Dr. Harsha points out masses are burdened with cascading taxes While online casinos and betting roam free without being taxed...
Apropos ‘Creditor receives USD 2.5 mn as Lankan public bears loss from theft of Treasury funds’, government sources told The Island that...
It is not another anonymously sourced report about a rift between the United States and Israel. This time, the administration...
Vinicius Junior scored and assisted on one of Matheus Cunha’s two goals as five-time champion Brazil eliminated Haiti from the...
World leader Rumesh Tharanga registered his third consecutive Diamond League victory as he beat two-time world champion Anderson Peters for...
The United States showed they could win without Christian Pulisic, beating Australia 2-0 to reach the World Cup round of...
If you want to know the kind of pressure West Indies have put themselves under at the 3036 T20 Women’s...
New Zealand had another poor day in the field and were nearly embarrassed by Ireland on a glorious sunny day...
Jio Platforms, the telecom unit of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, has announced what analysts say could be one of...
Planned talks in Switzerland between the United States and Iran to discuss the technical terms of their ceasefire deal have...
Stafanie Taylor navigated a huge scare at the hands of Scotland as West Indies scrapped their way to a second...
Thirty-five people have been killed after gunmen struck Niger’s largest airport on Thursday, officials say – the second attack in...
Ajit Jayaratne Circumstances, both tragic and the vagaries of old age and ill-health, have prevented me from writing my regular weekly column, usually about US politics...
A Jewel in the Crown of Sri Lankan Conservation Born free…and wild…to a devoted mother who would sacrifice her life for you, and to others of...
(Continued from last week) 1981, was a quieter year, where most of the policy decisions taken earlier were being implemented. There were, however, one or two...
The Ashes of Lost Letters is a 2025 poetry collection by Sri Lankan poet Rasara T Siyara. The book comprises roughly 60 pages of English language...
(Continued from last week) Ranil Wickremesinghe set about managing the peace process like a chief executive officer of a corporate entity. The vision was clear: there...
The master copper artist known as Sooriya not only inspires many with his larger-than-life sculptures of whales and dolphins in Nānākuli, but also with his peaceful...
Who truly commands the foundations of the 21st-century economy? Which states possess the leverage to dictate the supply of critical minerals that underpin modern defence systems,...
(Part one of this article appeared in The Sunday Island on 17 August 2025) On becoming prime minister in February 2002, Ranil Wickremesinghe entered into a...
I was while in Europe last month to spend a couple of days in Sete by the Mediterranean, with Tamara Kunanayagam and her partner Jean Pierre...
CHAPTER 14 (Excerpted from N.U. JAYAWARDENA The first five decades) Politics and Kinship NU, who was an outsider in caste and class terms, had succeeded inreaching...
An article in the NYT by Cara Buckley reporting from Brunswick, Maine, on August 20, got me on my favourite topic: Libraries. Her title was “Why...
Sri Lanka is positioning itself as a clean energy investment hub in South Asia, pledging to deliver “profitable, reliable, and quality energy solutions” while driving down...
