No fuel, no hope: Sri Lankans flee crisis in mass brain drain
COLOMBO: Shamla Yoosoof, an investment researcher from Colombo, left Sri Lanka with her 3-year-old son and a jam-packed suitcase, swapping economic chaos at home for…
Sri Lanka: Devastating crisis for children, a ‘cautionary tale’ for South Asia
COLOMBO: Staple foods have become unaffordable, warned UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei who pointed out that severe malnutrition in crisis-wracked Sri Lanka was…
Sri Lanka and IMF reach staff-level pact for US $ 2.9bn under Extended Fund Facility
COLOMBO: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Peter Breuer and Mr. Masahiro Nozaki visited Colombo from August 24 to September 1, 2022…
British Instagrammer files writ petition against Sri Lankan government’s move to deport her
COLOMBO: Scottish woman Kayleigh Fraser has filed a writ petition at the Court of Appeal against the decision taken by the Department of Immigration and…
13 human rights and civil society organisations call on Sri Lanka to end violent crackdown on peaceful protesters
NEW YORK: Thirteen human rights and civil society organisations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists have condemned the brutal…
Sri Lanka targets organisers of protests that toppled president
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,…
Sri Lankan civic activists concerned over ‘witch-hunt’ by state
COLOMBO: Citizens’ groups and activists in Sri Lanka have expressed concern over a series of arrests last week, of prominent members of the recent anti-government…
Amid a national crisis, Sri Lankan artists look back – and look forward
COLOMBO: In the four months leading up to July 9 toppling of Sri Lanka’s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a protest village formed in Colombo, occupying…
Sri Lanka’s international image dealt a body blow after brutal assault on peaceful protestors
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s parliament-elected new President Ranil Wickremesinghe saw his presidency get off to the worst possible start, as hundreds of police and military personnel…
‘Supreme power of people’: Sri Lanka marks 100 days of protests
COLOMBO: A mainly youth-led mass protest movement over Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic crisis has completed 100 days. During the period, the protesters forced a president…