Sri Lanka is standing on the edge of a coastal catastrophe, with the nation’s lifeline rapidly eroding under the combined...
The Sectoral Oversight Committee (SoC)on Economic Development and International Relations recently examined the Microfinance and Credit Regulatory Authority Bill and...
A quick glance at the head to head record is enough to show the gulf between India and Sri Lanka...
With the objective of enhancing the living conditions of the agricultural community and increasing the contribution of the agricultural sector...
The Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education has entered into agreements with Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation General Limited...
20 Consultancy Boards have been established by now covering the production industries field with the objective of minimizing the policy...
The BCCI has raised the match fees in women’s domestic cricket, from INR 20,000 to INR 50,000 per day, for...
Gede Priandana, Indonesia’s 28-year-old right-arm quick bowler, has become the first to pick up five wickets in an over in...
Australia captain Pat Cummins won’t feature again in the Ashes and there is uncertainty about whether he will be available...
United States President Donald Trump has issued a new warning to Nicolas Maduro, saying “it would be smart” for the...
New Zealand 575 for 8 dec (Devon Conway 227, Tom Latham 137, Rachin Ravindra 72*; Alex Greaves 2-83) and 306...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to further jail terms following a...
A layman’s view by ROHANA R. WASALA ‘At least since Rousseau’s Social Contract and the end of the divine right of kings, the state has been...
Gearing Sri Lanka to a “5G ready status” with its 5G trial network in select locations, across the country, Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity...
A special committee, appointed by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to study the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution and submit a report, is of...
There was a fabulously rich mudalali, who, in his time, was an institution in the South. He was not born with the proverbial silver spoon in...
Lessons from Hantana For this, I go back to 1984, when I bought a house at the Hantana housing scheme started by President Premadasa. At the...
By Uditha Devapriya In his travelogue Following the Equator, Mark Twain makes the following intriguing claim: “Tea-tasting is the great business in Ceylon, now. A passenger...
Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena addressing the High-Level Meeting on the 25th Anniversary of the 4th World Conference on Women on Thursday Historically, Sri Lanka had demonstrated its...
India’s Federal Finance Ministry is discussing options for pushing the Indian Rupee as a common currency for trade with South Asian neighbours, New Delhi based NewsRise...
The panel comprising Jagath Liyanarachchi (RTI activist), Karu Jayasuriya (former speaker of parliament), Ashwini Natesan Weerabahu (researcher), Dumindu Madushan, Dulan Dasanayake (Right to Life) Text and...
Morison PLC, the largest oral solid dosage pharmaceutical manufacturer in Sri Lanka and a subsidiary of Hemas Holdings PLC, ceremonially opened their new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant...
Compensation negotiations still on By Ifham Nizam The Maritime Rescue Coordinating Centre (MRCC) yesterday authorised the owners of the crude oil tanker, ‘MT New Diamond’; to...
According to Mr. J.S. Ranasingha, in his article in The Island of 28th Sept the Rubber Industry is on the verge of extinction, with the annual...
