Sri Lanka

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will travel to India on an official visit from July 20-21 for talks with the country's top leadership to further advance and consolidate the long-standing bilateral relations between the…

Colombo: The IMF has expressed hope that Sri Lanka's debt restructuring process would be completed by September, which is also the time for the global lender's formal review of the bailout facility it extended to the cash-strapped nation, a…

Colombo: A technical committee appointed by the minister of sports will be probing the reasons behind Sri Lanka's failure to win automatic qualification for the ODI World Cup to be held in India later this year. Sri Lanka failed to…

Colombo: Sri Lanka has dismissed the claims that LTTE Chief Prabhakaran was alive. "It is confirmed that he was killed on 19 May 2009. The DNA has proved it," said Colonel Nalin Herath, Sri Lanka's defence ministry spokesperson.…

Colombo: China has given debt-ridden Sri Lanka the financing assurances required by the IMF to unlock a USD 2.9 billion bailout package for the country, days after India strongly backed the island nation's efforts to secure the loan from…

Colombo: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar announced on Friday that India has given the required assurances to debt-ridden Sri Lanka for the much-needed IMF bailout package, becoming the first major lender to publicly back the island…

Rajkot:  Along with Suryakumar Yadav's brilliant batting and lethal bowling of Indian youngsters, Team India registered victory by 91 runs at Rajkot in the 3rd T20I against Sri Lanka, thereby clinching the series 2-1. Chasing a target of…

Rajkot: Suryakumar Yadav today dominated the India-Sri Lanka T20 match at Rajkot with unbeaten century that powered India to a mammoth total of 228/5. After completing his fifty 26 balls, Suryakumar took only 19 deliveries to reach the…

Colombo: Sri Lanka will resume flights from the northern Jaffna peninsula to Chennai by next week, a senior minister has said, a move that will help the cash-strapped country's tourism sector and provide a fillip to its beleaguered economy.…

Colombo: The United Nations team in Sri Lanka and non-governmental organisations on Tuesday revised and extended their joint Humanitarian Needs and Priorities (HNP) plan, which aims to provide life-saving assistance to 3.4 million people…