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With regulatory approvals pending in India and other neighbouring countries, the satellite internet service rolls out in Sri Lanka, its third South Asian market after Bhutan and Bangladesh.
Starlink has launched its internet service in Sri Lanka, the company chief Elon Musk confirmed on Wednesday. "Starlink now available in Sri Lanka!," Musk said on X. Sri Lanka has become the second ...
An informed source said that the FAO committed the ship to do survey for Madagascar instead of Sri Lanka because of the delay in granting permission.
British woman held in Sri Lanka ‘could be months’ from bail hearing, lawyer warns Charlotte May Lee is ‘coping’ with prospect of spending months longer in jail in Sri Lanka, her lawyer ...
Health authorities say that Sri Lanka has entered a critical period of overlapping viral outbreaks following the detection of new COVID subvariants. They yesterday confirmed the presence of two new ...
Sri Lanka is currently grappling with a major outbreak of the Chikungunya viral disease, marking the most significant resurgence of the virus in the country in nearly 20 years, according to ...
‘Need answers’: Will Sri Lanka’s Tamils find war closure under Dissanayake? Tamils commemorating the loved ones they lost, or who were ‘disappeared’, during the civil war that ended 16 ...
Sri Lanka’s recently elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s political coalition, the National People’s Power (NPP), won an overwhelming amount of support from the majority Sinhalese community as ...
Frank Mugisha and Rosanna Flamer-Caldera are LGBTQ+ activists from Uganda and Sri Lanka respectively. Despite violence and social reprisal, they continue to fight against their countries' anti-LGBTQ+ ...
March 25, 2025 This March marks the mid-point of Sri Lanka’s four-year economic reform program supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the two years since its inception difficult but ...
‘No more silence’: Israelis face Gaza war backlash on Sri Lanka’s beaches For years, relations between residents and Israeli visitors had been cordial as the influx contributed to economy ...
As Sri Lanka emerges from its worst economic crisis, the new government faces the challenge of balancing recovery with sustainable growth.