An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a move hailed as a long-overdue conservation victory, Sri Lanka has formally ...

Colombo, as Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, hosts the highest concentration of tuition classes and private tutors. According ...

What is its connection to Thesawalamai law — and did this law exist before these so-called Malabars arrived in Sri Lanka? Why ...

Sri Lanka stands at a critical juncture in its post-independence history. The echoes of past upheavals, particularly the ...

Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education, Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, emphasized that the ...

Showers will occur at times in the Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in Nuwara-Eliya, Kandy, Galle and Matara districts. Several spells of showers may occur in the North-western province. ...

When the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) arrived in Sri Lanka on July 30, 1987, New Delhi did not expect to be embroiled in a bloody conflict with the ...

Union Health Minister and BJP National President JP Nadda engaged with the Chairman of the Saudi-India Business Council, ...

BYD, the world’s leading new energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturer, together with its authorised distributor in Sri Lanka John Keells CG Auto (JKCG Auto) announced its expansion into the east coast with ...

The gruesome discovery is further evidence of the atrocities committed during the brutal communal war, unleashed by ...

Sri Lanka’s estimated poverty (share of the population living on less than $3.65 a day) remains stubbornly high, affecting as much as a quarter of the population in 2024, and twice as high as in 2021.

Young birder Lahiru Walpita begins most of his days at dawn by scanning the skies for seabirds along the coastline in ...