Sri Lanka started a probe following a complaint lodged by both Perera and Herath.
01 Jan 2016 5:34 PM
Sri Lankan investigators have found enough evidence to arrest members of the previous Mahinda Rajapaksa regime for alleged corruption and rights abuses during his 10-year rule, a senior minister said.
31 Dec 2015 6:05 AM
An entertainment company owned by two Sri Lankan cricket legends apologised Monday for an Enrique Iglesias concert where local women shed their underwear, sparking outrage from the country’s President
29 Dec 2015 1:07 AM
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday said that organisers of a recent concert by pop star Enrique Iglesias in Colombo should be “whipped with toxic stingray tails” because it was “unciv
27 Dec 2015 11:09 PM
His urine sample was tested after the ICC originally found it contained banned substance...
25 Dec 2015 12:52 PM
The Sri Lankan government is set to move a resolution in Parliament next month to convert the House into a Constituent Assembly which will initiate the process of drafting a new Constitution and aboli
24 Dec 2015 2:38 AM
To set up special task force
22 Dec 2015 6:06 AM
A UN panel has said around 40,000 mainly Tamil civilians were killed in final months of...
21 Dec 2015 5:24 PM
Sri Lanka’s military is set to be modernised with assistance from militarily advanced nations such as India, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Sunday.
20 Dec 2015 11:08 PM
China had secured contracts to build highways, railroads and ports during Rajapakse
19 Dec 2015 3:54 PM
Some of those arrested persons had overstayed or given false information on their stay.
17 Dec 2015 2:51 PM
In an eleventh-hour reprieve, Saudi Arabia has agreed to retry a 45-year-old Sri Lankan housemaid sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, the government said on Tuesday.
09 Dec 2015 5:31 AM
In a landmark decision, the Sri Lankan police has been ordered to pay compensation for assaulting a group of students at a demonstration here, the first time they have been censured for violating inte
06 Dec 2015 6:03 AM
A Sri Lankan court on Friday sentenced a top police officer, his son and four other police personnel to death for the abduction and murder of a businessman in 2013.
28 Nov 2015 6:12 AM
A brother of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa has been formally named in a corruption case involving the transfer of state weapons, as the new government pushes ahead with its crackdown a
27 Nov 2015 12:03 AM
The United States has praised Sri Lanka’s new government for speeding up efforts towards reconciliation with ethnic minority Tamils after a separatist civil war which lasted nearly three decades and k
24 Nov 2015 10:47 PM
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has halved the number of Tamil diaspora groups banned by his predecessor for having links with the LTTE, as part of his efforts to reconcile with the ethnic m
23 Nov 2015 5:14 AM
Sri Lanka’s former Navy Chief on Saturday denied operating secret jails during the country’s 37-year ethnic war, local media reported, after United Nations’ experts urged an investigation into
21 Nov 2015 10:48 PM
Bravo's impressive all-round show sealed West Indies' 23-run win
12 Nov 2015 9:49 AM
In a setback to Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition, an influential minister on Monday resigned from the Cabinet for allegedly shielding a private security firm which is under probe for gun running and money
10 Nov 2015 5:14 AM