . The match began an hour...
The first over of the 202 chase set the tone for what followed as Australia cruised past Japan at the...
There is officially a traffic jam in the WPL points tale. A day after RCB qualified for the playoffs, Delhi...
In Windhoek, Sri Lanka strode to 267 for 5, with Vimath Dinsara hitting 95, and Chamika Heenatigala hitting 51. That...
South Africa monstered the Tanzania side over in Windhoek, Muhammed Bulbulia and Jason Rowles hitting hundreds to get South Africa...
Pakistan quick Ali Raza rattled Scotland with his pace early on, before left-arm wristspinner Momin Qamar helped take down the...
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya departed Sri Lanka on this morning (19 January) to participate in the 56th Annual Meeting...
Several people have been killed in a blast in Afghanistan’s Kabul, the Taliban Interior Ministry said. The explosion occurred on...
Senegal stormed off the field in protest at a penalty awarded against them before returning to beat hosts Morocco 1-0...
At least 21 people have been killed after a crash involving high-speed trains in southern Spain, as authorities warn the...
It’s hard to capture in a few words the flavour of Upali Wijewardene, the founder of the Upali Group, who tragically went out of this world...
ICC T20 World Cup Tournament’s highest wicket taker Wanindu Hasaranga and Charith Asalanka have been named in the official ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Most Valuable...
By Rohan Abeywardena For the 35th anniversary of The Island five years ago, when our editor Prabath Sahabandu asked me to pen a piece for that issue, I...
By Chitra Weerarathne Gay people should not be marginalised, several petitioners have complained to the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal on 30 Nov. will...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne The CSE fell 2.5 percent at the beginning of trading yesterday subsequent to Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s 2022 budget presentation due to the...
“We have turned into a cultural desert, the sort that Ananda Coomaraswamy warned against a hundred years or so ago …. By Uditha Devapriya The Island...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana “Since we’re in the Emerald Isles here, let me quote the Bard, William Shakespeare,” said the media darling and former President well...
…strategy in line with post-2020 general election By Shamindra Ferdinando Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila has reiterated that the rebel group within the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna...
DIMO, one of the leading diversified conglomerates in the country and the only Authorized distributor for TATA vehicles in Sri Lanka, recently delivered 25 TATA LPK...
Speculation that worker remittances will be forcibly converted into Sri Lankan Rupees under the proposed Securitised Financing Arrangement (SFA) is completely unfounded, the Central Bank of...
By Rathindra Kuruwita COVID-19 cases were rising in the country, and it was a bad sign for the future, Clinical Technical Lead of the Home-based Care...
Hemas Holdings PLC in its journey of Making Healthful Living Happen in Sri Lanka” launches the ‘Say Yes to Life’ campaign to create awareness and educate...
