Police have stepped up their crackdown on organised crime, after securing Interpol Red Notices for 95 suspects believed to be hiding...
Leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), Udaya Gammanpila, yesterday launched a scathing attack on outgoing United States Ambassador to...
President Donald Trump has named former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to his so-called “Board of Peace”, which is expected...
The ICC has decided to send officials to Dhaka this weekend to meet the BCB’s top brass in a bid...
Steven Hogan’s century, which included a 186-run stand with Nitesh Samuel, helped Australia brush aside Ireland for an eight wicket...
England Under 19s 210 in 46.5 overs (Ben Dawkins 33, Caleb Falconer 66; Ali Raza 2-36, Ahmed Hussain 3-38, Abdul...
Half-centuries from Faisal Shinozada, Khalid Ahmadzai and Uzairullah Niazai along with a combined bowling effort helped Afghanistan stun South Africa...
Royal Challengers Begaluru [RCB] completed a hat-trick of wins thanks to a 105-run stand between Richa Ghosh and Radha Yadav...
A court in South Korea has sentenced the country’s former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to five years in jail after...
West Indies kickstarted their campaign at the 2026 Men’s U19 World Cup with a drubbing of Tanzania for the first...
Five-time champions India began their 2026 Men’s Under-19 World Cup campaign with a six wicket win (via DLS) over United...
A fired-up UP Warriorz (UPW) side breathed some life into their WPL 2026 campaign by earning their first points of...
The clinical development and release of an effective vaccine against any disease is essentially mandated to go through several rigorously controlled testing processes. A vaccine candidate...
Shirendra Lawrence has been appointed as an independent Non-Executive Director on Midas Safety’s Group Advisory Board with effect from June 2020. Founded 41 years ago, and...
By Dr. Tilak Siyambalapitiya On Monday 17th August 2020, at 12.35 pm, Sri Lanka experienced the fifth countrywide blackout in recent memory. Probably, it was around...
by Harim Peiris The recent election results reveal interesting changes in Tamil politics in Sri Lanka. The predominant representative of the Tamil people, the Tamil National...
Chairman – Priyantha Fernando and Executive Director/CEO Krishan Thilakaratne Commercial Leasing and Finance PLC (CLC) concluded FY2019/20 on an impressive note, consistently performing well year on...
By Lynn Ockersz Cavernous vehicles roar past,Nameless bread winners,Standing gape-mouthed on side walks;Their limbs limp with fast-creeping fear,For hulking shadowy figures,Bunched behind the whizzing tinted glass…...
August 20, 2020, parliament: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa delivers his policy statement. By Shamindra Ferdinando Lawmaker Gajendrakumar Ponnanbalam, 46, on August 21, in Parliament, alleged that the...
By ROHANA R. WASALA In my opinion, Ven. Athuraliye Ratana and Ven. Galaboda-aththe Gnanasara were following two different lines of activism in the arena of inclusive...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Education Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris says the new government cannot move forward due to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Prof. Peiris,...
In my letter in The Island captioned “Best Leave the President to his Task”, I concluded “When narcotics sleuths sell themselves to drug barons etc., this...
Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda has flayed Jaffna District lawmaker C.V. Wigneswaran for taking a hostile stand at the inauguration of the 9th parliament and during the debate...
A pygmy seahorse about the size of a grain of rice has been first observed in the Indian oceans by a group of researchers including including...
