Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday put on show what they said was the world’s largest natural corundum blue sapphire, weighing 310 kilograms (683 pounds), which was found in a gem pit about three ...

A gem merchant in Nivithigala has found a Blue Sapphire in the shape of Sri Lanka. The gem merchant Rohan Wasantha Dissanayake of Nivithigala said he bought it from a gem miner in Karavita area.

Even as Sri Lanka struggles with its worst financial crisis ever and faces acute shortage of several key products, including fuel, Sapphire Foods, a franchisee of Yum! Brands, which operates KFC ...