Divers searching the wreckage of a super yacht which sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday have found the bodies of five of the six missing passengers, and recovered four of them to shore.
The Italian Coastguard has not...
March 12 Movement expands live debate, ready to accept all 39 candidates
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Jana Aragala Sandhanaya (JAS) has questioned President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s contradictory positions on the Supreme Court order that an Acting IGP be appointed pending the conclusion of...
By Prof.Kirthi Tennakone
Humans are not united as a species. Divisions based on geography, ethnicity, coloir, religion, opinions and other attributes present everywhere dominate the social and political dynamics of the world.
Nobody knows why this happens: a naïve explanation is...
Samoa batter Darius Visser has broken the men’s T20I record for most runs in an over, against Vanuatu in the T20 World Cup East Asia-Pacific Region Qualifier in Apia on Tuesday. Visser finished with a score of 132 off...
Showers or thundershowers will sometimes occur in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and North-western provinces and Kandy and Nuwara-Eliya districts. Fairly heavy showers above 75 mm are likely at some places in Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and Galle and Matara districts.
Showers or thundershowers...
Religious observances will be held on 25th August 2024 to mark the 100th Birth Anniversary of the late legal luminary Ebetota Atukoralage Dharmasena Atukorale, well known as E.A.D. Atukorale, who hailed from Batugedera, Ratnapura, .
A product of Ananda College,...
By Rathindra Kuruwita
The March 12 Movement is planning to host a debate, for the first time in history, among six leading candidates contesting the Presidential Election.
Rohana Hettiarachchi, Executive Director of People’s Action for Free & Fair Elections (PAFFREL), told The Island yesterday...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 18 August 2024 by the Department of Meteorology
Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-western provinces and in Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya, Galle and Matara districts. Fairly heavy showers above 75 mm are...
Wigneswarn finds fault with Sumanthiran
Presidential Election:
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Thamil Makkal Thesiya Kuttani (TMTK) leader C. V. Wigneswaran, MP, yesterday (18), said they had fielded Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran as an independent candidate at the forthcoming Presidential Election to draw attention of Sri Lankans,...
Wigneswarn finds fault with Sumanthiran
Presidential Election:
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Thamil Makkal Thesiya Kuttani (TMTK) leader C. V. Wigneswaran, MP, yesterday (18), said they had fielded Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran as an independent candidate at the forthcoming Presidential Election to draw attention of Sri Lankans,...