The Opposition has a habit of opposing every move of the government, whether it is good or bad. It is protesting against the government to impose...
Prescription for anti-depressants are done merrily by Sri Lankan Psychiatrists particularly in the form of SSRI’s (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) and SNRI’s (Selective Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitors)...
The Sri Lankan rupee is coming crashing down. Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa himself admitted this in parliament, in the debate on just a one percent fine...
We are going through tumultuous times, indeed. The COVID pandemic is the main challenge facing the nation as much as it is to the entire world....
4th Commemorative Anniversary Deshamanya Marhoom Al Haj Mohammed Abdul Bakeer Markar’s ancestry is traced to Sheik Jamaluddeen-Al-Maghdoomi, an Arab settler in Beruwala. His father Hakeem Alia...
This article is to educate the general public how a group of present- day Brahmins, who assume they are leaders in Urban Development are trying to...
The Island editorial centres around a story of stripping off the gold medal won by a Malaysian Shot Put winner, Ziyad Zolkefli, an intellectually disability player...
By ROHANA R WASALA Ref. ‘Compulsory training to instil discipline, not jeopardise freedom of choice’ by Rear Admiral (Rtd) Dr Sarath Weerasekera/The Island/September 4, 2021. It...
I refer to the article written by Mr. Palitha Manchanayaka in The Island regarding the Parakrama Samudraya bund on which a jogging path was to be...
The following news item of a Reuters report from Launceseon on 19th Aug, 2021, captioned ‘Column- Asia Coal Demands Surge in Stark Contrast with U.N Climate...