Global Marine Investments enhances partnership with Rotary’s One Million Trees Project
Global Marine Investments, a part of the Global Marine Group, contributed Rs 100,000 to Rotary Sri Lanka’s One Million Trees Project to enhance the Group’s partnership with Rotary Sri Lanka to grow the country’s forest cover. In August 2024 Global Marine Services (Private) Limited, a company engaged in Seafarer recruitment and placement on foreign vessels [...]
Climate adaptation more than covers its cost
By Mekala Krishnan, Annabel Farr, and Kanmani Chockalingam, PROJECT SYNDICATE, EXCLUSIVE TO THE SUNDAY TIMES IN SRI LANKA BOSTON – Humanity has long learnt to live with extreme weather. Much of the Netherlands would be under water were it not for centuries of ingenious adaptation to the constant threat of flooding. Likewise, ancient communities on [...]
Korea Exim Bank extends humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka in wake of cyclone Ditwah
In the wake of Cyclone Ditwah, which affected more than one million people across Sri Lanka, the Export–Import Bank of Korea has pledged USD 50,000 in humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka through the Korea Red Cross. The support, provided in response to a request made by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, is intended to deliver immediate [...]
GCF Research Awards in Economic Development
The Gamani Corea Foundation (GCF) was established by the visionary economist of Sri Lanka Dr Gamani Corea. He devoted his entire life to promoting inclusive development and poverty eradication in the global South. His efforts transcended geo-linguistic boundaries as it was a time when emerging nation states were grappling with the harsh realities of nation [...]
Service to mark Lasantha’s 17th death anniversary
On Thursday, 8 January, 9 am at Borella Kanatte The 17th anniversary of the assassination of The Sunday Leader founder Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge, which falls on 8 January, will be marked with a service at his graveside. Family, friends, former colleagues and others will gather at Borella Kanatte on Thursday, at 9 am to mark [...]
Lankan graduates secure PhD scholarships at National University of Singapore
Six Sri Lankan graduates from the University of Moratuwa have been awarded highly competitive PhD scholarships at the National University of Singapore (NUS), one of the world’s leading universities, for the January 2026 intake. The scholarships are part of a special initiative facilitated by Prof Suranga Nanayakkara, Vice Dean (Communications) at School of Computing, NUS, [...]
Public talk on Highland Biodiversity
A lecture on ‘Highland Biodiversity – Biodiversity of the upcountry Wet Zone’ will be delivered by naturalist, researcher and conservation biologist Rajika Gamage on January 8 (Thursday) at 6 pm at the Biology Lecture Theatre (BLT), Department of Zoology, University of Colombo. The lecture organised by the Sri Lanka Natural History Society (SLNHS) will focus [...]
Cyclone Ditwah exposed Lanka’s real housing crisis
A land-use and population capacity analysis By Sydney Marcus Silva Sri Lanka’s recurring housing crises, increasingly intensified by climate-related disasters, reflect long-standing structural failures in land-use planning rather than absolute land scarcity. This article examines the relationship between environmental constraints, historical land transformation, and contemporary settlement patterns in Sri Lanka. Drawing on national land-use statistics, [...]