An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission team led by Mr. Evan Papageorgiou, IMF Mission Chief for Sri Lanka, visited Colombo during July 21-25, 2025, to discuss recent macroeconomic developments ...

Sri Lanka’s top court has ordered the owners of a Singapore-flagged container ship that sank in 2021 to pay $1 billion in compensation for causing the most severe marine environment catastrophe ...

Sri Lanka’s rupee opened at 301.78/82 to the US dollar in the spot market Friday, slightly stronger from 301.80/85 the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Maldives— with its symbolic, strategic, and economic weight — is aimed not just ...

Health and Mass Media Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa says more specialist doctors who have completed training abroad are now choosing to stay in Sri Lanka instead of leaving the country. ..

Sri Lanka's central government debt edged up to 96.7 percent of gross domestic product by March 2025 from 96.1 percent in ...

South Korea's president has ordered officials to prevent the mistreatment of migrant workers after a video sparked public ...

Rugby administration in the country took another turn yesterday when the Colombo District Court issued an Enjoining Order preventing seven defendants, including the Working Task Force (WTF) of Sri ...

With Tamil Nadu assembly elections around the corner, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to undertake a two-day visit to the state during which he will take part in the 1,000th birth anniversary ...

Tamil cinema fans like this writer who grew up on a diet of Tamil movies were deeply saddened when veteran South Indian actress B. Saroja Devi passed away some days ago on 14. ..

Question: How can the true ownership of shares and loans taken out by S Alam under proxy or false names be proven in court? Answer: True, in many cases, the documents don't bear the real name. But ...

This article is authored by Rishi Gupta, assistant director, International Security, Asia Society Policy Institute, New Delhi.