Sri Lanka’s environmental protection framework is rapidly eroding, with weak law enforcement, politically driven development and the routine sidelining of...
IGP Priyantha Weerasooriya has issued a letter, warning police officers against presenting gifts to senior officers during festivals or special...
New York has woken up to its heaviest snowfall in nearly four years after a winter storm blanketed parts of...
Thousands of flights have been cancelled and delayed in the United States due to winter storm Devin, airline monitoring website...
Thailand and Cambodia said they have signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of fierce fighting along their border that...
Sri Lankan singer Latha Walpola has passed away today (27) at the age of 92.
All the three games in this series have followed a similar pattern so far. India have won three tosses –...
For the first time in 19 matches, and nearly 15 years, England’s men experienced a Test victory in Australia as...
Shafali Verma continued her superb form, cracking a 42-ball 79 as India brushed aside Sri Lanka once again to win...
With the recriminations well underway from an Ashes defeat, compounded by the fallout from some rather embarrassing off-field shenanigans, England were momentarily...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board took over the ownership rights of Chattogram Royals for the remainder of the Bangladesh Premier League...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya in her Christmas message, called upon everyone to uphold the true meaning of Christmas following...
On December 26, page one of ‘The Island’ gave a report that post-mortems conducted by a five-member team comprising four consultant judicial medical officers and a...
… stresses need to pay attention to Climate Emergency, animal welfare … frowns on practice of throwing money at the problem The World Health Organisation (WHO)...
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) says that while appreciating Sri Lanka’s relative success in the management of COVID-19, it would like to express its strong condemnation...
by Sanath Nanayakkare We have reached the end of another year, which I believe, was the most difficult year in our recent history. All of us...
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Cultural Affairs has instructed the National Film Corporation to reopen cinemas starting from Jan 1...
Sees vaccine as ‘a ray of hope’ by Sanath Nanayakkare 2020 has been a difficult year for many sectors of the economy, but I’m confident that...
Text and pic by Priyan De Silva Walkers Colombo Shipyard (WCS) lifted the 100-tonne catamaran hulled sailing yacht ‘Ocean Diamond’ for dry berthing recently. The vessel...
Factors such as a younger population, early lockdown and some level of general immunity may have helped India and other South Asian countries keep the Covid-19...
Lalith Senanayake, who created the waste-plastic jumbo on the Uswetaekiyawa beach told The Island that he looked forward to working with the people in the other...
By Ifham Nizam President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera not to allow anyone to harm the environment while taking action to ensure that...
Sri Lanka’s most popular mobile phones & accessories brand OPPO recently concluded O FANS NIGHT – as part of their seasonal promotion O FANS FEST –...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Sena caterpillars would destroy paddy cultivation unless the agricultural authorities took steps to control the pest, the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform...
