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 ...

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, ...

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

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

Here is the story of the disastrous Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war which lead to the deaths of more than a 1 ...

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The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) led National People’s Power (NPP) Government of President Anura Kumara Disanayake created ...

The IMF Executive Board completed the Fourth Review under the 48-month Extended Fund Facility with Sri Lanka, providing the country with immediate access to SDR 254 million (about US$350 million) to ...