Sri Lanka

Colombo:  Anyone found hiding symptoms of the novel coronavirus in Sri Lanka will be handed a six-month jail term, a senior police official said here on Monday, adding that there...

Colombo:  Former Sri Lankan presidential hopeful Sajith Premadasa has launched the new Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) alliance ahead of the April 25 parliamentary elections, saying it was a long-term effort...

Colombo: A Sri Lankan Parliament committee on national security has proposed the immediate ban on the burqa and also suspend registration of political parties on ethnic and religious basis, the...

Colombo   Rohitha Rajapaksa, one of three sons of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, has issued an apology over comments he made on social media that drew strong criticism, a...

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has for the time acknowledged that more than 20,000 people who disappeared during the country's decades-long civil war were dead, the media reported on...

Colombo:  A record number of elephants, 361, have died in Sri Lanka during 2019, the highest figure since the island nation became independent in 1948, environmental groups say. There are...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said Thursday that he has become the victim in the alleged abduction of a Swiss Embassy employee who was reportedly threatened and sexually...

Colombo   Sri Lanka President appointed an interim cabinet with 15 ministers and vowed to hold Parliament election at an earliest date that the constitution would allow. Fifteen ministers, including his...

Colombo:  Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday announced his resignation, clearing the way for new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appoint a replacement of his choice and a new...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a former defence official revered by Sri Lanka's ethnic majority for his role in ending a bloody civil war but feared by minorities for his brutal...