This temple has pictorial illustrations of a large number of episodes covering the history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka up to the reign of King Vijayabahu, the contemporary of King Anawrahta and ...

Many factors, including poor decision-making on fiscal policy initiatives and economic management, led to Sri Lanka’s economic collapse. Eventually, the country’s government resorted to asking ...

For more than 35 years, UNHCR assisted people forced to flee throughout a prolonged conflict in Sri Lanka. Most internally displaced people were able to return to their places of origin and many Sri ...

This sacred Buddhist site, popularly known as the city of Senkadagalapura, was the last capital of the Sinhala kings whose patronage enabled the Dinahala culture to flourish for more than 2,500 years ...

Polonnaruwa was the second capital of Sri Lanka after the destruction of Anuradhapura in 993. It comprises, besides the Brahmanic monuments built by the Cholas, the monumental ruins of the fabulous ...

Official data showed that Sri Lanka’s poverty rate doubled to 25 per cent between 2021 and 2022, adding more than 2.5 million people to those already living on less than US$3.65 a day.