China’s Yang Jiechi and President Rajapaksa When a recent top level Chinese delegation came here, they had a touching message for Sri Lanka. The message was.....
With Covid-19 forcing me to stay at home my mind roams around what I read in “The Island” and hear on TV. And questions arise frequently,...
The number of worldwide COVID-19 deaths had risen to 1,117,641 by Monday. There is no sign of a vaccine being found to permanently control it. It...
‘Origin of current Covid-19 wave’, and ‘Mystery of latest Covid-19 cluster and its origins’ are the titles of two articles published in The Island newspaper of...
A very popular brand of rice, packed in an orangish yellow bag with red and blue lettering (5 Kg) with MRP as Rs. 600.00 is being...
The latest massive Covid-19 surge of over 1,700 cases at the point of writing popularly referred to as the “Brandix Cluster” is fast becoming the most...
There is, at present, a scientific debate on the relative merit of lockdown and herd immunity in the management of Covid-19 with substantial amount of good...
While adhering scrupulously to all the Covid-19 health regulations, we should not neglect chanting /offering our ritual prayers to overcome this Coronavirus pandemic. The Buddhists should...
Yes, our politicians’ love for foreign loans is well known and needs no explanation. Yet, isn’t the same love pushing the nation slowly but surely towards...
By ROHANA R. WASALA Feisal Mansoor (‘Muslims and ban on cattle slaughter’/The Island/October 9, 2020) opens his piece with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi, obviously taken...