Sri Lanka’s estimated poverty (share of the population living on less than $3.65 a day) remains stubbornly high, affecting as ...

Despite recent claims by some researchers suggesting that Sri Lanka’s population is entering a phase of long-term decline—due ...

Sri Lanka has recorded a sharp rise in fatal road accidents in the first half of 2025, with police statistics showing 1,274 ...

Sri Lanka's main Tamil party, ITAK, has called on the government to expedite the investigation of a suspected mass grave at ...

Every nation, in every region of the world, has to take a decision: either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”– ...

Returning to Sri Lanka after 17 years in June 2025, I was struck by how much has changed – and by one reality that must not ...

When the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) arrived in Sri Lanka on July 30, 1987, New Delhi did not expect to be embroiled in a bloody conflict with the ...

In a year marked by both progress and disparity, the global renewable energy sector witnessed a record-breaking addition of ...

The government ban comes into force tomorrow. Children under 16 are banned from begging, street trading and domestic work, ...

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

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is warning that debt is the main factor of vulnerability in the population. The causes include the 2022 economic crisis, rising inflation, unemployment, ...

The gruesome discovery is further evidence of the atrocities committed during the brutal communal war, unleashed by ...