NATA to be given more powers The Parliamentary Sectoral Oversight Committee on Health, Mass Media and Women’s Empowerment has agreed...
The hunger strike launched by a group of Development Officers demanding their absorption into the teacher service entered its fourth...
Former Sri Lanka allrounder Shehan Jayasuriya is set to make his USA debut at the 2026 T20 World Cup. The...
Time for the real quiz. As pleasing as it was for Harry Brook and Brendon McCullum to win a rare...
Viran Chamuditha’s 94-ball 110 helped Sri Lanka Under 19 chase 262 and keep their hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals...
Sustained heavy gunfire and loud explosions have been heard in Niger near the international airport outside the capital, Niamey. Multiple...
Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education Dr Harini Amarasuriya said that she hoped that the...
Pavan Rathnayake has re-entered Sri Lanka’s T20I squad following his 121 off 115 balls in the third ODI against England....
Australia qualified for the semi-finals of the Under-19 World Cup after beating West Indies by 22 runs in Harare courtesy...
The Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya participated in the official launch of the National Strategic Action Plan to monitor and...
Shiyam Dube hammered the third-fastest fifty by an Indian batter in T20Is, finishing with 65 off 23 balls, but it...
A South Korean court has sentenced former First Lady Kim Keon Hee to one year and eight months in prison...
The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has allowed Swarnamahal Financial Services PLC (SFSP) to operate for a limited time on a conditional...
Oil portrait by Kamalam Krishnadasan in November 1927 when the Mahatma was in the house of her father C.Arumugam in his Colombo Villa, “Ark”. Courtesy: Sri...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Several frontline health workers who had received the Indian COVID-19 vaccine had developed mild reactions although the Health Ministry wasn’t interested in collecting...
By Dr. C. S. Weeraratna (csweera@sltnet.lk) Prof. N.A. De S Amaratunga in his piece “Is government in self-destructive mode? in The Island of 22 Jan. said...
SLT-Mobitel, the national telecommunication Service provider has appointed Sri Lanka’s popular young reality stars, Falan Andrea and Nuwandika Senarathna as Brand Ambassadors. Falan and Nuwandika come...
Wednesday 3rd February, 2021 It was with shock and dismay that the world received the news of Monday’s military coup in Myanmar, and the detention of...
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) youth movement yesterday (1) lodged a complaint with the Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC), calling for an investigation into...
by Shamindra Ferdinando Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control State Minister Dr Sudarshini Fernandopulle yesterday said that those who had received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine...
Nimal Lanza, State Minister for Rural Roads and Other Infrastructure, said that 8,600 km of AB grade roads and 8,000 km of CD grade roads are...
Krishan Wickramarthna won the men’s singles table tennis title. Mahiepala Herath All Island Table Tennis Tournament Old Vidyartha’s Krishan Wickramarthna and Navy’s Muthumali Priyadarshani won...
Chathurya Nilaweera will enter the men’s singles as one of the favourites.(Pic by Kamal Wanniarachchi) The 105th Colombo Tennis Championships which was scheduled to commence on...
Interview with CBE awardee Prof Ravi Silva By Sajitha Prematunge Every hour the Earth’s atmosphere receives enough solar radiation to meet electricity needs of every human...
