Police have stepped up their crackdown on organised crime, after securing Interpol Red Notices for 95 suspects believed to be hiding...
Leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), Udaya Gammanpila, yesterday launched a scathing attack on outgoing United States Ambassador to...
President Donald Trump has named former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to his so-called “Board of Peace”, which is expected...
The ICC has decided to send officials to Dhaka this weekend to meet the BCB’s top brass in a bid...
Steven Hogan’s century, which included a 186-run stand with Nitesh Samuel, helped Australia brush aside Ireland for an eight wicket...
England Under 19s 210 in 46.5 overs (Ben Dawkins 33, Caleb Falconer 66; Ali Raza 2-36, Ahmed Hussain 3-38, Abdul...
Half-centuries from Faisal Shinozada, Khalid Ahmadzai and Uzairullah Niazai along with a combined bowling effort helped Afghanistan stun South Africa...
Royal Challengers Begaluru [RCB] completed a hat-trick of wins thanks to a 105-run stand between Richa Ghosh and Radha Yadav...
A court in South Korea has sentenced the country’s former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to five years in jail after...
West Indies kickstarted their campaign at the 2026 Men’s U19 World Cup with a drubbing of Tanzania for the first...
Five-time champions India began their 2026 Men’s Under-19 World Cup campaign with a six wicket win (via DLS) over United...
A fired-up UP Warriorz (UPW) side breathed some life into their WPL 2026 campaign by earning their first points of...
Land Valuation Indicator (LVI) for Colombo District increased to 155.1 during the first half of 2021. The annual increase of 9.5 and the semi-annual increase of...
The Sri Lanka Tennis Association High-Performance Squad teamed up with renowned isotonic energy drink manufacture Yeti as their official isotonic sports drink partner during a ceremony...
By Rathindra Kuruwita A health sector decision maker had told a major Middle Eastern airline that the government laboratories did not conduct rapid PCR tests and...
Public Security Minister Rear Admiral (retd.) Sarath Weerasekera yesterday said that he had utmost respect for his teachers and therefore he had advised police to act...
Austin Fernando’s article in The Island of 09 August, referring to the Pre-2015 Geneva situation, mentioning the withdrawal of the GSP+ concession, etc., brings to mind...
It certainly was a long wait for most entertainers, in Switzerland, to do what they are good at – keeping the public entertained, live on stage....
By A.J.A. Abeynayake The Colombo Magistrate’s Court yesterday rejected a bail application filed by the wife of MP Rishad Bathiudeen, his father-in-law, brother-in-law and a broker....
… Audit queries didn’t expedite construction By Shamindra Ferdinando The crisis at the Colombo South Teaching Hospital at Kalubowila, where the hospital administration struggled to cope...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne CSE activities began on a negative note yesterday due to worries over the pandemic situation in the country. However, during the second session...
Tuesday 10th August, 2021 The military has drawn flak from former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, MP, for conducing Covid-19 vaccination programmes, which, he says, should be...
The Sri Lanka Army has provided financial assistance to 15 ex-LTTE combatants recently freed from jail on a Presidential pardon to launch their own self-employment projects....
By Jehan Perera The withdrawal of the Kotelawala National Defence Academy (KNDU) Bill, which was to be debated in Parliament this week, offers more time to...
