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
by Our Correspondent in Colombo Journalists at a leading English-language daily in Sri Lanka have reportedly threatened industrial action after two months of unpaid allowances and the non-payment of February salaries, deepening
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National Freedom Front leader and Member of Parliament Wimal Weerawansa alleged that the country’s current Justice Minister previously acted as legal counsel for Zahran Hashim, widely identified as the mastermind behind the
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In the latest escalation of the crisis in the Middle East, Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz. According to Science Direct, Sri Lanka imports nearly all of its oil and gas,
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Speaking at the outset of his address to Parliament yesterday, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake of Sri Lanka laid out in stark terms what he described as the country’s most pressing structural weakness
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Retired Major General Tuan Suresh Sallay, former head of the State Intelligence Service during the Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime, was arrested on February 25, 2026, by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and is
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor The Military Intelligence Corps of Sri Lanka or Directorate of Military Intelligence, historically one of the most critical pillars of national security, finds itself at an unprecedented
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Sri Lanka’s vital tea export industry has been thrown into uncertainty as escalating military tensions in the Middle East disrupt key shipping lanes across the Mediterranean and Gulf seas. The government warns
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In July 1987, as South Asia watched a brutal ethnic conflict spiral in northern Sri Lanka, an agreement signed between Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayewardene and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
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In the charged political climate of Sri Lanka’s 1965 general election, few could have imagined that a spontaneous sound uttered in a courtroom would become part of the island’s political folklore. Yet
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An audit has found that Sri Lanka’s Department of Agrarian Development spent nearly 90 million rupees to construct crop storage facilities intended to support small and medium-scale farmers, yet many of the
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Businessmen operating fuel stations under the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) are reporting severe financial distress following the corporation’s decision to cut the 3 percent commission that has been paid to station operators
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Addressing social media activists at his political office in Colombo, former President Ranil Wickremesinghe clarified that Sri Lanka will not face a fuel crisis despite not receiving oil from Iran. He emphasized
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In Sri Lanka, the distance between the protest stage and the government stage is very short. Sometimes it is so short that the same people appear in both scenes — only the
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Sri Lanka is facing a renewed dengue concern with 13,416 cases reported so far this year, according to the National Dengue Control Unit. Health officials say the steady rise in infections signals
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A recent statement by Cardinal Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has stirred both reflection and raised eyebrows. Addressing a ceremony at St. Joseph’s Church, Nillanduwa, yesterday, the Archbishop of Colombo urged Catholics not to
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