Sinhalese people
Legend Sangakkara To Retire From First Class Cricket
Sri Lankan cricketing legend Kumar Sangakkara said Monday he will retire from first-class cricket at the end of the...
Sri Lanka Switches Foreign, Finance Ministers In Shake Up
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena announced his first cabinet reshuffle Monday, switching his finance and...
Sangakkara Picture Perfect With Another Lord’s Century
Not content with scoring one century at Lord's in a match where his portrait was unveiled in the Pavilion, Sri Lanka...
Sri Lanka To Demolish 10,000 Buildings After Collapse
Sri Lanka said Friday it will demolish an estimated 10,000 illegally built homes and offices in Colombo, a day after a...
India Calls For Deeper Ties With Sri Lanka As China Looms
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Friday his desire for a "quantum jump" in relations with Sri Lanka, as New...
Modi Heads To Sri Lanka As Chinese Influence Rises
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to Sri Lanka on Thursday on a charm offensive as New Delhi seeks to reassert...
Aravinda de Silva Quits Sri Lanka Cricket Role
Former Sri Lanka captain Aravinda de Silva has stepped down as chairman of the national board's cricket committee for...
Sri Lankan Embassies Sheltered Criminals
Sri Lanka's foreign minister on Friday accused the previous administration of using its embassies abroad as "safe...
Sri Lanka Ends Search For Garbage Survivors As Toll Hits 32
Sri Lanka on Wednesday ended the grim search for survivors five days after a huge garbage mountain collapsed onto a...
Hundreds Evacuated After Deadly Sri Lanka Dump Collapse
Sri Lanka has moved over 400 families to temporary shelters after tonnes of rotting garbage collapsed onto a slum on...
Hope Fades For Sri Lanka Missing, Garbage Toll Hits 21
Hopes of finding anyone alive under a collapsed mountain of garbage in Sri Lanka's capital faded Sunday as the death...
Sri Lanka Signals Arrests Over High-Profile Killings
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said Wednesday he would not protect anyone guilty of murder during the civil...
Sri Lanka Ex-Leader’s Brother Shifts Blame For Killings
The brother of Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapakse denied Tuesday involvement in war-era death squads,...
Sri Lanka Ex-Leader’s Brother ‘led Death Squad’
Former Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse's brother Gotabhaya directed a top-secret death squad which targeted...
Sri Lanka Risks Censure As President Falters On War Legacy
President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in Sri Lanka promising justice for war crimes, breaking from his hawkish...
Sri Lanka To Scale Back Port Deal With China
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is to scale back a profitable but controversial deal to sell a deep-sea port to a Chinese...
Sri Lanka To Honour $12 Bn Debt Despite Dispute
Sri Lanka Monday vowed to honour government bonds of up to 1,780 billion rupees ($11.86 billion) even as the central...
Sri Lanka Protest Over Chinese Investment Turns Ugly
Several people have been injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and...