A Wikileaks cable shows that the discussion between Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Government of Sri Lanka begun as early as 2006. Although the...
Image: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, in southern Sri Lanka, is called "the world's emptiest airport." It has four scheduled flights per week. (Photo by...
Speaking to Colombo based Daily Mirror former chairperson of the police commission Professor Siri Hettige says that " We have run out of viable political...
(Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena (R) looks on next to Ravi Karunanayake Minister of Finance during the 'Sri Lanka Business Forum', in Colombo, Sri...
Gauri Bhatia | Special to CNBC.
Situated almost in the middle of the Indian Ocean, there is no escaping Sri Lanka's centrality.
The country lies just...
Indian High Commissioner Y.K. Sinha (left) said he was “surprised” to come across criticism of ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa (right) as it
was the latter’s government...
By Mangala Samaraweera.
'Reconciliation and Development', as you would agree, are intertwined. It is difficult, almost impossible, to have one without the other.
At the time...
The Systematic Country Diagnostic is a comprehensive assessment of constraints and drivers of progress towards the twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared...
( President meeting IDPs in Jaffna)
President Maithripala Sirisena Sunday (20) assured the displaced people in the North languishing in the welfare camps that they...
(Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his wife Maithree met Japan's Emperor and Empress during an official visit. )
Sri Lanka wants Japan to...
Nimal SanderathneGood governance is good for the nation and people. Irrespective of any economic consequences of the Geneva resolutions, the country must ensure law...
Sindhu Bhattacharya This could become the second instance, after the eviction of GMR Infrastructure from Maldives, where Indian companies suffer high handedness of India’s...
By Kelum BandaraMinutes after day’s business started in Parliament on Thursday, Senior Minister D.E.W. Gunasekara rushed to his seat in the chamber of the...
An UNDP Human Development report said yesterday the country secured first place in terms of Human Development among SAARC countries. According to the report,...
Sri Lanka's central bank has sterilized a foreign exchange sale injecting 8.0 billion rupees in one-month money into the banking system, ending several weeks...
Construction on the newly repaired A9 road by JAMES MORGANDr. Harsha De SilvaThe very recent fiscal and government borrowing numbers released by the Central...
ForbesWith the rapid-fire opening of Burma/Myanmar stemming from apparently real reforms under new President Thein Sein, an intriguing regional competition may develop. ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
