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
Smriti Irani is not only a popular figure in India but also well known in Sri Lanka. She became popular in Sri Lanka through the character “Tulsi” in the teledrama Mahagedara. From
More
They starch their spines with borrowed daylight and call it dignity,tongues varnished, knees rehearsed for velvet floors.Gravitas for hire, they auction grief in clipped syllables,while famine learns their signatures by heart.The microphone
More
Sri Lanka’s National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) received a total of 107,663 complaints of child abuse between 2014 and April 30, 2025, but 43% of these allegations were not investigated, according to
More
Sri Lanka’s state-owned power utility, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), has been flagged for serious financial irregularities after the Auditor General’s annual report revealed the board paid Rs. 1,060.02 million (Sri Lankan
More
Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ordered the Cabinet of Ministers and the Disaster Management Committee to appear before it on July 15 to answer allegations that the government failed to take necessary
More
Sri Lanka has embarked on an ambitious effort to address the long-standing housing crisis among families displaced by decades of civil conflict, with the launch of the National Housing Program 2026. President
More Sri Lanka is facing a critical juncture in its electricity sector, with industry bodies raising serious concerns over the Draft National Electricity Policy. In a joint submission, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce,
More
Sri Lanka is grappling with a fresh controversy in its energy sector after former Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka revealed that two laboratory tests at the Norochcholai Lakvijaya Power
More
The protester, who descended after two hours on Thursday, told reporters that he had been unfairly detained and beaten by police. “My jaw hurts all over. I can’t eat or chew due
More
Sri Lankan authorities on Thursday extradited two alleged organized criminals and a woman from Dubai as part of an ongoing investigation into money laundering and other serious crimes. The suspects arrived at
More
Two senior Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have reportedly begun a hunger strike in prison following their arrest over the installation of a Buddha statue in Trincomalee, authorities and sources close to
More
Drug addiction in Kandy, a major district in Sri Lanka’s Central Province, has risen dramatically in 2025, with authorities reporting a fivefold increase in usage compared to the previous year. Senior Deputy
More
A 25-year-old computer engineer from Kandarmadam, Jaffna, has been arrested by Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for allegedly posting nude images of her ex-boyfriend on social media, authorities confirmed. The case
More
Sri Lanka’s Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is witnessing an unprecedented political debate over the possible parliamentary entry of General Secretary Tilvin Silva, a move that would break a tradition dating back to
More
The United Nations Human Rights Office has issued one of its starkest warnings yet on Sri Lanka, concluding that conflict-related sexual violence remains endemic, systematically unaddressed, and buried beneath what it describes
More