According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 998,918 people across all 25 districts of Sri Lanka have been affected by the severe flooding and landslides triggered ...

Sri Lanka grapples with its worst disaster in decades as Cyclone Ditwah triggers devastating landslides and floods. Over 600 ...

In the aftermath of flooding and landslides that have severely affected parts of the country, tourism is more important than ...

Amid mounting protests from locals and environmentalists, Sri Lanka’s president has suspended a proposed wind farm in Mannar, in the island’s north for a month, pending a review of ecological concerns ...

In a candid conversation with Newsweek in the stately bilateral meeting room at the President’s Secretariat in Colombo, ...

Jetstar today announced it will launch Australia's first low-cost direct flights to Colombo in Sri Lanka, with one-way fares ...

(Geneva) – Sri Lankan security forces still harass families of victims of forced disappearances and misuse the country’s draconian counterterrorism law a year since President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

In 2024, the Sri Lankan government revoked the protected status of an ecologically important mangrove forest in Vidattaltivu, in the island’s north, to facilitate the development of an aquaculture ...

Sri Lanka’s tax policies played a driving role in the country’s devastating 2022 economic crisis and contribute to chronic underfunding of education and other public services. The government should ...

Sri Lanka's foreign reserves dropped to 6,083 million US dollars by end November 2025, lower by 133 million dollars from a ...

Sri Lanka's lending and deposit interest rates have edged up in October, amid strong loan demand as banks scrambled to raise ...