Risks associated with the transport of chemicals and plastics in containerships need to be addressed, say the authors of the first public study into the impacts on people and the environment of toxic chemicals released during the largest plastic pellet spill on record.

The arrest of an outspoken young Catholic activist in Sri Lanka on Monday has drawn the condemnation of the country’s prominent Church leader, who expressed concern over the threat to the freedom of expression and the return of the dreaded ‘white van” culture in Sri Lanka.

Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is set to make a special statement on Sri Lanka's economic crisis and the appropriate measures that need to be taken to resolve it after the conclusion of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Board Meeting scheduled to be held later this month.

The Chinese company that had placed a tender for the construction of the Central Expressway Project's (CEP -03) Rambukkana to Galagedera section has written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa regarding a potential tender irregularity.

Civil activist Shehan Malaka Gamage has been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Panadura today (14).

Sri Lanka’s political parties have issued a joint statement calling on the government to take immediate action to find a lasting solution to the massive economic crisis facing the country.

The United National Party (UNP) has condemned the recent attack on a member of the media fraternity.

A pastor of a Sri Lankan Christian church says he still fears for his life decades after his church came under attack by extremist Buddhist mobs.

The residence of senior journalist Chamuditha Samarawickrama was attacked by an unidentified group this morning (14).

Paying tribute to the late Minister Mangala Samaraweera, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe observed that the Mangala Samaraweera he knew had three distinct characters.