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Of the six Popes of my lifetime starting with John XXIII, I felt emotionally closest to Pope Francis and saddest at his ...
Destination Sri Lanka It felt strange to get on a flight from Singapore, head westwards towards India, and stop just short of ...
Pereira spoke in a panel titled ‘Creating Communities’, where she recognised how exhibition making has given the MMCA Sri Lanka the opportunity to create community by building human capital in the ...
Sri Lanka is on track to post growth of 3.5% this year, the World Bank said in its latest report on Wednesday, unchanged from ...
Physical connection to India could dissuade other countries from deepening ties with the island, as it will be seen as New ...
Buddhists flocking to see a sacred tooth in Sri Lanka were urged by authorities to stay away on April 24 after four people died and hundreds fell sick while in lengthy queues. Regional police chief ...
End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...
“While Sri Lanka’s economy is bouncing back stronger ... in 2025—0.4 percentage points below the October projections—before ticking up to 6.1 percent in 2026. This outlook is subject ...
The US tariffs will lead to an uncertain period of the major economic powers with implications to small countries like Sri Lanka , former President Ranil Wickremesinghe warned. Mr Wickremesighe in a ...
Sri Lanka’s recently elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s political coalition, the National People’s Power (NPP), won an overwhelming amount of support from the majority Sinhalese community as ...
Pushpi’s entré into the peace-building world was in ... peacebuilder (non Rotarian) in Sri Lanka in 2011. She became a member of the Rotary Club of Colombo Mid-Town in 2012, after which she headed the ...