News Room : Mrs. Nicol’s Century – The Island
By George Braine
My father was the youngest of nine children. They grew up not far from Negombo, in their mother’s ancestral village of Boralessa....
News Room : Sirisena claims SLFP now attracting a better class of politicians – The...
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in...
News Room : FSP frowns on increases in defence expenditure – The Island
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in...
News Room : Another huge waste of money is uncovered.
An audit report reveals that the Ministry of Finance has spent nearly ten crores in 2018 to inform the public about the budget and...
News Room : CID questions Semini over connection to Thilini Priyamali
The Criminal Investigation Department has interrogated and obtained a statement for nearly 4 hours from popular film and television actress Semini Iddamalgoda for the...
News Room : Derana slammed for using ‘Jenny’ a near-threatened species of parrot as...
Environmentalists have slammed the Derana TV channel for their recent use of a ‘Near Threatened’ species of parrot in one of its cricket-related program...
News Room : US embassy official robbed in Colombo
A female US embassy official has been robbed on the streets of Colombo. The woman had been walking down a street in the Cinnamon...
News Room : S Korea in national mourning after deadly Halloween crowd crush –...
151 people including 19 foreigners killed
(Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people,...
News Room : Outsiders occupying MPs’ Madiwala quarters; Speaker orders probe
Security guards, defeated lawmakers among them
By Saman indarajith
Acting on complaints that some persons are unlawfully occupying many of the MPs’ quarters at Madiwela, Speaker...
News Room : Minister shines light on tycoons’ liquor racket
Unauthorised spirit production up by 300%
‘Local brew producers cheated even the British’
A century-old practice of tax evasion by liquor producers had reached a new...