Close on the heels of the USD 2.5 mn theft from the Treasury, the Welfare Benefits Board has reported payment...
NDF MP Ravi Karunanayake on Tuesday (05) raised in Parliament what he described as a matter of “grave national importance”,...
Two people in a serious condition who were evacuated from a cruise ship with a confirmed outbreak of deadly hantavirus...
The India and Zimbabwe women’s teams are all set to play an international fixture against each other for the first...
Oil prices have dropped and global stock markets have risen following reports that the US and Iran are close to...
Sadaf Shamas and Gull Feroza struck centuries as Pakistan Women piled up their second-highest total in ODIs – 343/4 –...
Catches win matches is probably one of the oldest and most overused clichés in cricket. But it couldn’t have been...
United States President Donald Trump says he has had “very good talks” with Iran over the past 24 hours and...
The schedule for the IPL 2026 playoffs has been announced, with matches set to be held in Dharamshala, New Chandigarh...
The California man who allegedly tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at a Washington gala has been indicted on a...
The US operation to guide stranded vessels through the Strait of Hormuz will be paused for a “short period of...
Chennai Super Kings came into IPL 2026 with a dodgy look about their bowling attack. They lost three games straight...
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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...
Huawei, the global smartphone brand offers its users a new, smarter journey with the My Huawei App, an official all-in-one platform for customers to share their...
Sri Lanka’s leading state-owned Non-Bank Financial Institution (NBFI) People’s Leasing & Finance PLC recently unveiled its mobile application – PLC Touch – to facilitate a convenient...
