King Charles has hosted a spectacular state banquet for the president and first lady of Nigeria, praising the strengths of Nigeria’s partnership with the UK. After greeting the 160 guests in the ...

All credit to the Tamil Nadu government for taking concrete measures to perpetuate the memory of the renowned Mahatma Gandhi of India, who on account of his moral teachings stands on par with the ...

The symbolic expression of thought’ (The island 10.03.2026) delves deeper into an area that he has been exploring recently – childhood learning. In this article he writes of ‘a trilingual Sri Lanka’, ...

R.P.H.P. Perera (Trainer and Physiotheraphist), Nalin Wijesinghe (Head Coach), Rohan Fernando (MiC), Enosh Peterson (Captain), Rev. Fr. Rohitha Rodrigo (Rector), Rev. Fr. Praveen Wijesekara (Priest in ...

On 18 February 2026, Imperial College of Business Studies hosted the SQA Graduation Ceremony together with Colours Night 2026 at the Centre for Banking Studies, bringing together students, parents, ...

A group of 25 officials of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka officers, recently participated in a capacity-building programme at Reserve Bank Staff College, Chennai. The Indian High Commission ...

Oil prices leapt to nearly $110 a barrel after Iranian media reported an airstrike hitting a facility on the world’s largest natural gas field. The Brent crude oil benchmark hit $109.91 a barrel just ...

Sri Lanka’s small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, already grappling with post-crisis fragility, is facing a fresh wave of uncertainty as escalating tensions linked to a US-led conflict involving ...

Senior Professor Wasantha Athukorala of the Department of Economics at the University of Peradeniya, said that special weekly day off conserve the country’s energy, amidst the current situation, ...

The conflict involving Iran, the United States and Israel is increasingly being shaped by two sharply different strategic assumptions about what “victory” means, according to Middle East scholar ...

Member of Parliament Shanakiyan Rasamanickam has come under criticism after filing legal complaints, under the controversial Online Safety Act (OSA), against Tamil media organisations, journalists and ...

DFCC Bank PLC (DFCC Bank), through its women-focused proposition DFCC Aloka, has partnered with Chrysalis to expand financial access, business capacity, and market opportunities for women-led micro, ...