Company to handle tourist visas from 145 countries on www.srilankaevisa.lk

It is expected that the issuing of visas to tourists coming to Sri Lanka will be done by a technical coordination agency for the issuing of visas in 145 countries, Public Security Ministry Secretary ... Read More

Sri Lanka aims for 2.3Mn tourists, USD 4Bn in 2024

After concluding 2024 event of the ITB Berlin Convention, the world’s leading travel industry think tank the minister said Sri Lanka Tourism is ... In the first few months of 2024, the island ... Read More

Tourists doing business: Sri Lanka to get tough

Earlier this month, the Daily Mirror exclusively reported that several foreign nationals including Russians, Ukrainians and Israelis who were in Sri Lanka under tourist visas were operating ... Read More

World News

Rebel fighters have handed Myanmar’s army defeat after defeat, for the first time raising the possibility that the military junta could be at risk of collapse. By Hannah Beech and Adam ... Read More

The World Bank In Sri Lanka

As Sri Lanka is going through the worst economic crisis in decades, the World Bank is repurposing resources from existing projects to support the most urgent needs and coordinating with other ... Read More

Sri Lanka bombings: Forgiving and fighting to recover

Six months ago, on Easter Sunday, Sri Lanka was hit by one of the world’s worst terrorist attacks this century. The town of Negombo suffered the deadliest bombing, when 115 people died while ... Read More

Sri Lanka: Families waiting for news from their children

Sri Lanka’s civil war ended 10 years ago but there has been little progress in tracing those who disappeared during and after the violent end to the war. About 20,000 people, mostly Tamils ... Read More

World Bank raises Sri Lanka's growth forecast to 2.2% for 2024

The IMF programme helped Sri Lanka's economy stabilise, and it is expected to return to growth this year after contracting 2.3% in 2023. The World Bank, in its latest report on South Asia ... Read More

World News

Al-Shifa Hospital lies in ruins after a battle there between Israeli soldiers and Gazan gunmen. Shortly before withdrawing, the Israeli military brought journalists from The Times to witness the ... Read More

Sri Lanka

Located between 5 and 10 degrees ... complicate Sri Lankan national life. All over South Asia (including today’s countries of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), resistence to ... Read More