Australia has announced that it will provide 50 million dollars to crisis-hit Sri Lanka to meet urgent food and health care needs and support the economic recovery. Visiting Australian Minister of Ho...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team began bailout talks in Sri Lanka on Monday, as the country’s cabinet cleared a constitutional amendment to dilute presidential powers that could assuage...

A group of protesters in Sri Lanka demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapksa for the mismanagement of the economy blocked all entrances of the presidential secretariat here, forcing the...

Media culpability can damage a country’s interests. Two recent instances will suffice to illustrate the point. The media’s role in recent events triggered by a Bharatiya Janata Party spoke...

Sri Lanka could have averted the current economic turmoil if it had gone to the IMF for a bailout sooner, the debt-ridden country’s central bank governor said, acknowledging that the delay in se...

Sri Lanka has approved a four-day work week for public sector workers to help them cope with a chronic fuel shortage and encourage them to grow food, the government said on Tuesday, as it struggles wi...

This is not the first time that entities within the Sri Lankan government had indicated a pro-Adani nudge from the Modi government. On March 2 last year, while awarding the project to develop the Wes...

A top Sri Lankan official, who claimed before a parliamentary panel that Prime Minister Narendra Modi allegedly influenced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to award a wind power project to the Adani Group...

One of Sri Lanka’s richest businessmen will replace the President’s brother in parliament, a ruling party official said on Friday, as the cash-strapped country moves forward on talks for a...

The brother of Sri Lanka’s President and the country’s former finance minister, Basil Rajapaksa, said on Thursday he had resigned from parliament, the second from the influential family to...