Preparations for helicopter services for the Kedarnath Dham pilgrimage have been completed. This year, keeping the ...

The evening of 11th April 2026, marked the launch of Professor Sivasubramanium Pathmanathan’s groundbreaking research, Glimpses of an Ancient Civilization, Society and Culture in Jaffna 300 BC–AD 500.

The Chamara Kala Nikethanaya, a pioneering institution that has preserved and promoted Sri Lanka’s traditional dance heritage for over five decades, recently celebrated another historic milestone with ...

Kandy, Sri Lanka – On a sunny March day in the hill city of Kandy in central Sri Lanka, Keerthi Rathna waited in a serpentine queue to buy his share of petrol for his three-wheeler tuk-tuk. The ...

DFCC Bank PLC (DFCC Bank), through its women-focused proposition DFCC Aloka, has partnered with Chrysalis to expand financial access, business capacity, and market opportunities for women-led micro, ...

Drivers wait in a queue to refuel their auto rickshaws at a fuel station in Biyagama on the outskirts of Colombo on 15 March (AFP via Getty Images) Sri Lanka’s government said that it is limiting fuel ...

Sri Lanka’s president says his government turned down a request from the United States to land two US combat aircraft at a civilian airport earlier this month. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told ...

Sri Lanka has introduced a four-day work week to conserve fuel to prepare for a prolonged war in the Middle East. The government is also suspending all public ceremonies and asking civil servants to ...

Snaking queues are seen around petrol stations in Sri Lanka as motorists scramble for fuel Sri Lanka has declared every Wednesday a holiday for public institutions to conserve fuel as the island ...

Sri Lanka has declared every Wednesday a holiday for public institutions to conserve fuel as the island nation grapples with possible shortages in the wake of the US and Israel's war with Iran. "We ...

Effective closure of strait of Hormuz also affecting Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, which have brought in crisis measures Sri Lanka is introducing a shorter four-day working week to preserve its ...

Sri Lanka has taken control of an Iranian naval vessel off its coast, a day after the US sank an Iranian warship in the same waters, in an attack that killed at least 87 people. The vessel, the Irins ...