Although Sri Lanka has set a target of increasing the share of renewable energy to 70 per cent by 2030, civil society professionals have alleged that responsible authorities are taking steps that discourage rooftop solar power generation.
The government is looking into three options on how it plans to move forward, with the country’s four-year International Monetary Fund (IMF) Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement nearing completion in March 2027. While another EFF,...
As calls grow to save Anojan Sivarasa, who has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia over allegedly blasphemous social media content, religious leaders and residents in Vavuniya signed a petition urging the government to take all...
An appeal from President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is to be carried by representatives of the government, opposition parties and all religious representatives to the King of Saudi Arabia seeking clemency for Anojan Sivarasa, whose...
It was when Sri Lanka’s fourth prime minister, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, then minister of health and indigenous medicine in D.S. Senanayake’s Cabinet, was standing at the foot of the Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura that his only son was born. He...