Colombo, Sri Lanka’s controversial Prevention of Organised Crimes Bill has faced 20 petitions in the Supreme Court challenging its constitutionality, Deputy Speaker Rizvi Salih told Parliament on Tuesday. Sri Lanka’s organised crime bill faces 20 petitions in Supreme Court Salih said the Speaker had received copies of the petitions filed under Article 121 of the … Read more
File photo: Prison officers escort Shiranthi Rajapaksa, the wife of Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, to a prison vehicle outside a magistrate’s court in Colombo Sri Lanka’s former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa, the wife of former president Mahinda Rajapaksahas been arrested over allegations of misusing LKR 10 million (approx 29.3 lakhs) linked to a … Read more
Colombo, Sri Lanka’s economy has proved remarkably resilient to successive shocks, with economic activity expanding 4.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2026, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. Sri Lanka economy resilient to shocks: IMF The growth marked the 11th consecutive quarter of strong economic expansion, the IMF said in a statement … Read more
Sai Sri Valli Mogilineedi, 8th Grade, Mountain View Middle School, Mechanicsburg, PA (Source: Society for Science) An eighth-grader from Pennsylvania has been named one of the top 30 middle school researchers in the United States after developing a new way to deliver medicines used to treat Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). Sai Sri Valli Mogilineedi, a … Read more
Colombo, Namal Rajapaksa, the elder son of Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was arrested by the island nation’s anti-graft commission over alleged corruption linked to the purchase of Airbus aircraft for SriLankan Airlines. Sri Lanka: Namal Rajapaksa arrested, remanded in USD 800,000 Airbus graft case Rajapaksa, 40, was asked to appear before the Commission … Read more
Colombo, Sri Lanka’s Office of Missing Persons is handling almost 17,000 active cases of disappearances while its database contains over 23,000 cases, its chairman Mahesh Katulanda has said. Sri Lanka’s missing persons commission handling nearly 17,000 active cases Katulanda said the figures included disappearances linked to the island nation’s decades-long military conflict with the Liberation … Read more
On the dry plains around Hambantota, the vegetation can look unremarkable at first glance. Thorny scrub, patches of grass and scattered trees cover land that has already been reshaped by farms, roads and large infrastructure projects. Yet this rough-looking landscape is part of the everyday range of hundreds of Sri Lankan elephants. They feed here, … Read more