Yes, our politicians’ love for foreign loans is well known and needs no explanation. Yet, isn’t the same love pushing the nation slowly but surely towards...
Supporting the ‘fighters’, admiring the ‘survivors’, honoring the ‘taken’ and never, ever giving up ‘hope’! By Rochelle Palipane Gunaratne The month of October is dedicated globally...
Book Review: By P G Punchihewa and Mallika Karunaratne ISBN No: 978-955-54441-1-8: 186 pages: Price Rs 360. Reviewer: Jolly Somasundram Hinduism and Buddhism, the world’s oldest...
From left to right: Sulochana Maddumage, Associate Manager – Administration of Persistent Systems Lanka, Kirthi Hettiarachchi, Deputy National Director; Gayantha Dalpadado, Assistant Director – Head of...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stressed the need to put in place a mechanism to help both the producer and the consumer by ensuring that commodities are...
Korean ambassador expresses thankfulness by donating re-usable fabric masks to Sri Lanka Police Woonjin Jeong, ambassador of the Republic of Korea met with Acting Inspector General...
By Chitra Weerarathne The Court of Appeal yesterday fixed for support next Tuesday (20) the writ application filed by former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, seeking a prohibition...
By ROHANA R. WASALA Feisal Mansoor (‘Muslims and ban on cattle slaughter’/The Island/October 9, 2020) opens his piece with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi, obviously taken...
Saturday 17th October, 2020 It is being argued in some quarters that the Easter Sunday carnage could have been averted if the police had been given...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Former minister Kabir Hashim had had a telephone conversation, two days before the Easter Sunday attacks, with Abdul Latheef Hakeem Mohamed, brother of...