After 14 years in hiding, when King Valagamba finally returned to reclaim his throne in Anuradhapura around 89 BCE, he paid ...

When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...

The Sri Lankan government continues to persecute the families of victims of enforced disappearance who seek to enforce their rights.

In Sri Lanka a united urban and rural working class had seized the commanding heights of the neocolonial export economy – transport and communications.

Sri Lanka has among the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, imposing long prison sentences for all abortions with exceptions only for saving a woman’s life.

Heading south east from the tea plantations of Sri Lanka’s highlands, vast tracts of jungle flow towards the beach through less-visited national parks like Gal Oya. Travellers can view the ...

Sri Lanka's customs authorities arrested on Friday a woman and seized the largest haul of cocaine ever detected at the country's main international airport, an official said. The unnamed 38-year ...

After Years of Turmoil, Sri Lanka Is Making a Return — Here's How to Visit The past few years have not been easy on this South Asian island, but the place — and its people — are on the upswing.

Long gone are the throngs of protesters who occupied an area around the president's office for months during Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis since independence. Instead a slew of carollers sang ...

A 35-year-old female tourist from China is in critical condition after leaning her body out of a moving train to pose for pictures in Sri Lanka, the latest casualty of a dangerous social media trend.

In a rare and a prestigious honour in the world of biological sciences, a newly discovered species of bronzeback snake has been named after one of Sri Lanka’s foremost herpetologists, Dr. A. A. Thasun ...

Sri Lanka’s default highlights the dangers of relying on international sovereign bonds – with high interest rates – to fund development.