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...
Building on its success in seizing major narcotic stocks in 2025, the Navy continued to support the “A Nation United”...
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...
Piliyandala removed from isolation list: DGHS helpless By Shamindra Ferdinando Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Asela Gunawardena, who is the state authority for the national...
By Ifham Nizam A new shampoo claiming to be nourishing, soft and smooth with egg protein is planning to hit the market in sachets format...
Wednesday 5th May, 2021 April is apparently the cruellest month in this country, as we said in a previous comment, with apologies to T. S. Eliot....
By Saman Indrajith Chief Government Whip Highways Minister Johnston Fernando told Parliament yesterday that the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill would be taken up for...
In his feature article, titled “Reduce O/Level STRESS”, appearing in The Island of 03 May, Anton Peiris makes a timely intervention to introduce an alternative mathematics...
By Norman Palihawadane The Navy nabbed 80 Indians attempting to immigrate illegally into Sri Lanka in 11 boats at Mannar yesterday. They had fled India, fearing...
Colombo: The Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives last Friday (30 April) proudly launched ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’, a Franco-Sri Lankan talk...
I refer to the article, under the heading “Internal Unity – a priority”, on the Opinion Page of The Island of 30th April. I have no...
The first batch of 15,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday. The Russian Embassy in Colombo said that the consignment...
By Hiran H. Senewiratne CSE witnessed a negative performance due to a drop in LOLC Group share prices yesterday following a delay in the presentation of...
Making sense of regional integration in South Asia: By Dr Srimal Fernando Regional integration and cooperation have proven to be vital in dealing with political...
Lahiru Wickramasinghe, Founding CEO/ Director, Evoke International Limited & Mr.&Siddhartha Roy, COO, Hungama Digital Media Evoke International Limited recently announced that it had acquired limited exclusive...
