- Sunday
- September 14th, 2025
Bhathiya Barukanda
Four years after a stricken cargo ship caused the largest plastic spill ever recorded, volunteers on Sri Lanka's beaches are still sifting kilograms of tiny, toxic plastic pellets from the sand. Billions of plastic nurdles, as they are called, are...
Smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, which caught fire in the sea off Sri Lanka’s Colombo Harbour | Photo Credit: - The ruling relates to the catastrophic maritime disaster in May 2021, when the Singapore-flagged cargo...
Already living from hand to mouth, millions of garment workers across Asia fear for their jobs as a deadline to strike a trade deal with the US - or face punishing tariffs - looms closer. On 9 July, following a...
Sri Lanka has moved forward with a major initiative to boost tourist arrivals by expanding its free tourist visa program to 40 countries, including the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Thailand, and India. This development is part of an effort to...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake attended the inaugural session of the Annual General Meeting of the Global Federation of Sri Lankan Business Councils (GFSLBC), held this morning (25) at the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo. The GFSLBC serves as a platform bringing...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that the proposed education reform is not merely limited to curriculum revision but will simultaneously elevate both the social and economic spheres of the country. The President requested support for this initiative, emphasising that it...
New Delhi: Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu on Sunday slammed the Western media reports on the Air India plane crash in Gujarat's Ahmedabad that claimed over 250 lives, and said that making comments before the final report...
When the government of Sri Lanka published the National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve all become accustomed, after all, to the grim news these reports periodically bring us. But here it was, in black...
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a move hailed as a long-overdue conservation victory, Sri Lanka has formally declared Nilgala — a sweeping mosaic of grasslands, forests and sacred sites...
New Delhi: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on Thursday strongly criticised sections of the global media for what it described as “selective” and “unverified” reporting on the recent Air India crash that killed 260 people, urging the public and...
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