Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal has rejected a series of applications, including one filed by Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, seeking permission to intervene in a writ petition brought by former State Intelligence Service
Foreign direct investment into Sri Lanka reached 1.044 billion dollars in 2025, according to the just-issued World Investment Report 2026 by UNCTAD, the UN’s leading body on trade and development. The figure
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This is the second and final part of this interview, the first part of which was published in yesterday’s edition. Seventeen years after the military defeat of the LTTE, Frerks sees Sri
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Editorial Negombo Prison is not merely the scene of another prison riot. It is the scene of a state failure. Twenty-six people are now reported dead. More than hundred have been injured.
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo At least 26 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after two consecutive days of violence at Negombo Prison in western Sri Lanka, where renewed
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The 6th Pakistan–Sri Lanka Armed Forces Defence Dialogue concluded successfully on 03 July at the Navy Headquarters within the Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayawardanepura, Kotte, according to officials involved in the
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Dual-use naval facilities are commercial ports, shipyards, or maritime hubs operationally designed and equipped to support military operations when required though they operate primarily for civilian trade in peacetime. The issue at
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Digital Transformation in Sri Lankan Education: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the educational fabric of Sri Lanka marks a pivotal transformation in the nation’s quest for economic and academic modernization.
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Editorial Today is our Poson Poya Day. The day we are asked to believe that we got Buddhism, even though, according to our own historical tales, we are asked at the same
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Sri Lanka is sitting on the fourth rarest gemstone on earth, and instead of turning that into national leverage, it is letting individual traders smuggle it out through informal channels because the
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Sri Lanka just lost 2.5 million dollars to a hacker, and the two institutions responsible for guarding the country’s money are spending more energy dodging blame than explaining how it happened. That
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During a discussion held last February by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on American foreign policy toward South Asia, Committee Chairman Bill Huizenga highlighted how critical Sri Lanka and the Maldives
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The events unfolding are murky — it is unclear which direction the nation is heading. Since the introduction of provincial governance and the office of governor, Sri Lanka has not previously witnessed
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The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has re-elected Krishan Balendra as Chairperson for the 2026/27 year, reinforcing the organisation’s continued focus on a more solutions-oriented role in Sri Lanka’s economic development landscape. The
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor As Israel faces a rapidly changing security landscape in the Middle East, Israeli Ambassador to India Reuven Azar, who is concurrently accredited as the non-resident Ambassador to
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An Israeli authority familiar with the matter has said investigations into the suspension of millions of dollars in remittances belonging to Sri Lankan workers in Israel are ongoing and expressed confidence that
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