Sri Lanka on Saturday formally urged the US House Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) not to proceed with a resolution that called for a political solution in the island nation dismissing it as “inaccurate, biased and unsubstantiated”

An environmental rights group and fishermen’s activists have petitioned the Sri Lankan Supreme Court against the government and the operators of the MV X-Press Pearl, over the environmental damage caused by the ship’s fire

Sri Lanka has now been turned into “a land of auction”, Sajith Premadasa, the opposition leader of the island nation, alleged that the ruling party is selling national resources to foreigners and destroying the country’s heritage

The Sri Lankan government has dubbed a resolution presented in the US House of Representatives calling for a political solution in Sri Lanka  as one influenced by the LTTE sympathizers in the US to carry forward the separatist agenda

Misinformation related to Chinese Sinopharm vaccines in Sri Lanka has severely impacted the vaccine rollout in the country, a top Sri Lankan official has admitted

Even if Sri Lanka gets $100 billion as compensation the amount can’t compensate the environmental damage, Sri Lankan Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said on the incident of fire on MV-X pearl ship

MV-X Pearl Press, the Singapore flagged container ship that caught fire two weeks ago in Sri Lankan waters, is now sinking, the Sri Lankan Navy said in a statement on Wednesday. The ship still contains oil containers; however, there is no report of the oil spill so far

Sri Lanka has decided to fix transponders in 4,200 multi-day ocean-going boats which will help them to track them through a vessel monitoring system

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapksa has ordered his officials to get 600,000 Astra-Zeneca vaccines at any cost for the people who had already received their first dose and are now waiting for a second jab

A Sri Lankan lawmaker belonging to an opposition party has alleged that the Rajapaksa government is planning to sell another 200 acres of prime land to foreigners, adding that it has already been passed by the cabinet

The Sri Lankan government has decided to keep away from expensive foreign loan-funded schemes in the future to avoid the external debt trap, but was bullish on the China-backed Colombo Port City project which, an official said, could rope in huge foreign direct investment

Amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, nurses in Sri Lanka have decided to go on a two-day strike from today, a move that could seriously affect the country’s COVID-19 response

Former Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has called for special legislation to control the COVID 19 pandemic, suggesting opposition leaders should also be consulted by the government on the draft

The fire on the MV-X Press Pearl ship off the Sri Lankan coast, which raged for days, has affected scores of daily fishermen on Sri Lanka’s Uswetakeiyawa coast

The Future Policy Award 2021 organized by the World Future Council has nominated two Sri Lankan policies this year for the award: the control of pesticides and prevention of suicides