Proposed education reforms have drawn sharp criticism from education professionals, teacher unions and student organisations, who warned on Thursday that...
Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa on Friday told Parliament that the Buddhism textbook contained a “serious error,” citing the...
Rescue workers are racing to find dozens of people still missing following a landslide at a landfill site in the...
US President Donald Trump has asked for at least $100bn (£75bn) in oil industry spending for Venezuela, but received a...
The US and its partner forces have carried out large-scale strikes against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Syria, the...
Georgia Wareham towered over the rest with an impressive all-round show to lead Gujarat Giants to an impressive opening match...
After a nail-biter slipped through their hands in the last over of the opening night of WPL 2026, defending champions...
That Sri Lanka is experiencing an especially nasty north-east monsoon over the past several months is clear. It washed out...
Warning for depression to the East of Sri Lanka Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre, Department of Meteorology ...
It isn’t often that India get a 22-day break from international cricket. Rarer still for the most commercially lucrative team...
Nadine de Klerk’s sensational late onslaught, eerily reminiscent of the heist that turned the tables on India at the 2025...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called anti-government protesters “troublemakers” and “a bunch of vandals” just trying “to please...
by Norman Palihawadana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said that Sri Lanka will receive sufficient stocks of the Covid-19 vaccines from multiple sources to inoculate the whole...
BY LAKSHMAN WICKRAMASINGHE Kalakeerthi Edwin Ariyadasa, the gentleman journalist, is no more. He has left us with a legacy that is as noble as the life...
International Construction Consortium (ICC), an award winning multi-sector contractor, announced that all the apartments in the proposed Mount Clifford Residencies at Homagama have been sold out...
Book Review L.T.P MANJUSRI – Artist and Scholar (1902-1982) By Shamil Wanigaratne Publisher: Bay Owl Press Price: Rs.7500 by Jomo Uduman Most of us art lovers...
AIA Insurance launched another industry first by introducing a brand-new health and wellness offering. AIA customers now receive free access to wellness specialists, free of charge,...
Sri Lanka plans to purchase three million doses of India’s Covishield vaccine and use a combination of Indian, Russian and Chinese-manufactured COVID-19 vaccines pending approval to...
by Lalin Fernando After reading Shamindra Ferdinando’s sparkling review (Island Jan 13 with a follow up a week later) of retired Senior Deputy Inspector General of...
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced appointments of home umpires for the first two Tests between India and England, and Nitin Menon, the lone Elite panel...
The US has said that it is carefully reviewing a report from the UN on Sri Lankas human rights situation which highlights worrying trends such as...
By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA The UN Human Rights Council’s first session of the year 2021 to be held from February 22 to March 23 is...
by Kumar David The fracas about the Eastern Container Terminal is mostly if not entirely political; concerns re finance, technology and traffic, in so far as...
by S Venkat Narayan Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, January 30: Singapore Airlines (SIA) is not keen to join India’s Tata Group in its bid for...
