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 ...

HNB PLC extended its continued support to the island’s growing coffee industry as the official banking partner of Sri Lanka ...

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 Cabinet of Ministers approved this week the appointment of M. K. S. R. D. Samarasinghe as the new Director General of the ...

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 ...

President Anura Kumara Disanayake has appointed a high-level Presidential Task Force to spearhead the implementation of the ...

This contract comes after Silver Bay Seafoods was awarded USD 522,720 (EUR 446,110) to supply 277,200 pounds of frozen Alaska ...

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.

Thailand plans to address labour shortages by registering illegal workers and recruiting soldiers, prisoners, and youth for ...