Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Sri Lanka

Australia pick Swepson for Sri Lanka spin battle

Galle (Sri Lanka) (AFP) - Australia's Mitchell Swepson will play the opening Test against Sri Lanka, with touring skipper Pat Cummins on Tuesday calling the leg-spinner an "important cog" in their bowling attack.

AFP

Bankrupt Sri Lanka opens oil market to foreign firms

Colombo (AFP) - Cash-strapped Sri Lanka announced Tuesday it was opening its oil market to foreign competition, a day after chronic fuel shortages forced a nationwide halt to petrol and diesel sales.

AFP

Spinner Radha Yadav moves up in Women’s T20 rankings

Smriti Mandhana (fourth), Jemimah Rodrigues (14th) and captain Harmanpreet Kaur (18th) have retained their places in the batting list.

The Hindu

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Editorial: California has a chance to lead the nation on cutting plastic trash. If we don’t blow it

The last few years have seen one distressing news story after another about the scourge of plastic waste: Single-use plastic packaging dumped in the ocean is killing sea animals who mistake it for food. Elephants in Sri Lanka are dying after ingesting plastic trash piled up in open-air landfills. Discarded…

Los Angeles Times

Sri Lanka rushes to find fuel as shortages hit schools, workers

A Sri Lankan government minister was in Qatar on Tuesday and another will travel to Russia at the weekend in search of energy deals to alleviate a severe fuel shortage that is crippling the economy of the island nation and forcing many schools to close.

Reuters

Cricket: 'Sri Lanka deserved this win', says India skipper Harmanpreet after loss in 3rd T20I

After facing a defeat in the third T20I against Sri Lanka, India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur lauded her rivals and said that they deserved to win. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Sri Lanka suspends fuel sales as economic crisis worsens

Colombo (AFP) - Cash-strapped Sri Lanka announced a two-week halt to all fuel sales except for essential services starting Monday and called for a partial shutdown as its unprecedented economic crisis deepened.

AFP

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Sri Lanka Stops Fuel Supply to Non-essential Services as Crisis Worsens

Sri Lanka will shut schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday, a minister said, in a desperate attempt to deal with a severe shortage. Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis, with foreign exchange reserves at…

Asharq Al-Awsat

We’re on right track, says India women’s coach Ramesh Powar

India women defeated Sri Lanka women 2-1 in three match T20I series

The Hindu

Sri Lanka electricity firm seeks 835% price rise

Colombo (AFP) - Sri Lanka's heavily loss-making state-run electricity monopoly asked for a shocking price rise of over 800 percent for its poorest customers with the bankrupt nation out of fuel, regulators said Monday.

AFP

Shafali’s bowling, Yastika’s keeping give team more options: Ramesh Powar

Coach Ramesh Powar believes the batting is on the right track

The Hindu

Record-breaking Chamari denies India clean sweep as SL win final T20I

Sri Lanka made two changes to their squad while Indian team goes unchanged

The Hindu

Holland on verge of Test return in Galle

Australia could hand Jon Holland a shock recall to Test cricket if he recovers from a finger injury in time for the series opener against Sri Lanka in Galle.

AAP

Sri Lanka stops fuel supply to non-essential services as crisis worsens

Reuters

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka sends 2 ministers to Russia for oil amid crisis

Sri Lanka is sending two ministers to Russia to negotiate for fuel, a necessity that the Indian ocean island nation has almost run out of amid its ongoing economic crisis

AFP

Sri Lanka turn to spin in bid to inflict more pain on Australia

Galle (Sri Lanka) (AFP) - Sri Lanka are looking to inflict more pain on injury-hit Australia when the first match of a two-Test series starts on what looks certain to be a turning wicket in Galle on Wednesday.

The Hindu

India women eye series sweep against Sri Lanka

The team had thrashed the home team by 34 runs in the opening T20 and then followed it up with a dominating five-wicket win in the second game

Daily Mirror

Ex-England coach Chris Silverwood to draw on horror Ashes as he faces Australia again

Chris Silverwood is preparing to coach Sri Lanka in a two Test series against Australia, less than six months after a 4-0 defeat to Australia in the Ashes cost him his job with England

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reuters

Sri Lanka struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies - minister

Sri Lanka is struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies, a top government minister said on Sunday, as the crisis-hit country of 22 million people is down to just 15,000 tons of petrol and diesel to keep essential services running in the coming days.

AFP

Bankrupt Sri Lanka seeks discounted Russian oil

Colombo (AFP) - Cash-strapped Sri Lanka on Sunday announced sending ministers to Russia and Qatar to try and secure cheap oil a day after the government said it had all but run out of fuel.

The Independent UK

Senior US officials visit Sri Lanka to help resolve crisis

Senior U.S. officials have arrived in Sri Lanka to find ways to help the island nation in the throes of an unprecedented economic crisis and severe shortages of essential supplies

The Hindu

In Frames | Troubled waters

The economic crisis in Sri Lanka is forcing families to risk a boat ride through choppy seas to Tamil Nadu

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sri Lanka Hikes Fuel Prices as US Delegation Arrives

Sri Lanka hiked fuel prices on Sunday, creating further pain for ordinary people as officials from the United States arrived for talks aimed at alleviating the island's dire economic crisis. Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said it raised the price of diesel, used widely in public transport, by 15 percent to…

AFP

Sri Lanka hikes fuel prices as US delegation arrives

Colombo (AFP) - Sri Lanka hiked fuel prices on Sunday, creating further pain for ordinary people as officials from the United States arrived for talks aimed at alleviating the island's dire economic crisis.

The Guardian - AU

Sri Lanka almost out of fuel, with no fresh supplies in sight

Bankrupt nation’s energy minister apologises to motorists but unable to say when petrol and diesel imports will be restored

1 … 94 95 96 97

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

International Monetary Fund

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.