A salary increase in the range of 15 to 20 percent is currently under discussion within the Ceylon Electricity Board...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has said that the ongoing war in the Middle East has disrupted fuel supplies to Sri...
Oil prices leapt to nearly $110 a barrel after Iranian media reported an airstrike hitting a facility on the world’s...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre of the Department of Meteorology at 3.30 p.m. on...
Four persons including a Budhist monk died and 32 others were injured when two SLTB buses collided head on at...
Families have gathered outside a drug treatment centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, looking for their loved ones after it...
African football’s governing body has stripped Senegal of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title they won in a chaotic...
Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre of the Department of Meteorology at 3.30 p.m. on...
Israel has claimed two high profile assassinations of Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, according to Israel’s...
New Zealand levelled the five-match T20I series against South Africa with a dominant performance in Hamilton. After being put in...
The Israeli military has claimed in a post on X Tuesday that it has killed Gholamreza Soleimani, the commander of...
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is planning to delay a high stakes visit to China later...
King Charles has hosted a spectacular state banquet for the president and first lady of Nigeria, praising the strengths of Nigeria’s partnership with the UK. After...
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that the government’s objective is to ensure the environment for the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption [CIABOC]...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 19 MARCH 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 19 March 2026 by the Department of Meteorology Misty conditions can be expected at some...
Iran’s intelligence minister Esmail Khatib has been killed, the country’s president has confirmed. Masoud Pezeshkian said the “cowardly assassination” had left Iran “in deep mourning”, after...
Thursday 19th March, 2026 Whenever the JVP-NPP government gets into hot water, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake rushes to Parliament and makes special statements; the CID and...
Wars often produce moments when leaders feel compelled to seek a decisive stroke that will end the conflict once and for all. History shows that such...
A head-on collision between two SLTB buses at Thurusevana-Weerawila, on the Ambalantota–Kataragama road, yesterday morning, claimed four lives and left 40 others injured. Of the injured,...
Dr. B.J.C. Perera (Dr. BJCP) in his article ‘Language: The symbolic expression of thought’ (The island 10.03.2026) delves deeper into an area that he has been...
The Jaffna Magistrate’s Court has directed that the third phase of excavation at the Chemmani mass grave commence on 20 April. The case was taken up...
Managing Director of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), Dr. Mayura Neththikumarage, said yesterday (18) that QR‑based fuel quotas would be issued under an odd–even system from...
The conflict involving Iran, the United States and Israel is increasingly being shaped by two sharply different strategic assumptions about what “victory” means, according to Middle...
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