By Ifham Nizam The human-elephant conflict has left 132 humans and 412 elephants dead so far this year. About 405 elephants died in 2019. Biodiversity Conservation and Research Circle, Convener Supun Lahiru Prakash told The Island that there was no hope for a sustainable solution, even next year. Prakash also dismissed claims made by Agriculture, […]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will distribute 36,000 metric tonnes of Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) fertilizer to all paddy farmers in Sri Lanka through the Ministry of Agriculture.

The agreement on exemption of visa requirements for holders of diplomatic and officials passports between Sri Lanka and Cambodia has come into effect from December 24, 2022.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe today (Dec 27) made changes to the posts of two ministerial secretaries.

Minister of Tourism Harin Fernando states that 701,331 tourists visited Sri Lanka between January 2022 and December 26, 2022.

Three shipments of coal are scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on January 05, 09 and 16, Minister of Power Energy Kanchana Wijesekera says.

Requests have reportedly been made by 5,401 individuals to the Department of Immigration and Emigration for obtaining dual citizenship in the year 2021.

By Jehan Perera The night bus to Jaffna was also fully booked. Those who had returned on holiday from the diaspora were happy to be back and to share their views. One said he had spent two weeks in Colombo and was now on his way to spend two weeks in Jaffna. He spoke fondly of the […]

21-A prerequisite for IMF loan: By Shamindra Ferdinando Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, owed an explanation as regards his claim that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had demanded the enactment of 21 Amendment to the Constitution as a prerequisite for the finalisation of USD 2.9 bn Extended Fund Facility Arrangement (EFFA) with Sri Lanka, retired […]

by Prasanna Cooray Speaking at a cremony to felicitate vetran filmmaker Dharmasiri Bandaranayake, at the Tharangani auditorium, National Film Corporation, Colombo 7, recently, Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda said Dharmasiri had changed the language of Sinhala cinema. At the event, titled “Rebel Creativity”, Bandaranayake received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ruhuna and the life...

Text and pictures by PRIYAN DE SILVA Vidyajothi Emeritus Prof. Sarath Kotagama, delivering the keynote address at the International Symposium on ‘Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism’, recently, said Sri Lanka’s unique biodiversity should be the basis of the country’s tourism industry. Prof. Kotagama regretted that it had not been recognized by the tourism industry yet. ...

By Rathindra Kuruwita About 497 Sri Lankans have been killed in violence during the first 11 months of 2022, according to crime statistics released by the police. Out of them, 223 deaths were caused by shooting and assault. About 3,596 instances of kidnappings with the intention of collecting ransoms have been recorded. This is a […]

Tuesday 27th December, 2022 The 18th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami was marked yesterday with a series of commemorative ceremonies. More than 35,000 lives were lost in this country because most Sri Lankans had not even heard the word, tsunami, despite being members of an island nation, and ignored the early warning signs of […]

By Dr Laksiri Fernando One mistake we normally make in analysing the situation or crisis in Sri Lanka is to do it in isolation. Sri Lanka is unfortunately only a part of a world system. Although this situation is valid to almost all other countries, smaller or weaker a country, larger are the effects of […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita  The national fuel consumption had dropped by 50 percent towards the latter part of 2022, compared to the first few months of the year, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said. The CPC said that in the first few months of 2022, the daily petrol and diesel consumption had increased. The daily fuel […]

An independent judicial panel has ruled an earlier prosecutors decision not to indict officials at an immigration center in Nagoya, Japan over the 2021 death of a Sri Lankan detainee is unjust, paving the way for the case to be reconsidered, it said Monday.