News Room : Silt and dregs
Monday 28th August, 2023 There are no signs of the skies opening up anytime soon to end the prevailing drought. The Meteorological Department announced yesterday...
News Room : Showers in Western, Sabaragamuwa and Uva provinces and Galle, Matara, Ampara and Batticaloa districts – The Island
Heat index Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre At 07.30 p.m. 26 August 2023, valid for 27 August 2023 Heat index, the...
News Room : Nine dead as gas canister sets off deadly explosion on train in India
A fire on a train carriage has killed nine people in India, after a gas canister used by passengers to make drinks exploded, officials...
News Room : Formal training for preschool teachers and teaching assistants – State Minister – The Island
By Saman Indrajith Successive governments had not followed national disaster guidelines formulated after the 2004 tsunami disaster, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament yesterday...
News Room : No govt. has followed national disaster guidelines for past 18 yrs – The Island
By Saman Indrajith Successive governments had not followed national disaster guidelines formulated after the 2004 tsunami disaster, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament yesterday...
News Room : Some plastics used in SL hard to recycle – The Island
By Saman Indrajith Successive governments had not followed national disaster guidelines formulated after the 2004 tsunami disaster, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament yesterday...
News Room : Trump Surrenders
Former President Donald Trump turned himself in on Thursday at the Fulton County jail on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts...
News Room : Eight thousand more teachers to be recruited for government schools – State Minister – The Island
The United Kingdom has made medical history with doctors carrying out the country’s first womb transplant. Surgeons at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford successfully transplanted...
News Room : Suspension of LNG project irks Opp. – The Island
Herath asks whether govt. wants to pave the way for new player By Shamindra Ferdinando The Cabinet-approved national energy policy related to the development of natural...
News Room : Cambodian parliamentarians elect Hun Sen’s son, Hun Manet, as new PM
Cambodia’s national assembly has officially elected the eldest son of outgoing premier Hun Sen to be the country’s new prime minister, a transition of...