More than 200 Iranian sailors left stranded in Sri Lanka after a US torpedo attack are returning home after being...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, issuing a New Year message, extend his heartfelt wishes to all Sri Lankans for a peaceful...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 15 April 2026, valid...
Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, has landed in Iran as part of a delegation to hold high-level talks...
The Indonesian Navy Sailing Ship KRI BIMA SUCI – 945 arrived at the Port of Colombo on a goodwill visit...
Chennai Super Kings left the bottom of the table and joined four other teams on four points by achieving two...
About 250 Rohingya and Bangladeshis, including children, are missing after their boat capsized last week in the Andaman Sea, according...
President Donald Trump has suggested talks aimed at ending the war in Iran could resume this week, after negotiations collapsed...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 14 April 2026, valid...
United States President Donald Trump’s planned naval blockade of Iran would further cripple international shipping, exacerbating the energy crisis roiling...
Vidarbha’s Praful Hinge, 24, etched his name into the IPL record books on debut, striking three times in his very...
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...
Another incident that is etched in my memory also relates to Dr Karunaratna. I happened to be in his surgery when a poor lady brought her...
Coal-fired power generation remains a central component of Sri Lanka’s energy mix, with the Lakvijaya (Norochcholai) Power Plant contributing a substantial share of national electricity production....
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who underwent a surgery in Singapore, returned to the country yesterday morning (09). Former President Wickremesinghe departed for Singapore on March 15..
Initially CSE trading was somewhat volatile despite the ceasefire in West Asia but it experienced further volatility after Israel attacked Lebanon yesterday. However, the IMF delegation...
