The move aims to reduce government spending and convert the mansions into hotels or museums, with former leaders receiving a modest rent allowance instead Sri Lanka's leftist government asked former ...

UK Premier Keir Starmer reiterated his Government’s commitment to addressing justice, accountability of reconciliation in Sri Lanka and issues faced by Tamils, including advocating for human rights ...

Following a tip-off from an Indian investor, Sri Lanka’s anti-graft body on Thursday arrested President Maithripala Sirisena’s top aide, who was found accepting a bribe at the car park of a ...

Four months after being elected president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake must fix multiple unresolved issues of corruption, rights abuses and long-term displacement.

Ex-CBSL Deputy Governor backs AKD’s ETCA move  By Shamindra Ferdinando Executive Director of Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to step down in 2022 as Sri Lanka faced its worst economic meltdown, with foreign reserves plummeting and the nation running out of dollars to finance imports of ...

He was previously jailed last year on a similar charge of disparaging Sri Lanka's minority Muslims ... later after former president Maithripala Sirisena pardoned him. His patron Rajapaksa was ...

Sri Lanka will go ahead with the free trade agreement with Singapore, on the basis of policy continuity, Deputy Finance ...

The goods schedule of the SLSFTA from Sri Lanka covers 7,438 tariff lines at HS 8-digit level on the tariff schedule, where 80% of tariff lines with Customs duties (i.e. 5,950 tariff lines) are to be ...