In June 2026, Keir Starmer announced that he would resign as UK prime minister, promising to “Do everything I can to ensure an orderly handover of power.” Less than two years earlier, he had led the ...

The government has indicated its intention to amend the retirement age of judges including judges of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal. This has been causing to a significant debate among ...

The NPP’s election manifesto, A Thriving Nation – A Beautiful Life, promised to launch a state-sponsored public awareness campaign on corruption, fraud and bribery with the aim of empowering citizens ...

The list is long and varied across ethnicities, religions, ages and genders – writers and journalists harassed, intimidated and threatened by the state for doing their job. And those are the lucky ...

There are thousands of bodies lying in mass graves across Sri Lanka, a legacy of its brutal and bloody past, which could reveal the fate of some of the thousands of missing people from the 26 year ...

“More the decline of the Buddhist Order of Sri Lanka, taller the statues.” E.W. Adikaram (Onwards alone like a unicorn) In November 2025, officials from the Department of Wildlife raided the home of ...

The visit by Minister of Justice Harshana Nanayakkara to the ongoing excavation site at Chemmani in Jaffna has once again focused national attention on one of the country’s most sensitive and ...

Every year, Sri Lanka returns to a moment in its recent history that remains deeply unresolved in its collective consciousness. Around the commemoration of the end of the armed conflict, the country ...

Fatima is a 17 year-old refugee child who has been living in Sri Lanka nearly 14 years. She and her family had arrived in Sri Lanka in 2012 and have been recognised as refugees by the UN High ...

On June 17, 2026 delegates filed into the Galle Face hotel for the Mineral Sands Technical Conference. Inside, the Chamber of Commerce was doing what it does best: opening doors for capital and ...

“We are here to stay – whether they choose to understand us or not.” On June 21, as the rest of the world marked the final day of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, a group of Sri Lankans gathered for the annual ...