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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

State-run SriLankan Airlines will be re-looked at if the plan by the new board and current management fails, President Anura ...

From Kathmandu to Karachi, South Asia is in turmoil. Nepal has seen "Gen Z" protests erupt over inequality and political elitism, while in Bangladesh, students led a revolution last year that ended ...

The Colombo Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar has ordered the rejection of bail applications filed by former ministers ...

Mahendra Percy Rajapaksa, known to his country and the world at large as Mahinda Rajapaksa, will celebrate his 80th birth ...