Eyebrows raised over Rs 21 mn project Several senior members of the Executive Committee of the Bar Association have sought...
Former President Maithripala Sirisena should not have handed over the SLFP leadership to Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakske, PC, on...
One of Europe’s most notorious people-smugglers has been arrested in Iraq following a BBC investigation. Barzan Majeed was arrested in...
A combination of lightning and rain forced the first abandoned game of IPL 2024 in Ahmedabad on Monday, and in...
The star prosecution witness in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, Michael Cohen, has taken the stand to testify against the...
United States’ Assistant Secretary Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Donald Lu, met President Ranil Wickremesinghe today (13) at...
At least 41 people have now been confirmed dead after hours of torrential rain triggered flash floods and cold lava...
A fifth successive win not only kept Royal Challengers Bengaluru in contention for a playoffs spot but also lifted them...
Chennai Super Kings signed off their home league campaign with a win, giving themselves a decent chance of coming back...
Advisory for Severe Lightning issued by the natural hazards early warning center at 01.00 p.m. 12 May 2024 for the...
Brian Benett’s all-round show and Sikandar Raza’s unbeaten 72 helped Zimbabwe seal a consolation win in the T20I series against...
It has been reported that former President Maithripala Sirisena has resigned from the post of Chairman of the Sri Lanka...
A joint search operation carried out by the Divisional Crime Investigation Bureau Puttlam and the Sri Lanka Navy in the Alankuda area of Kalpitiya on Saturday...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 13 May 2024 by the Department of Meteorology Due to a low-level atmospheric disturbance in the vicinity of Sri...
SLPP MP Sanjiva Edirimanna says the ruling party will announce its presidential candidate in mid-July. The Kalutara District MP said that there were several SLPP members...
Monday 13th May, 2024 An Indian-born physicist, Basab Dasgupta, residing in the US, tells us in his article published on this page today that his seat...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has issued a condolence message on the demise of Spiritual Father of Believer’s Eastern Church His Holiness Moran Mor Athanasius Yohan I Metropolitan...
The Navy and Special Task Force (STF) arrested a person at Kalladi on Saturday (11) after detecting 1,440 tablets of a potent painkiller in his car. This...
by Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Reading Shamindra Ferdinando’s excellent article, titled, ‘Solheim is back’ (The Island, 8 May) makes one wonder whether a new viceroy is in...
Rebel SLPP MP Dilan Perera, who recently closed ranks with the SJB, has said that those who now questioned the legitimacy of the SJB in the...
by Gamini Jayaweera In recent weeks, we have observed a disheartening spectacle unfold between the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and the JVP-led National People’s Power (NPP)...
Carmen Moreno the Ambassador of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Sri Lanka and her team visited the Pathfinder headquarters at Riverpoint, Peheliyagoda for...
Dissident SLPP MP Prof. G. L. Peiris has said over the weekend that the SC judgment on State Minister Diana Gamage wouldn’t in any way affect...
A two-week-long capacity building programme for officers of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) at India’s National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) will begin today (13)...
