As reported earlier today, the United States has pledged $17 million to modernise digital operations at the Port of Colombo. In a subsequent statement, US Ambassador Eric Meyer outlined the commercial rationale
US Ambassador Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, has urged Sri Lankan authorities to ensure the safety of the country’s Jewish community following reports of demonstrations targeting
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The Army also used mines extensively against the LTTE, particularly through deep-penetration units operating behind enemy lines. Such operations weakened the Tigers’ hold and became so formidable that the Norway-brokered 2002 Ceasefire
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A special discussion on plans to introduce a passenger drone service in Sri Lanka was held at the premises of the Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation
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Sri Lanka could face what former president Ranil Wickremesinghe described as one of the country’s most severe economic battles if it fails to increase its foreign reserves to US$15 billion within the
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Ven. Rambukana Siddhartha Thera, one of Sri Lanka’s best-known Buddhist lyricists and authors, died on Tuesday at the age of 76 while receiving treatment at Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital, bringing to an end
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Editorial This is not new. This is precisely how the hunger for power works. Mahinda Rajapaksa tried it through the infamous 18th Amendment; Anura Kumara Dissanayake is now attempting something different in
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It is doubtful whether the discerning public expected anything worthwhile to come of Wednesday’s meeting between President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and a delegation from the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL). There
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Start with what he said, because he said it first, before anyone made him. His counsel stood in the Court of Appeal and told the bench that some people ask why the
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More than 4,300 police officers have left the Sri Lanka Police service over a period of nearly seven years, according to figures released by Police Headquarters, as the department continues efforts to
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‘Mr Speaker, all case reports dismissed by ‘Hulftsdorp’ fall under the jurisdiction of Sucharitha. While I am not a lawyer, reviewing those dismissed case files has taught me a great deal about
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The report states that 573 homicides were recorded in 2023, followed by 555 in 2024 and 536 in 2025. Taken together, the figures show a decline in the annual number of homicides
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Nearly 10 per cent of bus drivers, conductors and assistants tested by Sri Lanka’s National Transport Medical Institute have been identified as using drugs, according to findings from an expanding screening programme
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Once again, the spectre of the hangman has returned to Sri Lanka’s policy discourse. At the “Ratama Ekata” National Operations Council convened at the Presidential Secretariat on 10 August 2026, the imposition
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The Bar Association of Sri Lanka has asked the government to provide the complete and unedited video recording of a meeting held between President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and representatives of the association
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC Sri Lanka has been named alongside Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos and the Philippines as a Southeast Asian “microhub” within what a US report describes as China’s global
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