Mounting concerns over drug safety and regulatory oversight have triggered strong calls from medical professionals and trade unions for the...
China has pledged its full support to Sri Lanka’s economic and social recovery efforts in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah,...
The Hydrology and Disaster Management Division of the Department of Irrigation has issued flood warnings for the Mahaweli River Basin...
Volodymyr Zelensky is urging European Union leaders gathered at a crunch summit in Brussels to loan billions of euros in...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will crack down on hate speech following Sunday’s deadly shooting at Bondi...
The Bay of Plenty lived up to its name but only for New Zealand. Devon Conway and Tom Latham harvested...
Australia have not yet officially retained the Ashes, but it already seems a matter of “when” not “if” after England’s...
Winter storms are worsening conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, as aid agencies warn that Israeli...
An official meeting was held between Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC)...
The landslide early warning centre of the National Building Research Organization [NBRO] has issued Level III landslide early warnings to...
Astonishingly, this Ashes series is just seven days old, but it remains in no mood to slow down and take...
Sri Lanka has named a young squad for the forthcoming T20Is against India, bringing in the likes of 17-year-old ambidextrous...
GS Sports, the first subsidiary of George Steuart Health, recently strengthened its presence in the market by opening another showroom in Madiwela, apart from their flagship...
By Saman Indrajith The 2020 Central Bank annual report presented to Parliament last week is a testimony to the fact that the country’s economy is in...
CFA Institute has earned an important reputation as a professional organization providing finance education to investment professionals. Recently, CFA Society Sri Lanka (CFASL) announced the appointment...
Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay and other officials of the High Commission offered floral tributes to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in Colombo on his...
State Minister Urban Development and Coast Conservation Dr. Nalaka Godahewa says a total lockdown is not possible, but the government remains committed to tackling the threat by...
By Rathindra Kuruwita The government has stockpiled millions of PCR kits that are low in sensitivity and they may be incapable of identifying new variants that...
AND IMPACT ON ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION It is said that when two or three airline pilots gather together, they speak about the ‘four Ss – namely, Safety,...
It was an ‘accounting gimmick’, says Opposition MP By Sanath Nanayakkare The internationally accepted practice was to classify domestic debt and external debt based on the...
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN (Our Special Correspondent) NEW DELHI, May 9: The ongoing lockdown in Delhi has been extended for another week, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind...
Please allow me some space to make a brief response to S A R’s comments, published in The Island on the 5th May 2021. There was...
By Shiran Illanperuma and Dr. Vagisha Gunasekara While the U.S. and other Western nations are mired in multiple crises of COVID-19, economic recession and systemic racism,...
Monday 10th May, 2021 The global pandemic situation is far worse than it looks. The University of Washington estimates reveal that Covid-19 has snuffed out 6.9...
