Tag: Lanka
Sri Lanka: food prices soar
Sri Lankans line up to buy food on September 3, 2021, in Colombo (AFP / Archives / Ishara S. KODIKARA) Food prices in Sri Lanka rose from a record 22.1%…
Sri Lanka, the island of zen
All of softness and languor, the big island plunges its visitors into a zen attitude that is good for body and soul. source site-49
Landslides after rains: 15 dead after storms in Sri Lanka and India
At least 15 people died in landslides and floods in connection with heavy rain in Sri Lanka and in the neighboring south of India.source site-14
Shaman in Sri Lanka dies of corona despite “blessed” water
1/2 Monks at White’s funeral. 2/2 A cemetery worker prepares the shaman’s cremation. The 48-year-old Eliyantha White has rejected vaccines against the coronavirus, the family said on Thursday in the…
Sri Lanka on the brink
A police officer interrogates a driver at a checkpoint in Colombo on August 27, 2021, as the curfew is tightened. ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP The management of the Covid-19…
Fearing a “Delta wave”, Sri Lanka struggles to catch up with its vaccine delay
An army caregiver administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Wednesday July 7, 2021 in Colombo (Sri Lanka). ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP Sri Lanka must act quickly. While the…
Suspected of being divorced, the new Miss Sri Lanka has her crown torn off live
The election of Mrs Sri Lanka has turned into a fight, with wrestling of the crown live due to suspicion of divorce. A reminder that the rules of this type…
In Sri Lanka, security of churches tightened two years after Easter attacks
Sri Lankans lay flowers on a plaque commemorating the victims of the Easter attacks, killed in April 2019, at St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya, about forty kilometers from Colombo, on…