Newspaper front pages featuring president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayake on display in Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 23, 2024. Sri Lankan politics changed course in September, when Anura Kumara ...

Research and Development (R&D) is set to play a key role in shaping Sri Lanka’s shift to a production-led, innovation-driven ...

Srilanka, May 8 -- Sri Lanka ranks 89th among the 193 countries featured in the 2025 Human Development Index (HDI) released recently by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Twelve women religious congregations in Sri Lanka have come together to address human trafficking, unsafe migration and exploitation of women and children in the island nation.

Sri Lanka vowed Thursday to urgently tackle costly clashes between villagers and wild elephants after reporting the deaths of nearly 1,200 people and more than 3,500 animals in a decade.

Staff at Media Empowerment for a Democratic Sri Lanka never expected their small initiative to become the target of the kind ...

Vision for Coexistence The human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka is more than an environmental issue; it is a test of the country’s ability to balance development with conservation. By prioritising ...

Nonetheless, the Yala’s swishing and gnashing of imported scythes & sickles and the humming & revving of imported harvesters, and who makes them, are not much heard from the Colombo media. The only ...

In my article “Is Sri Lanka’s recovery sustainable?” published in the Daily FT on 18 January 2024, I argued that Sri Lanka’s ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk last week expressed his complete support for the direction Sri Lanka is ...

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 ...