May 9 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (right)shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi outside the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo during the latter’s visit to Sri Lanka ...

The archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka, announced this week that the 167 Catholics killed in the Sri Lanka Easter Sunday bombings in 2019 will be included on the list of “Witnesses of Faith ...

For our first night in Sri Lanka we stayed in Negombo, my husband Joe’s home town and a bustling city close to the airport, known as “Water Colombo” in Tamil. With a lagoon, a beach front, and a mass ...

For decades, Sri Lanka has lived in the shadow of its big-brother neighbour, India. It has also had its fair share of strife, wars, coups, crises and change of heads. But all of that instability ...

The Sri Lanka Development Update (SLDU) has two main aims. First, it reports on key developments over the past 12 months in Sri Lanka’s economy, places these in longer term and global contexts, and ...

The death of 25-year-old Sathsara Nimesh has triggered protests and accusations of police brutality in Sri Lanka. Nimesh's mother believes he was beaten to death. Sathsara Nimesh is not the first ...

In September 2000, an Mi-17 helicopter crashed in central Sri Lanka, killing all 15 people on board - including the country’s then top Muslim political leader - making it the worst helicopter ...

The port in Sri Lanka’s Tamil-dominated northern province is close to the Indian coastline and is being “rehabilitated” with a $61.5 million grant assistance from India.

Milinda Moragoda, Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, met with Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, over a luncheon meeting held at the Ambassador’s residence to discuss ways of further ...

In a rare and a prestigious honour in the world of biological sciences, a newly discovered species of bronzeback snake has been named after one of Sri Lanka’s foremost herpetologists, Dr. A. A. Thasun ...

Amid persisting questions from the political Opposition and media about Sri Lanka’s recent defence sector Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India, the government has asked those seeking ...