it will be the first time that a Sri Lankan wears the crown. Her introduction video for the pageant has garnered the highest number of views among all the contestants. On the fashion front ...

Sri Lanka’s first home Test match against Bangladesh, starting in June, will be the last Test match of Mathews’ career. Mathews began his Test career at Galle against Pakistan in 2009 ...

Due to decades of impunity in Sri Lanka, Tamil victims and advocates have lost faith in the domestic justice system and started looking for justice elsewhere. The United Nations human rights chief ...

Colombo, May 14 (Daily Mirror) - Sri Lanka will decide on the acceptance of over US $ 62 million grant for the development of Kankesanthurai Port (KKS), depending on the business feasibility of ...

For our first night in Sri Lanka we stayed in Negombo, my husband Joe’s home town and a bustling city close to the airport, known as “Water Colombo” in Tamil. With a lagoon, a beach front, and a mass ...

On Thursday, the Fashion Institute of Technology presented its 2025 Future of Fashion runway show. The annual presentation spotlights original designs created by a select crop of 2025 graduates ...

Sri Lanka’s local government elections on May 6 have thrown up interesting results. Although the ruling National People’s Power (NPP) achieved a decisive victory by winning 266 out of 339 ...

Sri Lanka’s recently elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s political coalition, the National People’s Power (NPP), won an overwhelming amount of support from the majority Sinhalese community as ...

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...

COLOMBO, April 23, 2025—Sri Lanka’s economy has made a remarkable recovery in 2024, surpassing growth expectations by recording 5 percent growth, compared to the projected 4.4 percent, says the World ...

The Sri Lanka Development Update (SLDU) has two main aims. First, it reports on key developments over the past 12 months in Sri Lanka’s economy, places these in longer term and global contexts, and ...

Tariffs on Sri Lanka goods heading to the US, including fashion are expected to be 44% from 9 April. Credit: esfera/Shutterstock. Sri Lanka’s government formed a working group aimed at evaluating the ...