By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana My mind started wandering from ‘Great Pretenders’ to ‘Lovable Rogues’ after reading Dr Upatissa Pethiyagoda’s response (More about Dr. Anton (Kara) Jayasuriya: The...
The Public Utilities Commission has ordered the Electricity Board to issue PRINTED BILLS to consumers, rather than SMS bills (Island 21 Jan.) The use of SMS as...
The public has been informed that the Minister of Civil Aviation, Bimal Ratnayake, has ordered the Director General of Civil Aviation Authority Sri Lanka (DGCAASL) to...
In The Island on January 20, Tillakaratne Lokubanda in his article “National schools, provincial schools, and international schools: A state-consented neo-caste system” wrote “After the 1956...
It was indeed a sad day and a great loss for members of his family, relatives and friends when Dr. Disampathy Subesinghe breathed his last in...
A state-consented neo-caste system by Lokubanda Tillakaratne (First part of this article appeared in The Island yesterday (20 Jan.) Some Thoughts as Solutions Village school students...
by Geewananda Gunawardana, Ph.D. In his excellent article on “Poor-quality and counterfeit medicines and unnecessary drugs” (The Island 06 January, 2025), Professor Saman Gunatilake wrote, “However,...
A few mornings ago, three SriLankan Airlines aircraft diverted to Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA), and a Turkish Airlines aircraft to Trivandrum, India, due to bad...
By Shiran Illanperuma (First part of this article appeared in The Island yesterday (13 Jan.) Sri Lanka in the International Sovereign Bond Debt-Trap Sri Lanka was...
by Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne(Retired from Sri Lanka Navy) Former Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Sri Lanka NavyThe Former Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner...