Engineers at the Ceylon Electricity Board have drawn a clear red line over the government’s plan to gazette the appointed...
The annual Colombo Navam Maha Perahera, along with an exhibition of sacred relics brought from India, will be held at...
Nihar Parmar produced an excellent all-round display as Japan comfortably defeated Tanzania by nine wickets at Windhoek in the first...
India bundled out New Zealand for a mere 135 in their final Group B fixture of the Under-19 World Cup...
Josh Hoey had said he was excited to take a shot at the world 800m short track record in Boston...
US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 100% tariff on Canadian goods if the country strikes a trade...
Pakistan’s participation at the upcoming Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 has been thrown into uncertainty after the PCB chairman Mohsin...
Joe Root struck his 45th ODI fifty and with it helped England snap an 11-match losing streak away from home,...
A Sri Lankan innings that never really got going eventually parked itself at middling total of 219, as they were...
It is now official: Scotland have replaced Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup 2026 starting in India and Sri Lanka...
At least seven people have died and more than 80 others are missing after a landslide hit Indonesia’s West Java...
Ukraine has condemned a fresh wave of Russian strikes overnight which killed one person and injured 23 others, as talks...
Two consecutive editorials, published in The Island on the 7 and 8 May, lambasted the despicable intervention of the Minister of Transport, Gamini Lokuge, for being...
By Dinasena Rathugamage The Terrorist Investigation Division has asked five persons for being in uniform similar to that of the LTTE’s self-styled police, controlling traffic in...
By DR. SIRI GALHENAGE Psychiatrist The defining quality of literature is the expression of human nature in its diversity and its vicissitudes. Characters, their patterns of...
By Dinsena Rathugamage The Jaffna police have arrested eight persons over the theft of two priceless antique statues of Goddess Parvati, which were recovered by the...
By Rathindra Kuruwita It is only a matter of time before a shortage of oxygen occurs unless Sri Lanka controls the number of Covid-19 cases, the...
More basic factsax By Sena Thoradeniya Prof. Sasanka Perera’s (SS) essay titled “Vira Alakeshvara’s Plight: Signals from the Past” in the Midweek Review in The Island...
Non-science used as science I have read with interest the article on “Science, Non-science and Nonsense” written by Dr. Sarath Gamini De Silva in “The Island”...
Hasini Lecamwasam’s article Why are Arts Graduates Unemployable (The Island of 11 May) is an excellent analysis of the topic. For decades, our universities have turned...
By Rathindra Kuruwita It was a grave mistake that the public had not been made aware of the danger of the UK variant of Covid-19 detected...
“The ASPI ended higher amid healthy turnover levels. BIL, JKH and RCL led market activity with crossings also seen in HNB.X. Trading in BIL amounted to...
SJB MPs Thalatha Atukorale, Eran Wickramaratne, Dr. Harsha de Silva and Kabir Hashim addressing the media at the Opposition Leader’s office on Monday The main Opposition...
Nestlé Lanka has launched an innovative solution for managing and monitoring its cold storage temperature, developed by premier business solutions provider, Dialog Enterprise. The solution is...
