The Latest Breaking News from Sri Lanka

Tourism Minister of Sri Lanka Harin Fernado said China has made a lot of investment in Sri Lanka and has been “understanding its requirements in the past.”

Besides the the 21-year-old Madushanka, the squad also includes Ashen Bandara, who last represented Sri Lanka in July 2021 in a T20I against India.

NEW DELHI: Economist Jayati Ghosh said that 'basic needs' like nutrition, healthcare, housing and education, which the government should provide for its citizens, are not freebies, while asserting that the poor are more entitled to receive their basic needs.

Ex-Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa will reportedly leave Thailand to return to the island nation next week.

Sri Lanka will ask Japan to invite the Indian Ocean island's main creditor nations, including China and India, to talks on bilateral debt restructuring as it seeks a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades, its president said on Thursday.

Sri Lanka’s central bank chief says he is hopeful the crisis-ridden island nation can reach a preliminary agreement that could lead to a bailout package with the International Monetary Fund when officials from the financial institution visit Sri Lanka later this month

The island is preparing new packages such as the Murugan-Shiva Shakthi trails

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka/BEIJING -- As China's all-white Yuan Wang 5 research vessel slowly pulled into a dock at the southern Sri Lankan port of Hambantota on Tuesday morning, it was greeted by a group of Chinese residents holding a large banner that hailed the friendship between Beijing and Colombo. Sri…

Yuan Wang 5 is officially described as a ‘scientific research ship’ but India suspects it has military functions