Days after Sri Lanka witnessed 19 incidents within 48 hours involving explosions in the cooking gas cylinders, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered a probe into the matter as fear gripped the public of possible defects in the cylinders

In what comes as a major policy reversal on the farm front, much like what happened in neighboring India, Sri Lanka has allowed its private sector to import chemical fertilizers, months after the government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had put a blanket ban on the use and import of the same

Sri Lankan agencies on Monday pressed charges against the country’s former police chief Pujith Jayasundara for failing to act on intelligence warnings, resulting in the one of the most horrifying terror attacks in the country that have come to be known as the Easter bombings

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has announced that every major city would have its own wastewater management system in the future

Sri Lanka has been working on a plan that would soon incentive overseas workers to send remittances through formal channels in a move that the government expects would boost its forex

The death toll from heavy rains lashing Sri Lanka rose to 11, while 7,000 people have been affected, the Disaster Management Center said on Tuesday

Public health experts in Sri Lanka have warned of another wave of Covid-19 amid the possibilities of the spread of A.30, a new coronavirus variant, known to evade both Covid-19 vaccines, just over a month after the country came out of the lockdown

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a controversial hardliner Buddhist monk to head his 13 member- Presidential Task Force to oversee legal reforms and the possibility of implementation of the One Country-One Rule system

On 21 April 2019, Sri Lanka faced one of its worst terror attacks in decades

Sri Lanka has ruled out talking to banned diaspora organisations weeks after the country’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced that his government would engage with Tamil diaspora groups that have been critical of Rajapaksa’s government and its treatment of minority Tamils

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered cutting down on all state expenses including unnecessary fleets of vehicles being used by ministries as the government grapples with a worsening economic crisis in the country

The gross official reserves in Sri Lanka dropped to around $2.5 billion in September 2021-- a decline of almost 28 percent in comparison to August when it was around $3.5 billion, official data showed, amid continued liquidity injections

The Sri Lankan government has indicated holding provincial councils’ elections--which has been on hold for more than three years now-- early in 2022 after amending a law to change the system to the earlier Proportional Representation electoral system, The Hindu reported

A delegation of the European Union (EU), which was on a visit to Sri Lanka,  reviewed the island nation’s efforts in reforming its notorious terror laws, reconciliation process, and the process of fixing accountability among other issues

The European Union (EU) should not withdraw its Generalized Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status of Sri Lanka, Sajith Premadasa, Sri Lanka’s opposition leader has said to a visiting EU delegation, terming the GSP+ status a “great strength” to the island’s economy