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Sri Lanka’s interlocking economic and political crises remain acute. In this excerpt from the Watch List 2022 – Autumn Update, the Crisis Group lays out what the EU and its member states can do to mitigate the risks of needed...

Yesterday, Mr. Sajith Premadasa, the opposition leader, went to his home in Dambane to inquire about the well-being of the mother of Antare convener Wasantha Mudalige, who has been kept under summons for more than 50 days. There, the opposition...

The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers on Monday (10) will likely take up a proposal for Sri Lanka to revert from a middle-income country to a low-income country. This is with the aim of obtaining concessionary funding from the International...

Chief Medical Officer of Peradeniya University Health Center Chandima Herath says that 140 female students have come to the Peradeniya University Health Center for psychological counseling since last August until now, and 10% of them were hospitalized and treated. The...

Two Australian men have been charged with bribing Sri Lankan officials to secure infrastructure contracts worth millions of dollars. Australian police arrested the pair last month after a decade-long investigation spanning several countries. The men, aged 67 and 71, worked...

The Cabinet has been informed about the financial facility provided to Sri Lanka by the International Monetary Fund. It is reported that a group of representatives of the International Monetary Fund who participated in the meeting of the Cabinet of...

It is no stranger to us in Sri Lanka that politicians are ridiculed by society for what they say and do. The reason is that it is an experience that is recorded according to which government governs the country. But...

JVP Publicity Secretary Mr. Vijitha Herath said that there is a WhatsApp message circulating that four members of his party have given money to Thilini Piumali and it is fake. He pointed out that such false names are being propagated...

Its Secretary General Mr. Sagara Kariyawasam said that Pohottuwa agrees with the President's proposal to change the election system. He pointed out that if a referendum is necessary, his party will also support it.

The Puttalam Police have launched  investigations after a school girl died after she fell in her school in the Managunduwa area in Puttalam today. Police said the girl fell to the ground while running from the classroom towards the playground...