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The ferocious Ravana is the symbol of evil for many Hindus—but not all.

Still recovering from their 87-run drubbing against Australia, former champions Sri Lanka will now face a tough battle for survival when they lock horns with a ...

A fortnight after resigning from their ministerial positions in protest, two Muslim legislators were on Wednesday sworn in to the posts they earlier held.

Sri Lanka, like South Africa before them, are in a battle to survive in the ICC World Cup 2019. Four points from their first five games mean Dimuth Karunaratne's ...

U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has cancelled his visit to Sri Lanka due to “scheduling conflicts”, the American mission in Colombo said on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday said it has won a contract for water supply project in Sri Lanka. As per the ...

Several top officials have defied Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena by testifying to a parliamentary inquiry into the Easter Sunday suicide bombings ...

South Asia News: Sri Lanka's first satellite 'Ravana-1', designed and developed by two local engineers, was successfully launched into orbit this week from the ...

India and Sri Lanka are likely to be under threat with terror group ISIS turning its attention to the Indian Ocean Region in the wake of losses across Syria and Iraq ...

Says they have been in camps in India for the last 35 years and can invoke Article 21 of the Constitution.

Joe Root says England are ready to 'kick on' in the World Cup ahead of their next group game against Sri Lanka.

The Free Media Movement condemned the government for misusing the UN-backed International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) law to ...

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Colombo (News 1st): While the people of this country are suffering from not being able to fulfil their basic requirements, the economic situation in the - Get the ...

The Easter attacks in Sri Lanka killed more than 250 people in several churches. Since then, the Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, has had to ...

Kathiravelu Nithyananda Douglas Devananda, secretary general of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), represents Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna ...

Featured image courtesy NDTV. June 20 is World Refugee Day, coinciding with a time Sri Lanka faces its most serious refugee crisis since 2014. Though not a ...

One of the main suspects behind the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka has been extradited to the country. More than 250 people were killed in a string of ...

ECONOMYNEXT – The Criminal Investigations Department has secured judicial orders forcing the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital director to cooperate with their ...

Sri Lankan labour in 14 different job categories will have access to employment in the Japanese market, with Foreign Employment Ministry to put in stringent ...

Australia secured their fourth win at the ICC World Cup 2019 as they overcame Sri Lanka by 87 runs at The Oval on Saturday.

COLOMBO (News 1st) - A decisive meeting between railway trade unions and Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera will be held today(June 20).

Sri Lanka are likely to be hit with an International Cricket Council sanction after failing to fulfil their media duties following Saturday's World Cup defeat against ...

June 19, Colombo: The government of Sri Lanka Wednesday signed an agreement with the government of Japan enabling Sri Lanka to send an unlimited ...

Simultaneously, as many Sri Lankan military officers and their families left for India on Saturday, on a “special pilgrimage trip” to Bodh Gaya organised by the ...

English Analysis on Sri Lanka and 3 other countries about Protection and Human Rights and Refugees; published on 19 Jun 2019 by Amnesty.

Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the UN, Dr Rohan Perera paid a farewell call on UN Secretary General Antònio Guterres as his term comes to an end, ...

The Indian leader visits church bombed during Easter on his first trip to neighbouring Sri Lanka since his re-election.

COLOMBO (News 1st): Against the backdrop of the US intervention in many Asian countries, a matter that should be given serious attention is the - Get the latest ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka's government could face risks in refinancing its three billion US dollars of foreign debt in the next five years, especially if investor ...

President Sirisena fires chief of national intelligence for suggesting he had been forewarned about Easter bombings.

Sri Lanka have been warned against a repeat of their no-show in the customary post-match news conference following their World Cup loss to Australia, Sri ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — All nine Muslim ministers in Sri Lanka's government and two Muslim provincial governors resigned on Monday as the fragile, ...

Two months after more than 250 were killed during terror attacks in Sri Lanka, the congregation of a Tampa church is returning to offer help.

THE CHARGEs sound silly but the consequences are not. One Muslim lady's crime was to wear a shirt printed with a ship's helm. Her accusers said it looked like ...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Today marks World Refugee Day. The theme for the World Refugee Day this year is "Step With Refugees — Take A Step onWorld ...

