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...
In the long-run, the US cannot contain the rise of China by Kumar David A new cold-war has been declared. Mike Pompeo launched the first fusillade...
by M. A. M. H. Barry PhD, LLM, MA, LLB. BA Attorney-at-Law The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal (Aristotle)...
In an effort to bolster national fish production as well as to improve the livelihoods and food security initiatives of smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka, Oceanpick...
DOES HE NOT WANT TO BE PREZ ANY MORE . . . by Selvam Canagaratna “The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only...
by Dr. P. G. Punchihewa “It’s an old and common saying: The coconut tree affords meat, drinks and cloth, true. I’ll also like to add –...
The United States has given Sri Lanka enough mechanical ventilators to boost the island’s pre-Coronavirus intensive care bed facilities by around 40 percent, according to publicly...
June 12, 2020, has so far been the worst day of my life. No sooner, I woke up to a normal working day, to receive a...
By Akitha Perera The Samagi Jana Balawegaya was planning to move the Supreme Court against the 20th Amendment (20A) ‘to safeguard the mechanisms introduced by the 19th Amendment...
Duvindu Tillakaratne has the unique distinction of representing both S. Thomas’ and Trinity in school cricket. One of the rising stars in domestic cricket Duvindu Sachin...
Thinking Out of the Box is the catchline of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He gave this advice to the banking sector in May this year, and to...
It is with mounting fury that I have just read P. Abeysinghe Mallawaratchchi’s letter (‘The Island’ 3rd Sept.) in which he makes the most astounding statements...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emphasized that cultivators of minor crops, including turmeric and pepper, should be protected by ensuring stable prices for them. The importation of turmeric...
