Colombo is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo metropolitan area has a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 in the city proper. Read More
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed health authorities to collect information from experts in indigenous as well as western medicine to find a remedy to cure those affected with the deadly coronavirus, it was reported. ...
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said necessary investigations would be conducted before death certificates were issued for thousands of people who disappeared during the country's decades-long civil war. ...
Top officials from the US, China and Russia are set to visit Sri Lanka this week for high level talks with the government on a range of important issues, it was reported on Monday. ...
Sri Lanka's tourism industry has urged the continuation of the free-visa regime, as it has helped the island nation to recover from the massive setback following the April 21 Easter Sunday attacks that killed over 250 people, a media report said on T ...
Sri Lanka's health officials have said that the dengue outbreak in the island nation has reached epidemic proportions with the deaths of 120 people, adding that over 10 districts were affected by the rapidly increasing spread of the disease. ...