COLOMBO (News 1st): President Maithripala Sirisena has invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for a visit to Sri Lanka in the near future. The - Get the ...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Sri Lanka is ranked fifth in the list of countries that release plastic and polythene waste to the ocean. According to an - Get the latest ...

Sri Lanka's battered tourism industry is trying to woo visitors back to beaches deserted after deadly Easter bombings, slashing hotel rates and pushing ...

COLOMBO (News 1st): Ambassador Alice Wells, the Acting Assistant Secretary for South & Central Asian Affairs of the U.S. Department of State commented ...

Jun 20, 2019 (LBO) – The Central Bank launched the roadmap for sustainable finance in Sri Lanka and hosted a high-level seminar for senior officers of ...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The recording of evidence in the case filed against former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Permanent High Court Trial at ...

Sitting pretty in the top section of the points table, Australia will look to consolidate their favourable position when they take on lowly Sri Lanka in Match 20 of the ...

The bombings have been framed as part of ongoing internal conflict, but Sri Lanka was just the stage for a play that could have been performed anywhere in the ...

ECONOMYNEXT – The senior-most police officer in the North-Western province is under investigation for attempting to cause racial hatred by planting reports of ...

Muslims live in fear after wave of attacks is blamed on Buddhist hardliners in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings.

COLOMBO: The Islamic extremists behind Sri Lanka's deadly Easter bombings received funding from state intelligence services, a top Muslim leader told a ...

The Lankan team management didn't send any representative for the press conference or to the 'mixed zone' after losing to Australia by 87 runs in ICC World ...

Indian anti-terrorism investigators have arrested a man with alleged links to the suicide bomber who planned Sri Lanka's deadly Easter Sunday attacks.

Despite just one win from four games, Sri Lanka are currently placed at the fifth spot in the points table, courtesy two wash out matches from which they shared ...

Sri Lanka's Attorney General Dappula de Livera PC has instructed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Terrorist Investigations Division (TID) to ...

Mumbai: Sri Lankan pace bowler Lasith Malinga, who had to make two recent trips to his country following the death of his mother-in-law has born his own travel ...

On May 8, when the 47-year-old Nazia Naseer (a pseudonym) went to her 5-year-old daughter's school in Colombo to attend a parent-teacher meeting, she was ...

It will be a clash of one-time Asian giants Pakistan and Sri Lanka at the Bristol County Ground on Friday.

An incredible bowling performance from Nuwan Pradeep and Lasith Malinga helped Sri Lanka edge out Afghanistan by 34 runs (DLS Method) in a rain-curtailed ...

Sri Lanka vs Australia Live Score, ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Match in London Latest Updates.

Bangladesh started the World Cup well, but seem to have lost their way lately.Bangladesh now face off against Sri Lanka, who, despite having a wretched ...

Now that Sri Lanka has been deemed safe for Britons to visit again, there are plenty of travel deals to be had.

Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana was in Budapest for bilateral discussions with the Hungary Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó last Friday.

Few realised before the attacks that Sri Lanka had a problem with Islamist militancy. One man who did was Mohammad Razak Taslim.

Colombo (News 1st): The five suspects, including Mohamad Milhan, who were arrested in Dubai in connection with the April 21st attacks have been brought to ...

From politicians to members of the LGBTQI community, social media in Sri Lanka is a hotbed of harassment and hostility.

The Daesh attacks in Sri Lanka has caused the island nation a severe economic downturn with its tourism industry hit particularly hard. The end of the - Get the ...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Another phase of the program to hand over Samurdhi to 600000 individuals was held in Homagama yesterday(June 19) under the - Get ...

Colombo: Sri Lankan social networks saw a surge in fake news after the Easter suicide bombings a month ago despite an official social media blackout, ...

UNHCR is working closely with authorities to find solutions for around 1000 refugees forced to leave their homes after the April 21 bombings.

NIA's operations against the Coimbatore module of the Islamic State will also be of key interest.Earlier, IS had claimed responsibility for the attacks in Sri Lanka.

LEEDS, Wednesday: It's crunch time for Sri Lanka as they take on a domineering England side at Headingley here on Friday in a World Cup match which will ...

