NEW YORK: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Sri Lankan government to reverse a new regulation that unlawfully restricts protests in large areas of the capital, Colombo. On …
COLOMBO: The United States has announced $40 million in aid to buy fertilizer and other key agricultural inputs in time for the next cultivation season in crisis-hit Sri Lanka. USAID …
OTTAWA: Two Canadians of Sri Lankan origin, Professor Janaka Ruwanpura and Dr. Sivakumar Gulasingam have been named among the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2022, the Sri Lankan High Commission …
COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) marine contingent which left for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 exercise, hosted by the US Pacific Fleet, arrived the island on August …
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government is cracking down on the people who participated in a protest movement that toppled the island nation’s president last month, arresting several demonstration leaders, slapping …
NEW YORK: The U.S. is doing a small developing country’s dirty work in prosecuting its ex-ambassador for fraud, and it may eventually be cause for discomfort along Embassy Row. In …
© THE NEW YORKER By Isaac Chotiner NEW YORK: Last week, protesters in Colombo stormed the residence of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the President of Sri Lanka, who had fled the country …
© COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS By Akhil Bery NEW YORK: For over one hundred days, Sri Lankans have been protesting in the streets while the country faces its worst economic …
NEW YORK: The United Nations General Assembly adopted today (23rd May 2022), a Sri Lanka sponsored Resolution A/76/L.56, declaring 1st March as World Seagrass Day. The resolution was adopted by …
NEW YORK: The signing ceremony of the Joint Communiqué on establishing diplomatic relations between the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste was held on …