Sri Lanka’s economy grew by 5 per cent in 2025 as the country continued its recovery from the 2022 economic crisis, but its investment climate remains challenging, with foreign investors reporting policy
A widely circulated social media post compares two contrasting images: one depicting Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath engaging with the Sri Lankan diaspora in Rome during his attendance at the Pope’s funeral, and
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NDB Bank is proud to reaffirm its commitment to nurturing home-grown inventions and innovations by partnering with the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC) for the fifth International Inventions and Innovations Exhibition and
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Editorial The plaintive bleats of Sri Lanka’s opposition parties, predicting the imminent collapse of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government, ring more of desperate fantasy than grounded political calculus. The notion that this
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In the last presidential election, the Cardinal and the Church were faced with three potential candidates: Ranil, Sajith, and Anura. Of the three, Ranil’s father hailed from a Christian family, and his
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by A Special Correspondent in Colombo The recent Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) signed by Sri Lanka with India and the United Arab Emirates are nothing short of a carefully camouflaged handover of
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Today (April 26) is World Tai Chi Day. Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese martial art that embodies the essence of China’s long-standing civilization. It reflects the traditional Chinese philosophical concepts of
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Sri Lanka is a stunning island located in the Indian Ocean, strategically positioned in a crucial geopolitical area that provides access to key logistics hubs, valuable natural resources, and important maritime routes.
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by A Special Correspondent Introduction: The Spirit of Kalama Sutta The Kalama Sutta, one of the most rational and investigative discourses attributed to the Buddha, begins with a powerful exhortation: “Do not
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This article was originally published in the Daily Mirror, a Colombo-based daily newspaper. We are republishing it, as it offers crucial insight into the events that led to—and followed—the Easter Sunday attacks
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by Durga Velayutham In post-war Sri Lanka, few periods have been as morally disorienting and civically corrosive as the one we currently inhabit. A festering malaise has taken root, not merely within
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by Our Political Affairs Editor April 23 stands as a solemn commemoration of the death of Lalith Athulathmudali, a towering luminary in Sri Lankan political history. His life, cruelly truncated by assassination,
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Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is far from over, as the nation’s public debt has now skyrocketed to a staggering USD 106 billion, according to Professor Wasantha Athukorala, Director of the Postgraduate Institute
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In an address during the sixth anniversary memorial of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith warned of a “deep state” embedded within Sri Lanka’s state machinery, working against the interests
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by Durga Velayutham A little-known Catholic priest appeared on national media recently, proposing a theory so unsettling it jolted the nation out of its lethargic acceptance of sanitised narratives: that a prominent
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12 January 1960 marked a historic moment for the Colombo Municipal Council, as M.H. Mohamed (Mohamed Hanifa Mohamed) became the first Muslim to be elected mayor in its history. The Colombo Municipal
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