Last ten overs took the game away from Sri Lanka, reckons Samaraweera
Hosts Sri Lanka tried to find a different route in order to reverse their fortunes in the ongoing five-match ODI series against South Africa as they o...
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De La Rue injects further Rs 2B in FDI
De La Rue, the leading global identity and currency printing business first entered into a Joint Venture (JV) with the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) ...
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Hilton Colombo leagues ahead of others
2017 revenue crosses Rs. 3 b mark, gross profit up 23% Chairman optimistic recent measures by Govt. to put the national economy back on gro...
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Vijayakala blames South and politicians
Government Parliamentarian Vijayakala Maheswaran on Friday charged that the South was responsible for supplying drugs to the North and that the menace...
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SAITM students registration to KDU today
The registration of SAITM students at the KDU would start today amidst strict regulations that those who failed to pay the course-fee by Monday would ...
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Marapana leads Lankan delegation at 25th ASEAN Regional Forum
Foreign Affairs Minister Tilak Marapana led the Sri Lanka delegation at the 25th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Ministerial Meeting held on 4 August in Si...
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COPE to grill key govt officials on shady power purchases
Sri Lanka had incurred heavy losses amounting to billions of rupees due to irregularities in purchasing power from private producers and the high pric...
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Lankan govenment reworking MoU on airport deal with India
The Sri Lankan government is reworking on the draft of a memorandum of understanding to hand over the management of Mattala Rajapaksha International A...
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Import duty on vehicles below 1000cc increased
The import duty on vehicles which are less than 1000cc has been increased with effect from today (August 1), the Finance Ministry said. Accordingly t...
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Salaries of ministers likely to be increased?
Salaries of ministers, deputy ministers, state ministers and all parliamentarians are likely to be increased by approximately 215 per cent to be on pa...
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Emirates shares of UL were transferred to State entities without Cabinet nod: Official
Shared held by Emirates in SriLankan Airlines worth $ 53 million were transferred to People’s Bank, National Savings Bank (NSB), and the Employees P...
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'We were a bunch of school kids when it came to today's fielding' - Mathews
Angelo Mathews put it bluntly: "We were a bunch of school kids when it came to today's fielding." Niroshan Dickwella said basically the same thing, ...
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US embassy Colombo sidesteps query on Haley’s assessment of HRC as UN’s ‘greatest failure’
Bogollagama praises previous govt arranging Paisley visits The US embassy in Colombo sent The Island a statement that reiterated US commitment to ensu...
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MADHU;DECLARED SACRED AREA
The Cabinet yesterday approved a proposal by President Maithripala Sirisena to declare the Holy Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu in Mannar as a sacred area...
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Afghanistan opens $3TN oil, gas, and mineral deposits to Sri Lanka
Afghanistan which packs over US $ 3 trillion in identified natural resources has issued an open call to Sri Lankan business sector to visit them, pros...
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Smartphone Rankings Shaken Up Once Again as Huawei Surpasses Apple
Moving into Second Position While Overall Market Declined 1.8% in Q2 2018, According to IDC According to preliminary data from the International Data ...
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KDU asks Rs. 6 mn from SAITM students
The first batch of the SAITM students, who were absorbed to the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KUD) for the MBBS Degree, had been ins...
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GOOGLE LOON PROJECT: DISCUSSIONS RECOMMENCE
Disrupt Asia - Start-up conference, Innovation festival on August 11 The ‘Google Loon’ project is still alive and discussions to solve the freq...
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Can Sri Lanka keep out South Africa's quicks?
01/08 - 02:30 PM +0530 2nd ODI (D/N), South Africa Tour of Sri Lanka at Dambulla, Aug 1 2018 Sri Lanka South Africa Just how far t...
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Prof. Carlo Fonseka forsees Rajitha as next Presidential candidate President Sirisena gives blessings
Former Sri Lanka Medical Council Chairman Prof. Carlo Fonseka yesterday (31) hinted that Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Dr. Raj...
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Advanced automated taxation system - a South Korean example
Framework for future CMC tax administration. Sri Lankan and South Korean officials have finalized policy recommendations and a framework to develop ...
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Moratuwa Uni undergrads invent Thermal Ablation device
A team comprising final year students of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa has developed an Endometrial Ablation device...
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MR to be de facto President if Pohottuwa wins next Presidential Election: General Secretary
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday asserted that if it won the next Presidential election, their candidate would ensure that former Pres...
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