Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (right)shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi outside the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo during the latter’s visit to Sri Lanka ...

Sri Lanka’s diplomatic encounters with New Delhi during the 1980s are a case in point: while India pushed Sri Lanka to negotiate with Tamil militants, as K. M. de Silva has noted it did little to make ...

The death of 25-year-old Sathsara Nimesh has triggered protests and accusations of police brutality in Sri Lanka. Nimesh's mother believes he was beaten to death. Sathsara Nimesh is not the first ...

In response to the new challenges stemming from the way the war ended, Sri Lanka’s foreign policy was forced to redefine its priorities. The Sinhala nationalist clientele of the regime gave currency ...

The sinking of the MV X-Press Pearl off Sri Lanka’s coast released 1,680 metric tons of plastic nurdles, marking the world’s largest nurdle spill and triggering long-term damage to marine ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's government pledged closer ties on Thursday (May 1) with Communist parties in China and India, two regional powers competing for influence in the small but strategically ...

British ‘divide and rule’ policies led to the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, resulting in the displacement of 14 million people and approximately one million deaths Sri Lanka can play a ...

Meanwhile, National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) President Suresh Subramaniam told the Daily Mirror that the ongoing conflict between the two countries and the upcoming SAG is a serious ...

The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has said that the Vatican has recognised 167 of its members killed in the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings as witnesses of faith, a designation given to ...

Sri Lanka seamer Kasun Rajitha has joined Essex on a five-match deal for the Rothesay County Championship. The right-armer has 18 Test caps, with 55 wickets at 29.58, and returned a career-best 5 ...

He previously played under Essex director of cricket Chris Silverwood, who had a two-year spell as Sri Lanka head coach. "We are delighted to welcome Kasun to Essex and very much look forward to ...

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