Sri Lankan police have arrested a retired intelligence chief on suspicion of conspiring with terrorists who committed a wave of bombings that killed 279 people.

Last Saturday, the Sri Lankan defence ministry deployed police and the army to evict 45 families from central Colombo and demolish their houses. Over recent days, police also have been mobilised to ...

Sri Lankan legislators overwhelmingly voted to scrap their pensions, as the ruling Marxist-leaning government delivers a key ...

The Sri Lankan government is moving to speed up the military-supervised eviction of thousands of poor families who live in Colombo’s slums. On June 28, divisional secretariats were ordered to provide ...

Sri Lankan legislators have overwhelmingly voted to scrap their pensions, as the Marxist-leaning government fulfills a key campaign promise. The vote Tuesday was 154-2.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Colombo on Friday for a three-day visit to Sri Lanka, where he is expected to hold bilateral talks and oversee the signing of key agreements in the energy, ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan police arrested three people, and seized 21 locally made grenades and six swords, during a raid in Colombo, a police spokesman said on Thursday. He did not give further ...

In many ways, Colombo lives up to South Asian expectations. If hailing a tuk-tuk off the street, the tourist price is 1,000 rupees (€2.70). If the Uber app comes out instead, the same driver accepts ...

Flying into Beijing, Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena seemed to hold the key to an important part of China’s latest dream, the so-called Silk Road plan. China desperately wanted him to lift ...

There’s a new anthem now, of course, but you still have to stand up. Then you get the trailers for "Coming" movies (no rash promises as to when, precisely); a price-list for the seats you’re already ...

Tens of thousands of Indian and Pakistani fans have converged on Colombo for the high-voltage India-Pakistan clash, turning ...

The carrier expects Indian passenger traffic to Sri Lanks to rise by up to 12 percent in 2026, driven by the T20 world cup and higher flights between the two countries.