Sri Lanka must shift its focus towards fostering innovation, empowering entrepreneurs, and moving beyond its current economic trajectory to achieve a prosperous future with a sustained growth rate ...

As the global order undergoes sweeping shifts, with geopolitics, trade tensions, and macroeconomic uncertainty converging, small economies such as Sri Lanka find themselves at a critical ...

Sri Lanka is on track to post growth of 3.5% this year after 5% last year, the World Bank said in its latest report, unchanged from its October forecast.

Under the IMF’s stringent conditions, ordinary Sri Lankans face exorbitant increases in the cost of living. In sharp contrast ...

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to his Sri Lankan counterpart, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, informing him that the United States will impose a 30 percent tariff on all Sri Lankan exports ...

Sri Lanka has the right balance of monetary policy at the moment, and domestic inflation is expected to turn positive around next month, Central Bank of Sri Lanka Governor P. Weerasinghe said on ...

Staff at Media Empowerment for a Democratic Sri Lanka never expected their small initiative to become the target of the kind of fake news it had actively worked to fight against.

In recent years, Sri Lanka has faced multiple crises that have eroded development gains and increased poverty, job, and food insecurity. Despite these challenges, local authorities have been at the ...

A family member of Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was arrested by the country's anti-graft body on Friday (June 27, 2025), officials said.

Sri Lanka’s new president with Marxist-leanings wins two-thirds majority in parliament The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a two-thirds ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk concluded a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka from 23 to 26 June 2025.

An estimated 500,000 students and 150,000 teachers across Sri Lanka are set to benefit from a new $50 million additional financing package approved by the World Bank yesterday through its ongoing ...