MONETABRIEF –Sri Lanka plans to hire 121,000 state workers to fill identified vacancies over the next year as part of...
The government secured the required two-thirds majority in Parliament on Friday to pass the Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution Bill,...
Jos Buttler has been ruled out of England’s ODI series decider against Sri Lanka at The Oval on Sunday, with...
Tens of millions of people across the north-eastern US are in the path of a powerful storm bringing coastal flooding,...
US President Donald Trump has rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping within a...
The National Building Research Institute has issued landslide early warnings to the districts of Colombo, Galle, Gampaha, Hambanthota, Kalutara, Kandy,...
Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez has fired Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar after he attended a US-led regional security summit with...
Seven years on from their last away ODI victory against England. – also at Headingley – Sri Lanka repeated the...
Muhammad Shazad has broken the record for the fastest first-class century by a Pakistani batter, reaching the mark in just...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 24 SEPTEMBER 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 24 September 2026 by the Department of Meteorology The...
North Korean weightlifter Ri Song Gum has broken three world records en route to winning gold in the women’s 49kg...
United States President Donald Trump has welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping as he arrived in the US for a three-day...
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Samantha Green, Chief Executive Officer of Dogstar Foundation, has been awarded a British Empire Medal for her services to animal welfare. Samantha began her work in...
Thursday 14th January, 2021 It is not only greedy eaters who get into trouble because of their tongues, with which they are said to dig their...
Importing Liquefied Natural Gas – II by Dr Janaka Ratnasiri In Part I of this article, the Writer published in The Island of 11.01.2021, the writer...
Rex Clementine at Galle Fort Sri Lanka’s final training session yesterday ahead of the Galle Test was cancelled as a heavy downpour kept the players indoors...
Nestlé has facilitated the first commercial silage enterprise in the North Western Province, to help dairy farmers in the region have uninterrupted access to high-quality feed...
By Kalyananda Tiranagama Executive Director Lawyers for Human Rights and Development It has been reported that the Ministry of Justice is moving to amend the...
COPE Chairman Charitha Herath, MP (second from left) is flanked by officials (pic courtesy Parliament) COPE PROBE By Saman Indrajith A probe conducted by the parliament...
Environmentalists and religious dignitaries including Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, are cranking up pressure on the government to abandon a mega project to...
MP Ramanayake reacts as he boards the Prisons Department bus after the SC found him guilty. He was taken to Pallansena Covid-19 quarantine centre as a...
Standing : Prashantha Karunanayake – UNK Sagacious (Pvt) Ltd, Himantha Devendra – Dev Marine Agencies (Pvt) Ltd. Jagath Perera – Win – Stone Shipping (Pvt) Ltd,...
The newly elected president of Sri Lanka Retailers’ Association Prakash says that the changes in retail landscape over the past decade has been very significant. Interwoven...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Retired Senior Deputy Inspector General (SDIG) Merril Gunaratne quoted the then Air Force Commander Air Marshal Walter Fernando as having said at a...
