China and Sri Lanka have intensified joint law enforcement efforts to combat cross-border online gambling and telecom fraud, crimes that...
An assistant manager and a security officer, attached to a state bank branch in Horana, have been arrested in connection...
Anthropic is proposing that the world’s top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of...
Iran’s World Cup football players have been granted visas to enter the United States, according to a White House official,...
Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasooriya in her Environment Day message said that the environment is the foundation of our livelihood...
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were ordered to shelter in an attached spacecraft after the structure suddenly started...
Qualifier Maja Chwalinska is one win away from a fairytale French Open triumph after setting up a final showdown with...
Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a face-to-face meeting between himself and Vladimir Putin in a renewed bid to end the...
Shreyas Iyer is set to replace Suryakumar Yadav as India’s T20I captain, and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is set for his maiden call-up,...
Pakistan edged home in a low-scoring tussle to secure their third straight ODI series win against Australia. They batted with...
Welcome to England’s new Test era. Stop me if you’ve read this one before. The opening day of the 2026...
Rumesh Tharanga produced the best javelin throw of his career to smash the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea meeting record...
BY CYRIL WIMALASURENDRE KANDY – Twenty-year-old K.P.G. Nirmala Randiwela of No.23B, Keppetipola, Makelwala near Mawanella is suffering from acute kidney failure. Dr. Keerthi Bandara of the...
Pasikuda is known as ‘Green- Algae Bay’ which is located approximately 35 kilometers away from the town of Batticaloa. The natural beauty of this beach with...
… recoveries nearly 34,000, deaths 195 The Health Ministry yesterday (29) said 704 more had recovered from COVID-19 and the total number of recoveries had reached...
By Dr. Prasanna Cooray Kali is at centre stage, again for the wrong reason. I wrote an article about her in The Island on 26.11.2016, under...
By A. HETTIARACHCHI hetti-a@sltnet.lk In October the second wave of Corona infections appeared in Sri Lanka and started spreading at a much higher rate than the...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Sri Lanka yesterday (29) received the second group of tourists from Ukraine as Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said the health authorities would step...
98th National Athletics Championship by Reemus Fernando Emerging school athlete Shanika Lakshani competing alongside seniors shattered one of the oldest athletics records when she clocked 4:33.40...
The Olcott Oration delivered to the Old Boys Association of Ananda College (November 2020, Perth, Western Australia) by Dr D Chandraratna It can be gauged from...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem, MP, recently told The Island that Sri Lanka had no option but to involve India...
By Rathindra Kuruwita The Ministry of Education did not spend 27.75% of the money allocated to it in the budgets between 2016 and 2019, says Ceylon...
Continuing to help individuals and businesses earn greater returns on their foreign currency savings, Sampath Bank is offering an additional bonus interest of 33% on its...
By Lynn Ockersz Before the first streaks of dawn, They throw caution to the wind, And amass at the shaman’s gate, Mesmerized by sleights-of-hand, Of those...
