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 ...

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.

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

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

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.

In a move that has sent shockwaves through the global economy, U.S. President Donald Trump last week announced a sweeping 30 ...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that efforts are underway to position Sri Lanka as the regional hub for human capital development. He stressed the need to re-evaluate the National Vocational ...

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 ...