Sri Lanka could face a serious electricity supply crisis if outstanding payments owed to renewable energy producers are not settled...
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya told Parliament on Wednesday that the government was planning to reform the higher education sector...
The official welcoming ceremony for the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and General Secretary of the Central Committee...
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has said it will conduct periodic checks on the IPL teams...
President To Lam, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party...
It has been reported quoting the Police, that former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SriLankan Airlines, Kapila Chandrasena, has been...
This series picks up from Bangladesh’s finest red-ball hour against arguably Pakistan’s bleakest one. Two years ago, Bangladesh came to...
The Iranian military has said it retaliated against United States Navy ships after US forces targeted an oil tanker in...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 07 May 2026, valid...
Lucknow Super Giants’ (LSG) much-vaunted pace attack applied the skids on Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in a banana-peel clash at...
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...
Digital transformation world series global event TM Forum’s Catalyst Awards recognize the world’s leading companies for their outstanding proof-of-concept solutions to challenges facing communications service providers...
by Norman Palihawadane A policeman, attached to the Eravur Police, has been interdicted for assaulting two motorcyclists in Batticaloa. The incident was captured on video, which...
Flagrant violations largely ignored during restrictions ECONOMYNEXT – The ongoing inter-provincial travel ban will be lifted on October 31, the national COVID-19 prevention task force said,...
By Nimal Welgama It’s hard to capture in a few words the flavour of Upali Wijewardene, the founder the Upali Group, who tragically went out of...
The Island was not started solely to cater to the people’s right to be informed. Promoting the national interest was also one of its main objectives....
Cambridge days by A. C. Visvalingam Some time in late 1955 or early 1956, I was planning to abandon a course in Agricultural Engineering that I...
by Ajith Samaranayake Between Sri Lanka’s 35th independence anniversary and his birthday Upali Wijewardene boarded his executive Lear Jet at Kuala Lumpur and in a single...
We fondly remember our founder Mr.Upali Wijewadene and his successor as our Chairman Dr. Seevali Ratwatte, who steered the Upali Group through some of the most...
BY ARJUNA HULUGALLE From the moment I met Upali Wijewardene, and that was at the age of five in the baby class at Ladies’ College, Colombo,...
About Ourselves We love this land. That is why the newspaper which is born today is called “The Island”. We are modest people but we believe...
BY RANJIT WIJEWARDENE Dynastically Upali Wijewardene could have chosen to wear the mantle of his paternal uncle, D.R. Wijewardene, the newspaperman, or follow the role model...
Some personal recollections BY NANDA GODAGE I returned to Sri Lanka in 1979 from a tour of duty in the Philippines and reassumed duties at the...
