At least seven Buddhist monks, including three foreign nationals, died in a cable car accident at a Sri Lankan monastery on Wednesday, local police told CNN. The monks were among 13 people traveling ...

SINGAPORE - A Singapore-headquartered shipping company said on Sept 23 that it will refuse to pay Sri Lankan court-ordered damages of US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) for causing that country’s worst case ...

Dir: Vimukthi Jayasundara. Sri Lanka/India/France. 2025. 99mins. Sri Lankan bioengineer Anandi (Indira Tiwari) returns to earth to bury her recently deceased father after several years in space, only ...

Suranga Wellalage, father of Sri Lankan cricketer Dunith Wellalage, has died in Colombo, reportedly from a heart attack. Dunith Wellalage, aged 22, currently represents Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup in ...

For six months now, a team of archaeologists and forensic experts has been unearthing human remains from a mass grave in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka. The number of skeletons retrieved has now crossed ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ranil Wickremesinghe, who served as the island ...

Former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Friday in connection with allegations of misuse of state funds, local television channel ...

Sri Lankan police on Friday arrested the country's former president and senior opposition politician Ranil Wickremesinghe over allegations of misusing public funds during his tenure as president, ...

When President Donald Trump announced his new reciprocal tariffs in April, he identified a group of countries as “worst offenders” with unfair trade policies. And Sri Lanka was almost on the top of ...

Cadres from Naam Thamizhar Katchi (NTK) held a protest outside theatres in Tirchy, demanding a ban on Gowtam Tinnanuri's Kingdom. Gowtam Tinnanuri’s Vijay Deverakonda, Satyadev, Venkitesh and ...

The US has announced a 20 per cent tariff on Sri Lankan exports, marking a 24 per cent reduction from the initial rate proposed for the island nation. As the deadline for tariff negotiations ending on ...