Tag: Maithripala Sirisena

Sri Lanka on Saturday sealed a billion-dollar deal to let a Chinese state firm take over a loss-making port in ...

Sri Lanka has failed to deliver on its international commitments to prosecute government troops and Tamil rebels for atrocities committed ...

Former Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna Ranatunga on Friday demanded an investigation into the country's 2011 World Cup final defeat by ...

Sri Lanka announced Thursday a long-awaited investigation into the massacre of 27 prisoners that became a symbol of the rights ...

Sri Lanka's hardline monks on Monday broadened a growing campaign by the Buddhist clergy against the government, threatening street protests ...

Sri Lanka vowed Wednesday to grant greater autonomy to its Tamil minority in a new constitution after an influential Buddhist ...

Sri Lanka's military said Tuesday it has ended its occupation of a major fishing harbour after 27 years and allowed ...

Sri Lanka's justice minister faced calls for his resignation Tuesday after accusing a human rights lawyer of misleading the public ...

India joined Sri Lanka's relief operation Saturday as 230,000 people were driven from their homes after an intense monsoon deluge ...

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena announced his first cabinet reshuffle Monday, switching his finance and foreign ministers as he resists ...

Sri Lanka's President announced Saturday new investigations into alleged secret detention centres as part of a drive to find tens ...

Men in Sri Lanka are being raped in custody nearly a decade after the civil war, when sexual assault was ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Friday his desire for a "quantum jump" in relations with Sri Lanka, as New ...

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to Sri Lanka on Thursday on a charm offensive as New Delhi seeks to ...

Hopes of finding anyone alive under a collapsed mountain of garbage in Sri Lanka's capital faded Sunday as the death ...

At least six people were killed and 10 others injured in Sri Lanka's capital Friday after a massive rubbish dump ...

A Sri Lankan baby elephant gifted to New Zealand has been prevented from leaving the South Asian island after animal ...

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said Wednesday he would not protect anyone guilty of murder during the civil war, flagging ...

As many as 40,000 Tamil civilians may have died in the last few months of the fighting The United Nations ...

The UN rights chief on Wednesday condemned Sri Lanka's persistent failure to probe war-era atrocities, suggesting the government was afraid ...