By Saman Indrajith From June this year, mobile phone users in Sri Lanka will be able to retain their existing...
By Saman Indrajith Speaker Dr Jagath Wickramaratne informed Parliament on Friday that security-related requests made by Members of Parliament have...
Ryan Rickelton is showing the value of runs under the belt. He came into the Champions Trophy on the back...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 22 FEBRUARY 2025 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 22 February 2025 by the Department of Meteorology Misty conditions can...
Three buses have exploded in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, in what Israeli police say is a suspected terror...
The Sri Lanka Navy seized three Indian fishing boats and apprehended 10 Indian fishermen while they were poaching in Sri...
Shubman Gill dug deep for his slowest ODI hundred and India’s slowest in the last six years to see India...
The Cabinet of Ministers granted approval to the resolution furnished by the Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation...
The Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association (SASA) has expressed its appreciation for the 2025 budget, highlighting its development-focused approach and...
Chamari Athapaththu is set to miss the final phase of the WPL for UP Warriorz (UPW) to join Sri Lanka...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 20 FEBRUARY 2025 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 20 February 2025 by the Department of Meteorology Misty...
President Trump has launched a fresh attack on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling him a “dictator” and deepening the rift...
Chairman – Priyantha Fernando and Executive Director/CEO Krishan Thilakaratne Commercial Leasing and Finance PLC (CLC) concluded FY2019/20 on an impressive note, consistently performing well year on...
By Lynn Ockersz Cavernous vehicles roar past,Nameless bread winners,Standing gape-mouthed on side walks;Their limbs limp with fast-creeping fear,For hulking shadowy figures,Bunched behind the whizzing tinted glass…...
August 20, 2020, parliament: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa delivers his policy statement. By Shamindra Ferdinando Lawmaker Gajendrakumar Ponnanbalam, 46, on August 21, in Parliament, alleged that the...
By ROHANA R. WASALA In my opinion, Ven. Athuraliye Ratana and Ven. Galaboda-aththe Gnanasara were following two different lines of activism in the arena of inclusive...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Education Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris says the new government cannot move forward due to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Prof. Peiris,...
In my letter in The Island captioned “Best Leave the President to his Task”, I concluded “When narcotics sleuths sell themselves to drug barons etc., this...
Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda has flayed Jaffna District lawmaker C.V. Wigneswaran for taking a hostile stand at the inauguration of the 9th parliament and during the debate...
A pygmy seahorse about the size of a grain of rice has been first observed in the Indian oceans by a group of researchers including including...
Wednesday 26th August, 2020 Washington heaved a sigh of relief when Sri Lanka successfully conducted a general election amidst the Covid-19 pandemic about three weeks ago....
Following the resignation of Neil McKenzie last week, due to personal reasons, Bangladesh Cricket Board have appointed Craig McMillan as the team’s batting consultant for the...
Sampath Bank PLC recently announced that its asset base has surpassed Rs. 1 trillion, making it the youngest bank in Sri Lanka to achieve this feat....
By Chitra Weerarathne Accused, Ranjan Ramanayake, though a politician, did not have special power to criticise the Supreme Court and contempt of court laws applied equally...
