Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin was the guest of honour at Sri Lanka’s 76th independence day celebrations on Sunday, as the island nation struggles to emerge from its worst economic crisis.

But asked whether the prime minister's statement was an indication that the army ... Can Sri Lanka's acting president restore order? Why is Sri Lanka in crisis? How Sri Lanka's dramatic day ...

Here is why the upcoming parliamentary election is so significant for newly-elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

They had not approved of her marriage, given that he was just a fisherman from the coastal town of Mannar, while her family has lived in Jaffna, the capital of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province ...

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The decline of democracy in Nazi Germany, of course, has been deeply studied. But have there been nations heading in that ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

Minister of state for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar is in Colombo to attend the 75th Independence Day of Sri Lanka as a guest of honour. During her two-day official visit, Hina Rabbani Khar will ...

must undoubtedly be… he is steadfast in his convictions that the large-scale adoption of solar energy is the only way to achieve a Sri Lanka free from its dependence on fossil fuels. Currently, an ...