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By Easwaran Rutnam The latest biography of slain Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge titled 'Unbowed and Unafraid' which was released in Colombo today, exposes some of the false promises allegedly given by then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Prior to and following the 2015 elections Wickremesi

The program to distribute free rice to 2.9 million low-income families commenced March (26) in the Colombo District under the patronage of President&#...

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced on Monday that the fourth edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) will be held from July 31 onwards and will conclude on Aug

Weather forecast isssued at 05.30 a.m. on 26 March 2023 Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-Western provinces and in Galle and Matara districts during the afternoon or night. Fairly heavy showers about 50mm are likely at some places. Showers or thundershowers may occur at a few places in […]

The adventure trail 'Raid Amazones 2023' kicked off in Kandy this week. Nearly 250 female athletes from France are participating in the trail in Sri Lanka’s hill capital. Raid Amazones is the world's only itinerant women’s adventure race and SriLankan Airlines is the Presenting Partner of the ev

Seeing through testing times and the future Text of the Keynote address By Prof Rajiva Wijesinha at the 8th International Research Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura on 16 March, 2023. At the beginning of this year I read again, after well over half a century, a delightful book […]

Police Chief Karl Jacobson has recommended that four city police officers be fired for their roles in the mishandling of Richard “Randy” Cox, roughly nine…

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana The malign influence of casteism was well explained in the editorial, “Canker of clientelism” (The Island, 14 March) wherein it was stated: “Caste-based politics has stood many crooks in good stead, and led to the presence of so many semi-literate politicians in Parliament, which has control over public finance. Some of […]

By I. P. C. MENDIS Ranil Wickremesinghe has emerged as the chief “dramatis personae” in the current constitutional deadlock drama. Whether the stars had foretold the event is not known. He was never a man in a hurry.  He was cool as a cucumber when he was sacked as Prime Minister by the latter and […]

Sri Lanka is fast creating a Viyathmaga II. When observing how various categories of professionals – teachers, musicians, artists, officers from armed forces, doctors …. are getting on a single stage, it reminds us how Viyathmaga was formed and what they did and finally how its choice carried the whole country towards disaster. Whatever happened […]