The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Republic of Korea in association with the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) organized Sri Lanka's pavilion at the Seoul ...

Sri Lankan President Sirisena eschews responsibility at every turn. He has no leadership qualities and has been out of his depth since January 2015.

English News and Press Release on Sri Lanka about Health and Epidemic; published on 19 Jun 2019 by Govt. Sri Lanka.

(PRESS RELEASE) – Sri Lanka's construction sector which ranks as the 5th highest in the nations GDP earnings, after Services, Manufacturing, Agriculture and ...

Sri Lanka is in advanced talks with India and Japan to construct a container terminal at the port in Colombo, next to a Chinese terminal built as part of Beijing's ...

ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka's stocks closed 0.37 percent lower on Thursday, dragged down by index-heavy John Keells Holdings (JKH), provisional data ...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Ravana 1 satellite, a creation of two Sri Lankans and proudly bearing the Sri Lankan identity will be launched into the orbit today.

'Water is for All' by Duleep de Chickera poses some difficult questions about Sri Lanka's past and the challenges facing its future.

Sri Lanka A 260 for 3 (Dickwella 111, Cooray 65, Shreyas 3-49) beat India A 259 (Gaikwad 74, Dananjaya 3-51) by seven wickets. Niroshan Dickwella's ninth ...

Kristina Keneally asks why Coalition halted aerial surveillance, as Peter Dutton puts asylum seeker policy back on the agenda.

Moody's Investors *Service* says that Sri Lanka (B2 stable) faces numerous domestic and external obstacles that will pose challenges to the Government's ability ...

Samsung Sri Lanka today launched the world's first QLED 8K TV in Sri Lanka in partnership with SML Frontier Automotive, sole agents for Jaguar Land Rover in ...

Featured image courtesy NBC News. Maru Sira (his real name being D.J. Siripala) died at Bogambara Prison in Kandy, on August 7 1975. He was executed by ...

Sri Lanka will have to work within their limitations and can't copy a team like India in their pursuit for a knockout berth at the World Cup, said skipper Dimuth ...

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka will hike pensions of those who retired before December 2015 effective from July 2018, with the basic salary raised by 107 percent ...

SPONSORED - Huawei has been under the spotlight as it has become one of the casualties of the US trade war with China. Since debuting their first android ...

A new species of day gecko, Cnemaspis godagedarai, has been described in Sri Lanka, bringing the island's number of endemic geckos in the genus ...

The Court said that Centre has implied power to grant relaxation under Citizenship Act to asylum seekers.

In one moment everything changed on this island nation that until a couple of weeks ago enjoyed unprecedented peace and surging prosperity.

Distilled from the sap of the coconut flower, Sri Lankan arrack has been a local favourite for centuries. But now its makers are trying to take the spirit global, ...

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Mercedes Benz dealer Diesel & Motor Engineering Plc (DIMO) has reduced margins to absorb part of a steep currency collapse ...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will this weekend visit two neighbouring countries—the Maldives and Sri Lanka—a foreign ministry statement said ...

The first overseas visit of Indian Prime Minister Nadrendra Modi to the Maldives and Sri Lanka, in his second term, following a landslide electoral victory, is an ...

Largely forgotten match saw both teams score at more than seven an over, something which has become far more commonplace.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Even before the coordinated bombings that killed 250 people last month, Sri Lanka's president and prime minister were in trouble ...

Before the devastating terror attack in Sri Lanka last month, orchid farmer Chatura Cabraal was delivering more than 1,000 flowers a week to luxury hotels in the ...

The ICC World Cup 2019 match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka was called off without a ball being bowled due to incessant rain at Bristol on Tuesday (June ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi could make a short visit to Sri Lanka on his way to or back from the Maldives in early June, during his first visit ...

The Guardian's South Asia correspondent describes the challenges of reporting the recent atrocities in Sri Lanka and finding the words to justify intrusion into the ...

Analysis, social media chatter and plenty of silliness from the World Cup 2019 | ESPNcricinfo.com.

COLOMBO: The bombai-mutai seller said that sales were poor. People who once bought his sweets were today treating him differently because he was Musli.

Aaron Finch and Mitchell Starc star as Australia beat Sri Lanka to go top of the World Cup group-stage table.