From controlling the pandemic to stopping hoarding of food and essentials, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapksa’s fascination for using the country’s armed forces in every crisis is no secret

A section of Tamil groups has reacted sharply over the government’s participation in the Jaffna Kite Festival in the northern city of Jaffna, once the stronghold of Tamil secessionist militant leader Velupillai Prabhakaran

Sri Lanka plans to increase forest cover from currently 29.3 percent to 30 percent by 2025 by cultivating rubber plants over an area of 500 hectares

Tourists from India dominated Sri Lanka’s tourism market last year, contributing almost 23 percent of the total 194,000 tourists who visited the island country in 2021

In a deal with considerable strategic significance for South Asian geopolitics, Sri Lanka will extend the lease of 14 oil tanks in Trincomalee oil farms to India for 50 years, Lankan Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said on Friday, adding the deal, which will also include the joint development of 61 other unused tanks, will be signed next week

Sri Lanka’s foreign reserve exchange reached $3.1 billion dollars in December, up from $1.5 billion recorded last month, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka informed on Wednesday

Sri Lanka will temporarily close down three of its missions in Nigeria, Germany and Cyprus in what seems a desperate bid by the government to save its fast-declining foreign currency reserves amid a severe economic crisis

Sri Lanka is heading for an imminent food shortage, warned Uditha K Jayasinghe, who was the country’s agriculture secretary until Thursday and was removed only after he issued a dire — and blunt -  warning

The European Union (EU) should work with its international partners to press the Sri Lankan government for its rights obligations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, warning that respect for human rights in the country has been “declining alarmingly under President Rajapaksa.”

A Sri Lankan fishing vessel was damaged after it collided with an Indian fishing vessel, which Sri Lankan Navy alleged was illegally venturing into  Sri Lankan territorial water on Wednesday night

Religious extremism and terrorism pose a threat to the region, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said, adding "coordinated efforts" are needed to tackle these challenges

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he was deeply concerned by the lynching of a Sri Lankan man in Pakistan but expressed faith in Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s commitment to "ensure justice" in the case

Sri Lanka on Friday reported a massive nationwide power outage as its entire grid was down, media reports said, making it yet another crisis for the country which has already been going through multiple problems currently

Sri Lanka will continue to retain personal laws for different communities, Foreign Minister G L Peiris has said after meeting with the envoys from Islamic countries, in a move that contradicts the government’s stated policy of enacting a unified personal code

Sri Lanka is in talks with US billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX over its satellite internet division Starlink, the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) announced