Sri Lanka’s fifth executive president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, will celebrate his 80th birth anniversary this week. Mahinda, born ...

Last week, Veteran journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj, writing the first of a two-part article on Mahinda Rajapaksa turning 80, aptly ...

Janaka Bandara this week requested the Colombo High Court to order that a report by a full medical board be obtained regarding claims that suspect Daisy Forrest has been suffering from dementia since ...

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday (10) told The Island that he wouldn’t join the Nugegoda protest rally as he was ...

Right-arm spinner Nushan Perera ended with an impressive match bag of 16 for 66 as he guided St. Joseph’s College to record a win by an innings and two runs over St. Servatius College, Matara in the ...

Mahendra Percy Rajapaksa known to his country and the world at large as Mahinda Rajapaksa will celebrate his 80th birth anniversary on 18 November 2025. In a political career spanning more than five ...

Prasanna Ranatunga, who formerly served as Sri Lanka's minister of tourism and civil aviation, was arrested Wednesday (Nov 12) by officials of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s 2026 Budget speech, while breaking symbolically from tradition, reveals a deeper continuity with ...

Yet when it comes to dealings in its own neighborhood, India has often behaved in decidedly illiberal ways, propping up autocratic regimes and meddling in the affairs of other sovereign countries. New ...

The defining characteristic of Sri Lanka’s economy is its foreign debt burden compounded by its debt repayment burden. Any ...

Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development, Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe told Parliament yesterday that the Government has decided to extend the existing pension scheme to public ...

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...