Colombo: Sri Lanka launched the "Praja Shakthi" national program on Friday in Colombo, aiming to eradicate rural poverty and uplift local communities. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake presided over ...

Sri Lanka’s infrastructure suffered from neglect as a result of decades of civil conflict. The Government of Sri Lanka and the World Bank through the Roads Sector Assistance Project (RSAP) ...

ADIGAMA, Sri Lanka (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Scorched by a 10-month drought that has killed crops and reduced residents to buying trucked-in water, Adigama’s young people are voting with their ...

Gimani Anupama breaks down as she recalls the ordeal. Speaking about it brings back bad memories. "But it must be said. Something like this mustn't happen to anyone else," she said. Ms Anupama, 51, a ...

As an undergraduate chemistry major at Union College, Jake Ulrich studied abroad in Vietnam, where water wasn't safe to drink straight from the tap—it either had to be boiled first or bought. An ...

For the past couple of decades, tens of thousands of people living in rural Sri Lanka have been devastated by kidney failure due to unclear causes, also known as CKDu. Similar incidences of mysterious ...

Today the UN observes the International Day of Rural Women. Women contribute to the rural economies in many ways from small village self-help groups to leadership roles in decision making processes at ...

This is the report delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, the General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally ...