Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Shobini Gunasekera recently presented a conceptual framework of seven key vectors that defined contemporary international relations and facilitated ...

Sri Lanka on Friday (December 26, 2025) commemorated the 21st anniversary of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, which killed over 35,000 people in the island nation. The national ceremony ...

Sri Lanka, Dec. 23 -- The Ministry of Education has announced the revised schedule for the conclusion of the 2025 academic year and the start of the 2026 academic year for government and ...

Sources: Data provided by the Sri Lankan authorities; and IMF staff estimates. 1/ Colombo CPI. 2/ Cash basis, excluding accrued but not paid interest. 3/ Comprising central government debt, publicly ...

Tourist arrivals reached 2.17 million by December 11, pushing Sri Lanka past last year’s total. The bigger goal, though, was to edge closer to the 2018 peak of 2.3 million, and much will depend on how ...

Washington, DC: Mr. Evan Papageorgiou, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief for Sri Lanka issued the following statement today: "In the wake of the devastating impact and widespread ...

Torrential downpours and high winds struck large parts of the island nation as Cyclone Ditwah churned northwest toward India. By Pamodi Waravita and Mujib Mashal Pamodi Waravita reported from Colombo, ...

The next 12 to 18 months, when the political and social costs of broader taxation and administrative centralization will become most visible, are crucial. The NPP took a cautious approach in its first ...

The Examiner is reversing the decline of Sri Lanka's print media. We're the island’s first subscription-based digital newspaper, publishing weekly on anything and everything to do with Sri Lanka. Our ...

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya told parliament on October 24 that her government has formally informed the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) ...

The GHMC authorities locked the Sri Chaitanya School building as the building lacked adequate parking space and as it had no cellar. Since the SA-1 examinations for all the classes have commenced on ...

A newly released study by Seafarers' Rights International (SRI) finds that cabotage laws now exist on 85% of the world’s coastlines, are growing in number at an unprecedented pace, and are ...