The Latest Breaking News from Sri Lanka

Explore the struggles of Sri Lanka's plantation workers and their hopes for change in the upcoming election.

NEW DELHI: Former Sri Lanka wicketkeeper-batsman Duleep Mendis etched his name into Test cricket history with a rare feat—scoring identical centuries in both innings of a Test match. Facing Sunil Gavaskar's India in September 1982 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Madras (now Chennai), Mendis scored 105 runs in the…

His party, the JVP, twice fought violent battles to overthrow the very Sri Lankan state that he now wants to run.

The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest the presidential election next week

NEW DELHI: On a memorable day in September 2023, exactly a year ago, Rohit Sharma surpassed Sachin Tendulkar's ODI record with a six during an Asia Cup match against Sri Lanka.

CHENNAI: Hosts India received a tough fight from neighbours Sri Lanka as both won three gold medals each on the opening day of the junior South Asian Athletics Championship (SAAC) on Wednesday.

In the last two years, Afghanistan have taken the cricketing world by storm. The Afghan Atalans, as the team is called, reached the semifinals of the 2024 T20 World Cup. A year back at the 2023 ODI World Cup, they beat the defending champs England, and former World Cup winners…

Football and rugby fans don’t know how lucky they are, avoiding the ‘constant challenge’ of easily satisfying an obsession

The backbone of the economy, Sri Lanka's tea pickers are determined to use their powerful vote to choose a president this month who will change grim working conditions for good.