by Rex Clementine Colombo Colts Cricket Club celebrated its 150th anniversary at the club premises on Saturday with President Ranil Wickremesinghe and first lady Prof. Maithree...
By Saman indrajith Parliament session allotted for the Second Reading debate on the Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill and the Finance Bill were put off yesterday...
Contrary to various local and foreign reports about the death of three Sri Lankan ex-military personnel in Ukraine last week, the Army said that one of...
By Rathindra Kuruwita and Sirimantha Rathnasekara The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) said yesterday it would conduct an internal inquiry into the countrywide power failures on Saturday....
Monday 11th December, 2023 Yesterday’s parliamentary session had to be adjourned until today for want of a quorum. While the VAT (Amendment) Bill was being debated,...
Keynote address delivered by Prof. Premakumara de Silva at a recent ceremony to mark the launch of Prof. C. R. de Silva Felicitation Volume on ‘Essays...
By Eng. Thushara Dissanayake Sri Lanka is ranked high in terms of climate change impacts facing a multitude of hazards. Impacts of climate change vary by...
In a letter published by The Island recently, Mrs. Goolbai Gunasekera, has showered us with pearls of wisdom drawn from her life-long experience as an educator.In The Island of 06...
The ‘Civil Society Initiative on Anti-Corruption Reform for Economic Recovery,’ led by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) and comprising Verité Research, Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA),...
Indian fishers continued to engage in illegal fishing in Sri Lankan waters in spite of regular arrests of poaching trawlers, a senior Navy official said. The...