In recent months, elephants have stolen the spotlight yet again in Sri Lanka’s mainstream and social media. The surge in attention to them began when a series of deadly train collisions killed several ...

Sri Lanka has lost more than 6,400 elephants in the past 24 years — an average of over 260 per year — and 250 more have died in just the first six months of 2025. For Jehan CanagaRetna, Vice President ...

The orchid, Vanda thwaitesii, an endemic species to Sri Lanka was rediscovered nearly 160 years after its presumed extinction, marking the first sighting since its initial record in 1861, states a ...

A state-of-the-art banana tissue culture planting material production laboratory has been set up in Sri Lanka's North Central ...

The Sectoral Oversight Committee on Environment, Agriculture, and Resource Sustainability has drawn attention to the utilisation of compensation received for the damage caused by the X-Press Pearl ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has stated that incentives will be introduced to encourage export diversification and the development of value-added products, the President''s Media ...

Italy’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Maria Tripodi, will visit Sri Lanka from September ​3–5, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

The basket assessment of average ultramax spot rates, which comprises 11 key routes, was assessed $126 higher on Wednesday at ...

Indian exports to the United States have been hit with one of the harshest trade penalties in recent history-- a 50 per cent ...

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear” — Antonio Gramsci ..

Introducing the CP Daily News Ticker, a running list of all our news updated in real-time throughout the day. This is also the new home of our ‘Bite-sized updates from around the world’, which ...

Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that focus is being placed on enhancing the quality of the agricultural sector ...