Award-winning startup ecosystem builder Hatch entered a strategic partnership with Draper Startup House, a global network of spaces connected to resources for entrepreneurs. Hatch shares a vision with Draper Startup House for Sri Lanka and has come on board to support Hatch’s “Sri Lanka: From Troubled Nation to Startup Nation”Continue Reading
The ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka is one of the worst to hit the country since its Independence. The island nation plunged into turmoil in March last year as people took to the streets blaming “government mismanagement” of the economy for the crisis. The protests forced President Gotabaya RajapaksaContinue Reading
Earlier this month, a people power movement in Sri Lanka forced the deeply unpopular president Gotabaya Rajapaksa out of office. Among those leading this movement were the country’s environmental activists. Mismanagement of environmental concerns contributed to the unpopularity and eventual resignation, in the face of popular protests, of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’sContinue Reading
Mismanagement of environmental concerns contributed to the unpopularity and eventual resignation, in the face of popular protests, of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president. While Rajapaksa’s main legacy is the worst economic crisis in the country’s history, he also leaves behind a multitude of failed environmental policies, critics say. Uncontrolled exploitationContinue Reading
CHEDDIKULAM, SRI LANKA — Sellan Yogarasa returned to Sri Lanka in 2014, after more than two decades of exile in India. He leased nine acres of agricultural land and began growing rice, a staple food for the island’s 22 million inhabitants. A harvest typically yielded about 288 bags of paddy,Continue Reading
Mismanagement of environmental concerns contributed to the unpopularity and eventual resignation, in the face of popular protests, of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president. While Rajapaksa’s main legacy is the worst economic crisis in the country’s history, he also leaves behind a multitude of failed environmental policies, critics say. Uncontrolled exploitationContinue Reading
Is high-density housing really necessary, and when did we have a debate about it? Photo / Michael Craig, File Living roomWith research proving that green space is necessary for mental health and the problems folk are having here now, it concerns me that trees are being taken down and buildingsContinue Reading
Sri Lankan environmentalists are bracing themselves for the toll on environment and biodiversity conservation that the country’s deepening economic meltdown will have. Acute fuel shortages mean the Department of Wildlife Conservation having to ration out fuel, when it can get it, for its patrol vehicles, while its revenue from tourismContinue Reading
The Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA), which oversees the clean-up, started the initiative in October and now supports 160 women across several sites. The challenge is enormous. When the group broke for tea two-and-a-half hours into the morning shift, they had filled half a large basin with pellets. A nearbyContinue Reading
When Adnan Sheikh took his family on holiday to Sri Lanka last October, he booked them into a hotel for two weeks in Sarakkuwa beach, just off the coast from where the X-Press Pearl cargo ship caught fire and sank five months previously. Sheikh had been charmed by the onlineContinue Reading
