The Pathfinder Foundation’s proposal to establish a fisheries research institute on Kachchativu is presented as an exercise in scientific cooperation, but its critics may see a far more troubling prospect. The financial
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
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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,
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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
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China ended 2025 with a historic trade surplus of $1.189 trillion, a figure that places the world’s largest manufacturing nation in a category usually reserved for the output of major economies. The
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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
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Read Part One of this series The correct title for the proposed bill mentioned in the first part of this article should be “Protection of the State from Terrorism Act – PSTA,”
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A single mistake that was in a Grade 6 English textbook has ignited a huge firestorm in Sri Lanka. What should have been a straightforward quality control issue has instead become a
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Sri Lanka and China are set to finalize an agreement on the Hambantota Sinopec Oil Refinery Project in the first quarter of 2026, officials confirmed following a meeting between Sri Lankan Foreign
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Corruption has eaten into the vitals of Sri Lanka’s power and energy sectors to such an extent that one wonders whether ‘C’ in the initialisms of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and
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Sri Lanka’s energy sector has been thrust into renewed turmoil after detailed laboratory test results from the Lakvijaya Coal Power Plant revealed that recently imported coal fails to meet multiple technical standards
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Erik Solheim needs no introduction. He was in Sri Lanka during the most pivotal time of the country’s political transition, and he became involved in the affairs of Sri Lanka purely by
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During the 2024 presidential election, after Thalatha Athukorala withdrew from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, popular actress and SLPP parliamentarian Geetha Kumarasinghe appeared on Sajith’s stage in Kandy. Within 24 hours of Geetha
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A growing dispute over the appointment of Sri Lanka’s Auditor General (AG) has intensified tensions between the government and opposition, raising concerns about the functioning of key oversight institutions and the country’s
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Sri Lanka’s financial regulators have launched a detailed inquiry into an unusual incident at the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) on January 7, which saw a newly listed company’s shares surge to Rs.
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by Durga Velayudham This is not a trivial misstep. It is a criminal irresponsibility to toy with children and their futures. These political games are played at the expense of the poor.
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