The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has directed owners of large-scale rooftop solar systems to temporarily disconnect their installations for a...
The cost of preparing a traditional kevili table for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year has risen by 7 per...
The toss is crucial in night matches at Wankhede Stadium with a true flat pitch and dew giving the chasing...
Prasidh Krishna is beginning to make a mark at IPL 2026. Three nights after his clever slower bouncer to David...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 12 April 2026, valid...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
The Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) TAIMUR and ASLAT arrived at the Port of Colombo on a goodwill visit on 12...
Sanju Samson’s first century for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) set up the team’s first win in IPL 2026 and their...
Punjab Kings trumped Sunrisers Hyderabad in a battle of explosive top orders, chasing down 220 with more than an an...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre at 3.30 p.m. on 11 April 2026, valid for...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
On Tuesday, from a balcony in Lima’s historic San Martin Square, Ricardo Belmont — who, at 80, is Peru’s oldest...
No-faith motion to be taken up today Former Foreign Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday (9) said that President Anura Kumara Dissanayake should remove Energy Minister...
The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) has alleged that two recent coal tenders awarded for 2026 are illegal, citing irregularities in both the long-term and emergency local...
Docs resume trade union action Health and Mass Media Minister Nalinda Jayatissa told Parliament yesterday that the government was prepared to face any situation arising from...
Sri Lanka and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached staff-level agreement on economic policies to conclude the combined Fifth and Sixth Reviews of Sri Lanka’s...
More than 200,000 micro, small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lanka ceased operations between 2018 and 2022, Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning Prof. Anil...
Lankan Australian playwright S Shakthidharan, widely known as Shakthi, has won the $US175,000 ($250,000) Windham-Campbell Prize for drama.The international prize is awarded each year to writers...
Sri Lanka has reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund to secure the next tranche of funding under its ongoing bailout programme, marking a...
(A sequel to the two-part article, War with Iran and unravelling of the global order, published in The Island on April 8 and 9.) The unfolding...
Friday 10th April, 2026 A motion of no confidence against Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody is scheduled to be taken up in Parliament, today. The JVP-NPP government,...
How Artificial Intelligence is breaking barriers in Autism Diagnosis and Care For any parent, the early years are a most valuable countdown of “firsts” of his...
Sri Lanka could face extended drought conditions through September if an El Niño event develops during the upcoming southwest monsoon season, the Department of Meteorology warned...
The recent disclosure of a substantial internal fraud at National Development Bank has understandably unsettled the financial community. What began as a relatively contained incident has...
