The quiet hills of Hantane echoed with the crack of gunfire and the disciplined rhythm of competitive shooting as the Hill Country Sport Shooting Club staged its flagship tournament, Sharp Shooter ...
Three hours after the spectacular Artemis II flight launch in Florida, US President Donald Trump delivered a forlorn speech from Washington. Thirty three days after starting the war against Iran as ...
Sameer Rizvi picked up his second Player-of-the-Match award in as many games in IPL 2026, this time scoring 90 off 51 balls ...
Once more, a public gathering to discuss J. R. Jayewardene was held last week. A country that has written so extensively on this phenomenal figure should, prima facie, have at least one person who ...
The start of the People and Events column in the Sunday Island was incidental, informal and fortuitous. At a Kandy Girls’ High School OGA dinner dance in the late 1990s I was at the same table with ...
In August this year it will be 50 years since Sri Lanka hosted the fifth Non-Aligned Summit in Colombo – the high point in our foreign relations. I thought it appropriate in that context to comment on ...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 05 APRIL 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 05 April 2026 by the Department of Meteorology  Misty conditions can be expected at some places in the Western, Central, Sabaragamuwa, Uva ...
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri Lanka during 05th to 15th of April in this year. The nearest areas of Sri Lanka over which ...
Sri Lanka Insurance Life (SLIC Life) was recognised at the prestigious ‘Great Managers Awards 2025’, held on 26th March 2026 at Cinnamon Grand, Colombo, marking a significant milestone as the first ...
When you look at Sri Lanka, we have many modern figures who created worlds within this country. Men and women whose bones are buried, yet whose works endure and continue to shape generations. Take the ...
On 29 March 2026, The Island reproduced an article by founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, Milinda Moragoda, titled, ‘Cuba and the end of an era’. In the article, Moragoda argued that the crisis ...
Bernie Stefan is the Chairman and Managing Director of Nestlé Lanka Limited, overseeing Nestlé’s operations in Sri Lanka and the Maldives. He assumed this role in March 2023. Under his leadership, ...