Sri Lanka's new left-wing JVP government seems to have shedded its Marxist roots and embraced pragmatic pro-business policies ...

Dissanayake’s statement, made during his maiden Budget speech in Parliament, is Sri Lanka’s first official reaction to the company’s decision, conveyed to Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment in a letter ...

TV news ran a mobile phone video recorded in Matale of an emissary of the JVP-NPP government visiting a household and communicating a cautioning from his party to a young man in a house in shabby ...

No sooner had the police made the announcement than an old video clip of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake went viral. He ...

The dramatic killing of Ganemulla Sanjeewa inside a magistrate’s court bares police shortcomings in addressing security concerns amid soaring gun violence; Govt.’s well-meanin ...

Sri Lanka owes US$2.18bil to the China Development Bank ... but ISB repayments are due to start in September. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has doubled taxes, removed generous energy subsidies ...

In a dramatic turn of events, Indian tycoon Gautam Adani’s Green Energy Limited (AGEL) has withdrawn from the second phase of ...

President Trump has unceremoniously overturned US foreign policy. His decision to deport illegal Indian migrants just ahead of a summit with Premier Narendra Modi, underscored the tough stance taken ...

Killing or harming elephants is a criminal offence in Sri Lanka, which has an estimated 7,000 wild elephants, with the animals considered a national treasure, partly due to their significance in ...

Sri Lanka’s main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary on Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world’s first care home for destitute ...

Last year, under then-president Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka received capital grace periods on bilateral loan payments until 2028. Dissanayake also said a budget deficit of 6.7 per cent of the ...

When I am formulated, sprawling on a pin” (from T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock’ first published 1915) ...