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...
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...
Kuwait’s emir has dissolved the parliament and taken over some of its duties, state media reported, weeks after the Gulf...
Swiss singer Nemo has won the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden, with their song The Code. A compelling hybrid of...
On an evening that started with the ball swinging around like a boomerang following plenty of rain in Kolkata, Kolkata...
England overcame a terrible start against Pakistan via a match-saving partnership between Amy Jones and Heather Knight followed by a...
James Anderson, the highest wicket-taking paceman in Test cricket, has announced that the first Test against West Indies to be...
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)...
‘EC should review utterly flawed process of registering political parties’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Civil society activist Oshla Herath says the Supreme Court judgment in the case...
