This box factory in Sri Lanka is now making a special product - cardboard coffins. They are made out of recycled paper and cost a sixth of the cheapest wooden casket. With the country reporting record ...

Family members of inmates react outside the prison, following unrest at Mahara Prison, in Colombo Family members of inmates react outside the prison, following unrest at Mahara Prison, in Colombo ...

Sri Lanka announced Friday it has confirmed its first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in an unvaccinated person who returned from Nigeria. Health ministry spokesperson Dr. Hemantha ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Manjula Wijesuriya had COVID-19, but his friends and family say that’s not what killed him. When the 51-year-old tutor suffered a heart attack in late July, his loved ones rushed ...

Sri Lanka began 2020 with a newly elected president whose Sinhalese Buddhist supporters claimed would transform the country. Gotabaya Rajapaksa titled his November 2019 election manifesto Vistas of ...

Sri Lankan police officials detain a man who violated the COVID-19 guidelines imposed by the authorities to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, May 7, 2021. Credit: AP ...

The island nation of Sri Lanka is now open to tourists from all countries. Sri Lanka Minister of Tourism Prasanna Ranatunga made the official announcement during a press conference on Thursday, ...

(New York) – Sri Lanka’s police are increasingly killing and abusing people under cover of the Covid-19 pandemic measures and an anti-drug campaign, Human Rights Watch said today. Recent police abuses ...

Sri Lanka is in the grip of multiple crises. In addition to a worsening COVID-19 situation, the country is grappling with an economic crisis, and food and fuel shortages. The military is at the ...

Following a suicide bombing that killed 12 people in Islamabad on November 11, 2025, Pakistani authorities ramped up security ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — For months he’s been anonymous, but now Prasad Dinesh, linked by Sri Lankan authorities to nearly half of the country’s more than 2,600 coronavirus cases, is trying to clear his ...

At least eight prisoners were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes with guards at a Sri Lankan prison, officials said on Monday, as authorities tried to quell a protest over rising coronavirus ...