Tag: Sri Lanka

Twenty-two monks have been arrested at an airport in Sri Lanka after officials discovered 110kg (242lbs) of cannabis concealed in ...

Sri Lanka has set up a special operations committee to manage a worsening drinking water shortage, as prolonged dry weather ...

Sri Lanka has declared every Wednesday a holiday for public institutions to conserve fuel as the island nation grapples with ...

Torrential rains have triggered floods and landslides across parts of southern Asia, killing about 600 people. Monsoon rain exacerbated by ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a leftist politician, is leading Sri Lanka's presidential election, but is still not close to the 50% ...

Seven people have been killed and 21 injured after a race car ploughed into spectators at a motor event in ...

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has told the military to do "whatever is necessary to restore order" after protesters ...

Protesters have said they will continue to occupy the Sri Lankan presidential and prime ministerial residences until both leaders officially ...

Sri Lanka's beleaguered President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in Colombo Saturday, a top defence source told AFP, before ...

A chemical-laden cargo ship is sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka, sparking fears of an environmental disaster. The Singapore-registered ...

Sri Lanka's former wartime defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa has won a presidential election that has split the country along ethnic ...

Sri Lanka has partially lifted an overnight curfew imposed nationwide after the worst bout of anti-Muslim violence since the deadly ...

Sri Lanka has banned face coverings in public, following a spate of suicide attacks on Easter Sunday that killed at ...

Sri Lanka has revised down the death toll from last Sunday's wave of bombings by more than 100, to "about ...

Sri Lanka has admitted a "major intelligence lapse" before the Easter Sunday bomb attacks which killed 359 people and wounded ...