The government is under mounting pressure to release a foreign laboratory report on the controversial coal consignment imported for the...
The Communist Party of Sri Lanka yesterday (18) alleged that the US was terrorising countries with unfair tariffs to compel...
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...
Contrasting half-centuries from Oman Sadat and Mahboob Khan set up Afghanistan’s 13 run win over West Indies. They wrapped up...
England have confirmed their place in the Super Sixes of the Under 19 World Cup 2026 after crushing hosts Zimbabwe...
A little over a year since winning their first-ever Test series in this country, New Zealand have beaten India in...
The BCB and the ICC have not yet reached a resolution over Bangladesh’s refusal to play their 2026 T20 World...
Smriti Mandhana became the ninth player to enter the 90s in the WPL. For a large part of her knock,...
Vaibhav Sooriyawanshi scored 72 at better than a run a ball, and took an agile catch at the boundary at...
With the onset of COVID-19, the world has seen disruptions to traditional forms of education. In Sri Lanka, since the first wave and the resulting lockdown...
Text and picture by PRIYAN DE SILVA Media Minister Dullas Alahapperuma, speaking at a public meeting in Kamburupitiya on Sunday said that the present was a...
The Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) yesterday claimed that the government came under local and foreign pressure to hold Provincial Council elections. Hence, it had agreed to...
By Ifham Nizam The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) yesterday raided a factory producing banned polythene lunch sheets in the Thihariya area in Gampaha and they were...
By Hiran Senewiratne CSE trading was sluggish throughout yesterday due to price increases in essential consumer items and a deterioration in foreign reserves to dangerously low...
We certainly did take a backseat and watch India turn our singing sensation, Yohani de Silva, into a mega star…a global icon, in fact. While India...
New measures treating the symptoms rather than the disease Harsh enforcement of price controls may worsen food shortages. The Commissioner of Essential Services has been granted...
By Srilal Miththapala I first set eyes on Rambo, in the early 1990s, when I started visiting the Uda Walawe National Park. He was a young...
Oman Air, the flag carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, has appointed Najma Al Naamani as the Commercial Manager overseeing the territory of Sri Lanka. She...
This is in reference to Dr Upul Wijayawardhana’s article on astrology, palmistry and cosmology, etc., which appeared in The Island of October 7th. The anecdotes given are...
PTA amendments or new law: By Shamindra Ferdinando On the instructions of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a high-level committee, chaired by Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne, has...
Provincial Council elections: by Dinasena Ratugamage The government had decided to hold provincial council elections soon following the visit of the Indian Foreign Secretary, TNA MP...
