Anuradhapura Chief Magistrate, Siyapath Sasindu Wickramaratne, on Friday (12) ordered former Atamasthanadhipathi Pallegama Hemarathana Thera, who stands accused in a...
(Asiatimes) From this week, those using private buses in Sri Lanka may face severe transport disruption, as operators in the sector...
Boualem Khoukhi scored an equalising goal on a header in the fourth minute of stoppage time, and Qatar spoiled a...
Nestory Irankunda and Connor Metcalfe have scored as Australia have spoiled Turkiye’s return to the World Cup for the first...
The New York Knicks won the National Basketball Association championship for the first time in over 50 years, sending the...
Dasun Shanaka produced the batting ballistics, Kamil Mishara held the innings together, and Sri Lanka’s spinners dominated the middle overs,...
Three buses lined up at the City Street Station to ferry a long queue of cricket enthusiasts for the opening...
Vinicius Jr spared Brazil the embarrassment of defeat in an opening World Cup match for the first since 1934 as...
Debutants Harsh Dubey and Gurnoor Brar claimed three wickets each, while Shubman Gill slammed a fluent 66-ball 84 not out...
President Donald Trump has said a deal to end fighting between the US and Iran is scheduled to be signed...
Australia may have come into this Women’s T20 World Cup with doubts over their invincibility after entering a tournament without...
Shermaine Campbelle converted her maiden T20I fifty into a mighty, match-seizing knock of 90 not out from 62 balls, as...
by Panduka Karunanayake The recent series of articles in The Island, entitled ‘Kuppi Talk’, should be commended, for attempting to generate a much-needed discussion on...
HRCSL Chairman Dr. Jagath Balasuriya addressing civil society representatives (pic courtesy HRCSL) HRCSL-civil society powwow By Shamindra Ferdinando A civil society group has raised the issue of the...
Wednesday 23rd June, 2021 A sardonic witticism attributed to Einstein describes insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. How...
This is to request President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to allow burial of COVID -19 infected corpses of Muslims in the burial ground close to the residence of...
Dec 09, 2017: A jubilant PM Wickremesinghe at the formal handing over of HIP to China. The UNP leader holds a cheque written in favour of...
The national Insurer Sri Lanka Insurance launches “Nagaraja” an exclusive medical insurance cover to provide protection for Buddhist clergy, their parents and siblings. The unique insurance...
The government yesterday submitted to Parliament for approval a supplementary estimate to the tune of Rs 200 billion for the expenses incurred in controlling the COVID-19...
SJB leader Sajith Premadasa flanked by colleagues march on the road leading to Parliament (Pix by Thushara Atapattu) The main Opposition party, the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB), yesterday (22) conducted a...
Manufacturing and packaging plant in Hambantota By Hiran H. Senewiratne The local Artemia rearing industry is poised to replace the necessity of importing cysts thus...
Non-food category also recorded an increase during the month Headline inflation, as measured by the year-on- year (Y-o-Y) change in the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI,...
By Ifham Nizam More than 150 dead marine animals affected by the MV X-Press Pearl accident, have beached, officials and environmentalists say. By yesterday bodies of...
Easter Sunday carnage probe: … gems worth Rs 14 mn among cash, jewellery, etc., worth 340 mn recovered By Shamindra Ferdinando The Police Headquarters says Attorney General...
