Bell 212 accident during passing out parade kills six military personnel, injures six others A Bell 212 helicopter, belonging to...
Nearly half a century has passed since the Catholic Church last had an Italian Pope. In the hallowed corridors of...
India and Pakistan agree to a full and immediate ceasefire the pause began at 17:00 local time (12:30 BST) India...
A diver has died during preliminary operations to recover British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht from the waters off the...
The Sri Lanka Coast Guard launched an operation to clear the oil spill caused by the crash of a Sri...
Virat Kohli has communicated his desire to retire from Test cricket to the BCCI ahead of the big five-match series...
Russia has marked the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II with a massive military...
The remainder of PSL 2025 has been postponed indefinitely. The PCB cited the “worsening of the situation” at the Pakistan-India...
The new Pope, Leo XIV, has called in his first Mass at the Vatican for the Catholic Church to “desperately”...
The second phase of bidding for the sale of 27 luxury and decommissioned vehicles owned by the Presidential Secretariat has...
Annerie Dercksen’s maiden ODI century – which came off the back of two successive fifty-plus scores and is also the...
Vladimir Putin has led Russia’s Victory Day commemorations with a parade in Red Square and heightened security after days of...
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The Sri Lankan coconut authorities awarded Nestle at an official event on World Coconut Day, in recognition of its high foreign exchange contribution as one of...
by Raja Waidyasekara Irrigation, Internal Security, Home Affairs and Disaster Management Minister, Chamal Rajapaksa unveiled plans to start a new pharmaceuticals factory in the Hambantota district...
Shivanthi Ranasinghe The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) got a nasty shock at the recently concluded general elections. Meera Sirinivasan for The Hindu warns in the article...
S Godage and Brothers (Pvt) Ltd have made awards to the authors of the best of their publications in the three languages and in all genres...
Within days of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa announcing his proposal to ban cattle slaughter but permit beef imports at a meeting of the government parliamentary group,...
The Hambantota International Port was a part sponsor of the recent ‘Suriduni Kataragama 2020,’ festival of the Ruhunu Kataragama Devalaya. The biggest annual multi-cultural event of...
BY SURESH PERERA The heart-wrenching news of the untimely death of senior journalist Zacky Jabbar (60) left his colleagues at The Island devastated. Nobody expected Zacky...
The Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS), the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) recently conducted a webinar...
The sentiments expressed by Professor Kumar David in his article titled, “CEB’s LTGEP the best strategy” published on September 3, 2020 differs significantly from the power...
by Zanita Careem Set in a healing serene ambience in Anuradhapura, the ayurvedic health centre ” Adhitya “offers congenial surrounding for the powerful cures of the...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma Bob Woodward’s latest book, “RAGE”, to be released soon, is written from tapes of several interviews he conducted with Trump, from February to...
by a special correspondent From time to time, organizations and individuals have attempted to examine measures taken by Sri Lanka relating to international relations and national...
