In 2024, after Anura Kumara Dissanayake became President, the Russian Ambassador met with him and delivered a special message from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The message included an invitation to attend the
Sri Lanka’s energy sector is now mired in a scandal so blatant that it has stripped away any remaining pretence of clean governance. The importation and continued use of substandard coal at
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Sri Lanka’s tourism sector has begun 2026 with a troubling contradiction, as rising visitor numbers have failed to translate into higher revenues. According to the latest data released by the Central Bank
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Sri Lanka’s official reserve assets recorded a slight decline in January 2026, reflecting ongoing pressures on the country’s external buffers even as the Central Bank strengthened its gold holdings. According to the
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Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption landscape has come under renewed scrutiny following the release of the 2025 Progress Report of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption, revealing widespread procedural failures across
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I read a news article today stating that the Special Task Force of the Sri Lanka Police, with the assistance of Military Intelligence, recovered three well-preserved and buried 84 mm Carl Gustaf
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A local government body in northern Sri Lanka has unanimously approved a proposal to fully renovate the former home of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the late leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,
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More than two months after the “Ditwa” cyclone swept through Sri Lanka, a tragedy in the hill country village of Nawaneliya in Galaha, Deltota has exposed what residents describe as a grave
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More than four years after the MV X-Press Pearl caught fire and sank off Sri Lanka’s western coast, the country is still struggling to turn a historic court ruling into tangible compensation.
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Sri Lanka’s long-term coal supply agreement with Trident Chemphar Ltd. will remain in force after the third shipment of coal reportedly cleared required quality standards, easing immediate concerns over supply disruptions, according
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The first Marxist coalition government in Sri Lanka was formed by the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). The Finance Minister of this government was LSSP
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From the moment a visitor stands at the foot of Sigiriya and looks up at its mist-veiled summit, a strange quiet seems to press down on the landscape. The sheer granite monolith,
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Senior Buddhist monk Ven. Muruththettuwe Ananda Thera has announced plans to launch a large-scale protest campaign involving around 800 monks in response to what he described as statements and insults made by
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Sri Lanka is taking steps to seek compensation from countries that once occupied the island for antiquities looted and for the lives and property lost during the colonial period, Foreign Affairs Minister
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Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe has said the country’s key economic objective is to maintain inflation without allowing it to rise above 5 percent, as the island nation seeks
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An estimated one in seven people may be living with a mental illness, according to World Health Organization assessments, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health Dr. Dhammika Alahapperuma said yesterday
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