Tag: Sinhalese people

Rights groups accused Sri Lankan police Wednesday of failing to stop a wave of hate crimes against Muslim businesses and ...

Sri Lankan cricketing legend Kumar Sangakkara said Monday he will retire from first-class cricket at the end of the present ...

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

Not content with scoring one century at Lord's in a match where his portrait was unveiled in the Pavilion, Sri ...

Sri Lanka said Friday it will demolish an estimated 10,000 illegally built homes and offices in Colombo, a day after ...

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 ...

Former Sri Lanka captain Aravinda de Silva has stepped down as chairman of the national board's cricket committee for personal ...

Sri Lanka's foreign minister on Friday accused the previous administration of using its embassies abroad as "safe houses" for murderers ...

Sri Lanka on Wednesday ended the grim search for survivors five days after a huge garbage mountain collapsed onto a ...

Sri Lanka has moved over 400 families to temporary shelters after tonnes of rotting garbage collapsed onto a slum on ...

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

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

The brother of Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapakse denied Tuesday involvement in war-era death squads, blaming the then army ...

Former Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse's brother Gotabhaya directed a top-secret death squad which targeted journalists and dissidents, a court ...

President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in Sri Lanka promising justice for war crimes, breaking from his hawkish predecessor and ...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is to scale back a profitable but controversial deal to sell a deep-sea port to a Chinese ...

Sri Lanka Monday vowed to honour government bonds of up to 1,780 billion rupees ($11.86 billion) even as the central ...

Several people have been injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and ...