Swift support in times of crisis has made the nation one of New Delhi’s few remaining close partners in the region.

Extracts from the book titled ‘Vintage Vignettes’ by Vinodh Wickremeratne, which provides some interesting recollections of the life and times of Philip Upali Wijewardene, Founder and Chairman of the ...

And crucially, how does this narrative align with the historical fact that Buddhism, which the Mahāvamsa itself frames as the civilizational anchor, only arrived in Sri Lanka centuries later around ...

Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Wednesday (Feb 25, 2026) ...

Colombo: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, HE Vijitha Herath, met ...

Japan plans to deploy surface-to-air missiles to its remote western island near Taiwan by March 2031, its defence minister ...

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested retired Major General Suresh Sallay, the former head of the State Intelligence Service, ...

Sri Lanka’s criminal investigators on Wednesday arrested the country’s former intelligence chief in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, including 45 foreigners.

The largely state controlled Sri Lankan health sector is a comparatively high quality welfare system. Still on many instances media reports the hardships less privileged go through when state sector ...