Sri Lanka’s new leader must avoid scandals and pursue domestic and foreign policies that centre on improving the island’s ...

More than 250 people from 20 nationalities, including a Sri Lankan national, who had been working in telecom fraud centres in Myanmar’s Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and ...

Incoming PCA chair Oliver Hannon-Dalby has welcomed the sudden influx of cash into English cricket brought about through the ...

This photo essay provides a glimpse of the working life of nattami, labourers exclusively involved in transporting goods ...

The Hindu majority Meitei community in Manipur state is hopeful of peace being restored after a leadership change in the troubled northeast Indian state, amid reiteration of demand for a separate ...

In many ways, 'Theory & Practice' is like a coming-of-age novel or perhaps a coming-to-writing novel. Author Michelle de Kretser is a beautifully sly writer.

I was delighted to have made my first official visit to Sri Lanka following the recent formation of President Dissanayake’s ...

Legendary West Indies batter Chris Gayle has backed Virat Kohli to do well in the Champions Trophy. Gayle has said if Kohli is able to do well in the ICC tournament, it will prolong his ODI career.

The Tamil scholar “Pundit” M. Nallathamby, a teacher at Zahira College, Colombo was entrusted this task and a neat, precise ...

Authorities conducted autopsies on Monday after the deaths of two foreign tourists who died earlier this month while ...

Usvatte-aratchi Two thoughtful short essays on schools and education appeared in The Island newspaper on January 20th and 21st. The first was written by Lokubandara Tillakaratne, and the second by ...