A Buddhist monk who had failed to pay a bill amounting to Rs. 500 000 to the Hilton Hotel in Colombo has been arrested and remanded till 11 November. The monk from Mahiyangana had stayed at the Hilton for...
Sri Lankan author and Booker prize winner Shehan Karunathilake has responded to plagiarism allegations levelled by local journalist and Attorney Rajpal Abeynayake.
Abeynayake has claimed Karunathilake had based his prize-winning novel ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ on a manuscript...
Sri Lanka’s first case of monkeypox has been reported after an arrival from Dubai was detected as having been infected with the virus. The patient, a 20-year-old male had arrived in Sri Lanka on 1 November, the Ministry of...
question delay in seeking required funding
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. G.L.Peiris yesterday (03) said that if Local Government polls were to be held by March 20, 2023 as scheduled, the Election Commission (EC) should take tangible...
By Rathindra Kuruwita
Over 3,400 elephants have been killed since 2011, the last elephant census in the country, and the official elephant population figures are bogus, Sajeewa Chamikara of the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR) told The Island...
Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan sustained a bullet injury in his leg after shots were fired at a rally in Gujranwala, yesterday.Azhar Mashwani, an official with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, confirmed to Al Jazeera that the...
British police officers deployed in Qatar for the World Cup will act as “cultural interpreters” between fans and local law enforcement, says Chief Constable Mark Roberts.Roberts, the national lead on football policing, said British police are not there to...
question delay in seeking required funding
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. G.L.Peiris yesterday (03) said that if Local Government polls were to be held by March 20, 2023 as scheduled, the Election Commission (EC) should take tangible...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has, in a letter to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, said that Parliament has not made satisfactory progress in making far-reaching systematic changes that the country needs.According to the Presidential Media Division, the President has said Parliament...
By: M. A. Kaleel
Sri Lanka could go bankrupt again and again in the years to come like Argentina, Dr. Rohan Pethiyagoda, one of Sri Lanka’s foremost biodiversity experts said at the convocation of the Sri Jayewardenepura University.The engineer turned...