News Room : Showers above 50mm are likely at some places in Western, Sabaragamuwa and Northern provinces and in Galle, Matara and Puttalam districts – The Island
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 16 September 2023 by the Department of Meteorology Several spells of showers will occur in Western, Sabaragamuwa and...
News Room : Economy shows signs of recovery; CBSL optimistic
The country’s economy has contracted at the rate of 3.1% in the second quarter of 2023, according to recent data by the Census and...
News Room : Girl, 5, killed after Italian military jet crash in Turin
An Italian military jet has crashed while taking part in an acrobatic exercise in Turin killing a five-year-old girl in a car on the...
News Room : Antarctic sea-ice at ‘mind-blowing’ low alarms experts – The Island
By Shihar Aneez ECONOMYNEXT –The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) informed the members of the EPF, the country’s largest pension scheme, that it has...
News Room : Poland: Government under pressure over escalating cash for visas scandal
The speaker of Poland’s upper house of parliament has called on the government to reveal what it knew about an escalating cash for visas...
News Room : Curiouser and curiouser …
Saturday 16th September, 2023 Channel 4’s recent programme on the Easter Sunday terror attacks has yielded the intended results. It influenced the UNHRC ahead of...
News Room : Mendis, Asalanka nail tricky chase to set up India-Sri Lanka final
Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan in a last-ball cliffhanger by two wickets, courtesy a platform-setting innings by Kusal Mendis, and a crucial finish by Charith...
News Room : PAFFREL calls upon Constitutional Council to make Election Commission financially independent – The Island
By Rathindra Kuruwita The Constitutional Council (CC) is responsible for creating a legal framework to ensure that independent commissions are financially independent, but even after...
News Room : Death toll in Libya’s Derna flooding could reach 20,000: Mayor – The Island
Derna Mayor Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi has told Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television that the estimated number of deaths in the city could reach between 18,000 to...
News Room : The Philippines looks askance at evidence gathering mechanism – The Island
UNHRC report on Sri Lanka The Philippines has questioned the allocation of as much as USD 10 mn for Geneva-based evidence gathering mechanism to inquire...