COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Debt-stricken Sri Lanka hosted one of New Zealand’s top ministers to discuss ways to deepen bilateral ties in areas such as trade, tourism and agriculture.

Sri Lanka's leftist government won local council elections but with significantly lower margins, in its first test since sweeping national polls last year, official results showed on Wednesday.

Over 17 million Sri Lankan voters will on Tuesday (May 6, 2025) get to vote in the local government elections — the island nation’s third election in seven months — to elect representatives ...

COLOMBO — A Sri Lankan express train killed an elephant and was derailed on Tuesday, despite safety measures introduced after the country’s worst wildlife railway accident three months ago on ...

Sri Lankan authorities meticulously searched a Sri Lankan Airlines flight from Chennai at Colombo airport, prompted by intelligence concerning a potential suspect linked to the Pahalgam attack.

He has had the blessings and grace of Shri Shankaracharya Swami of Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, right from the time of his initiation into vedic studies in 2006. BENGALURU: Kanchi Kamakoti ...

Rig Vedic scholar from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh Sri Satya Chandrashekarendra Saraswathi Shankaracharya was anointed as the junior pontiff of the ancient Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam at a grand ...

Sri Lanka’s great and former skipper Angelo Mathews has retired from Test cricket, calling time on an illustrious career with both bat and ball. Mathews represented Sri Lanka in 118 Tests over a ...

The Indian women’s team will take on Sri Lanka in the ODI Tri-series final on Sunday, the 11th of May. Both teams will be geared up to win the contest as it will give the winning team a boost ...

What will be the implications on Sri Lanka, of this FTA between the UK, our second-largest export market and India, our third-largest export market? * The UK’s imports from Sri Lanka have declined ...

A helicopter crash in Sri Lanka has killed six military personnel, an Air Force official said on Friday. A Bell 212 helicopter had crashed into the Maduru Oya reservoir in central Sri Lanka with a ...

A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said.The accident occurred in the early hours ...