BOHITIYAWA, Sri Lanka — Getting online school lessons for residents of a remote Sri Lankan village requires a trek through dense bushes sometimes visited by leopards and elephants. The teachers and ...

A public spectacle was created at the Mrs. Sri Lanka 2021 pageant last evening when the winner Pushpika De Silva was stripped off her crown by reigning Mrs. World Caroline Jurie who claimed Pushpika ...

COLOMBO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Workers' remittances, a major source of foreign exchange in Sri Lanka, dropped to a 10-year low at $5.49 billion in 2021, central bank data showed on Friday, as the country ...

The problem isn’t the availability of food items or essential goods, but skyrocketing prices of essentials due to stockpiling. For weeks headlines have hit news platforms around the world that Sri ...

Sri Lanka ends 2021 with foreign currency reserves in hand (US$1.6 billion) to support a month of imports. For much of the year, a shortage of dollars saw uncleared essential imports piling up at the ...

It wasn’t exactly the crowning she was looking for. A beauty queen contestant won the title of Mrs. Sri Lanka over the weekend — only to end up in the hospital with head wounds after Mrs. World ripped ...

(New York) – Sri Lanka’s government should immediately withdraw an order that allows two-years of detention without trial for causing “religious, racial, or communal disharmony,” Human Rights Watch ...

A container ship carrying chemicals caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka last week. Singapore-flagged MV X-Press Pearl was waiting to enter a port when it caught fire. All of the ship's crew members ...

1. Human Rights Watch submits the following information regarding Sri Lanka’s implementation of recommendations accepted through its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2017, and information ...

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