Following the 1935 soil chemistry findings of the Thopawewa and Parakarama Samudra Development Scheme, Brohier warned that the dry-zone soil structure is not entirely suited to carry out large-scale ...

Just two years after the April-July 2022 popular uprising in Sri Lanka, neighbouring Bangladesh has been convulsed by mass protests during July-August 2024, sending shock waves through the ruling ...

Since the downfall of Sri Lanka’s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in mid-July, some commentators have blamed the economic crisis and social unrest that precipitated his departure on his nominal ...

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland on November 1, 2021. A small country in South Asia with half ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the island-wide eruption of social unrest in Sri Lanka, popularly known as the Hartal. We are republishing here an article posted on September 2, 2020 on the ...

A man plays the piano at the prime minister's official residence on the second day after it was it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 11, 2022. [Reuters] Weeks ago, in my inner circle of ...

A recent Daily Mirror editorial on Sri Lanka mentions that since independence, the country had implemented a number of welfare measures such as, "subsidizing costs of food and fuel." It adds that ...

About 20 years of “policy detour” that pushed the economy from bad to worse, turned the country’s fortune to a misfortune and ...

Global financial markets were recently shaken by an extraordinary episode of volatility when gold and silver prices collapsed ...