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...
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...
A plane crash has killed the deputy chief minister of India’s Maharashtra state, Ajit Pawar, the country’s aviation regulator has...
A new circular has been issued by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to provide relief to micro,...
Taking a cue from the success of the smallholder sector, Sri Lanka’s Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) handed over fresh proposals aimed at radically increasing worker earnings...
By Dr. Prasanna Cooray Mr. Ariyasena Ashuboda (or Arisen Ahubudu (AA), as he was popularly known) was our Sinhala teacher at S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia....
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Unfolding events make me wonder whether it is the Constitution that would ultimately save Buddhism in Sri Lanka. I am not...
Hundreds of people gathered yesterday outside the Kegalle residence of Dhammika Bandara, the producer of Dhammika peniya which is being touted as a cure for COVID-19,...
Saturday 26th December, 2020 The Opposition keeps accusing the government of having issued liquor manufacturing licences to four of its cronies. This land like no other...
Last week a barasingha [swamp deer] strayed into a field in Panchkula. She ate a ball of wheat, only to find it was a homemade bomb [commonly...
The thought-provoking article of appreciation by Prof K. Tennakone, head of the Institute of Fundamental Studies appearing in The Island of the 23rd instant must have drawn...
According to Forbes & Walker comments released on December 22, Sri Lanka tea production for the month of November 2020 totalled 24.8 M/kgs, showing an increase...
The action shifts to the Test cricket from a long vacuum of dried up international fare for the Sri Lankans by the raging COVID-19 pandemic as...
By Saman Indrajith UNP Leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the government should take immediate action to either bury or cremate COVID-19 infected...
By Anuradha Hiripitiyage The government was responsible for turning the cremation of Muslims who died from COVID19 into a socio-religious issue, Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) National...
JVP propaganda Secretary MP Vijitha Herath addressing a press conference held at the JVP Headquarters in Pelawatte on Thursday By Saman Indrajith The JVP, on Thursday,...
