India has completed a major humanitarian mission to Sri Lanka following Cyclone Ditwah, deploying the largest foreign field hospital ever sent to the island under Operation Sagar Bandhu.
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Sri Lanka’s worker remittances surged to a record US$7.2 billion in the first 11 months of 2025, surpassing the previous annual high set in 2017,
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Sri Lanka has received only 0.17% of the estimated USD 6.5 billion required to rebuild damage caused by Cyclone Dithwa, highlighting serious shortcomings in international engagement by the current government.
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The World Bank Group Bank has announced up to US$ 120 million in emergency support for Sri Lanka to assist ongoing recovery and restoration activities.
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Sri Lanka’s economy expanded by 5.4 percent in the third quarter of 2025, according to the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS).
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As emergency relief winds down, the economic reckoning from the recent cyclone is only beginning. While floodwaters have receded,
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Sri Lanka’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) once again find themselves paying the highest price for a natural disaster,
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The cancellation of Global Leasing Limited’s lease for prime land on Perahera Mawatha has exposed broader uncertainties in Colombo’s urban development policies. The land,
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The Government’s announcement of the RE-MSME PLUS loan scheme has raised a critical question: can credit-based relief, delayed until 2026, genuinely rescue enterprises already devastated by Cyclone Diwah?
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At least 13,698 businesses were affected by Cyclone Diwah and the subsequent floods, according to complaints received by a support centre established by the Ministry of Industries.
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