COLOMBO:Sri Lanka's navy Sunday recovered the body of a sailor who drowned during a parade marking the fourth anniversary of the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels, an official said. The body was found near a beach inColombowhere his small boat capsized while taking part in the victory celebrations ...

  COLOMBO: At least seven people have been killed and two are missing in floods and mudslides following heavy rain acrossSri Lanka, the disaster management centre said Wednesday. A tropical cyclone east of the island did not make landfall but caused unusually heavy rain in the past two days ...

COLOMBOSri Lanka on Thursday recalled left-arm seamer Chanaka Welegedara for next month's Champions Trophy in England, but kept unorthodox spinner Ajantha Mendis out of the 15-man squad. Welegedara, 32, played the last of his 10 one-day internationals in 2010 and was forced to return home from the ...

islamabad - The fifth Technical Level Meeting on Pakistan-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (PSFTA) was held in Islamabad from April 29-30, 2013 wherein both the countries emphasised upon the need to enhance the existing level of trade and commerce through greater interaction.The meeting was ...

COLOMBO : The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka Qasim Qureshi visited Galle District of the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. During the visit to Galle, the High Commissioner participated in a meeting with the officials of the Galle District Chamber of Commerce & Industry.  The ...

With DMK President M. Karunanidhi’s decision to quit both the Union Cabinet and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the political environment in India has taken another turn. The anti-Sri Lanka sentiment has grown stronger. He has argued that continuing in the government and ...

TARIQ A AL MAEENAThe undercurrent of racial tensions sweeping through Sri Lanka is gaining momentum. Unchecked and unrestrained by a government appearing to give in to their divisive demands, the terrorist Buddhist group, the Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist Power Force), is threatening to turn the island ...

COLOMBO  - Gunmen opened fire and torched the office of the main Tamil newspaper in northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, police said, the latest in a string of attacks on the nation's privately owned media.Three men staged the pre-dawn arson attack on the Uthayan newspaper's office and printing ...

BANGALORE  - Mahela Jaywardene, Rangana Herath and Ajantha Mendis were included in Sri Lanka’s 30-man preliminary squad for the ICC Champions Trophy 2013, after being rested from the drawn One-Day International series against Bangladesh in March.The selection committee headed by Sanath ...

COLOMBO  - Sri Lanka have named five uncapped players in their provisional 30-man squad for the ICC Champions trophy in England and Wales in June.The squad includes batsmen Kithuruwan Vithanage, Angelo Perera and Shehan Jayasuriya, fast bowler Ishara Jayaratne and spinner Milinda ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's main Tamil party Sunday accused a pro-government mob of attacking them in the island's north as racial tensions rose after Buddhist extremists smashed a Muslim-owned business.The opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said their meeting in the town of Kilinochchi on ...

PALLEKELE - Whatever happens on Sunday night, Sri Lanka will look back on this tour and feel it has not gone as they would have liked. Bangladesh had never taken a Test to the fifth day in Sri Lanka, but they bettered even that achievement by keeping the hosts to a draw. Sri Lanka were made to ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's navy on Sunday rescued 138 Bangladeshis and Myanmar nationals from a sinking fishing vessel off the island's east coast, officials said. One passenger was found dead while many of the 138 plucked from the boat were dehydrated, said navy spokesman Kosala Warnakulasuriya, ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka has blocked entry of a London-based group of lawyers who planned to probe the controversial impeachment of the island's chief justice, the International Bar Association said on Saturday. The group expressed "serious concern" over the withdrawal of visas for the Human ...

MELBOURNE - Thisara Perera was the difference with the bat and then held his nerve, although only barely, with the ball to seal a two-run victory off the final delivery of a rain-reduced chase. In a heated finale, Glenn Maxwell needed four runs from the last ball for victory and was frustrated by a ...

COLOMBO  - Sri Lanka’s president Sunday urged nationalist Buddhist monks not to incite religious hatred and violence as he moved to stem a wave of attacks targeting minority Muslims. President Mahinda Rajapakse met with monks with the group known as “Bodu Bala Sena”, or ...

Phil Hughes returned to form with a century before Xavier Doherty and Moises Henriques took three wickets each to lead Australia to a series-levelling 32-run win over Sri Lanka in the final one-day cricket international on Wednesday.Hughes struck 138 not out at Bellerive Oval but Sri Lanka were on ...

SYDNEY- Just as the Test series between these two teams was decided with one match still to play, the one-day battle could be done and dusted before the teams fly to Hobart for the fifth and final game. Through outstanding swing bowling over the past two matches in Adelaide and Brisbane, Sri Lanka ...

COLOMBO  - International criticism mounted Saturday over a move to impeach Sri Lanka's top judge, with the island's leader urged to not ratify the sacking amid a deepening standoff between the government and judiciary.Britain added its voice to the United States in expressing deep concern over ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka intends to ask for another loan from the IMF of $1 billion after foreign investments in infrastructure failed to materialise in the formerly war-torn island, a top official said Friday.The government will discuss borrowing another billion dollars from the International Monetary ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court said on Thursday parliament does not have the legal authority to investigate accusations of misconduct against senior judges and an impeachment proceeding against the chief justice was against the law.The government and Supreme Court have been at ...

COLOMBO - Police in Sri Lanka arrested at least 114 Chinese nationals over an alleged Internet currency fraud, during a string of raids in and around Colombo, officials said on Saturday. The arrests were made after Chinese police sought assistance from their Sri Lankan counterparts in cracking the ...

HOBART  - Sri Lanka are putting their faith in the remnants of their "golden generation" as they target their first ever Test win in Australia in the three-match series starting on Friday.Thirty-somethings Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Thilan Samaraweera, who ...

COLIOMBO - After the defeat in the P Sara Test to New Zealand Graham Ford, the Sri Lanka coach, has said his team had to improve on their batting against pace ahead of the three-Test series in Australia. "I was hoping that we would have a very good Test series against New Zealand which would be a ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s health ministry announced plans on Tuesday to draw up new guidelines for donating food to the country’s venerated Buddhist monks amid concerns about their weight and health. The ministry said the faithful, who offer alms as a religious tradition, tended to give ...

COLOMBO  - Sri Lanka's supreme court asked parliament on Thursday to suspend a hearing against the country's top judge for alleged financial wrongdoing until the legality of the impeachment process is decided. A three-judge bench declined to issue a formal injunction against an 11-member ...

LONDON  - British sports journalist Ed Hawkins seems to have opened a can of worms in his new book titled 'Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy'.The startling suggestion that a bookie correctly predicted the way the Pakistan innings would unfold in the crucial 2011 World Cup semi-final against India in ...

KARACHI - Abdul Baiz, Chairman of Puttalam Urban Council of Sri Lanka has conveyed compliments to President KCCI to promote Pak-Sri Lanka bilateral trade during his visit to Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He informed that delegation was visiting on the invitation from Administrator of ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's main opposition party Sunday demanded an independent inquiry into a prison riot that left 27 convicts dead, alleging many were shot by security forces in a cold-blooded "massacre". The United National Party (UNP) called for a parliamentary investigation into the riot that ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - Hundreds of Sri Lankan lawyers took to the streets of Colombo on Monday protesting against a government move to impeach the country’s top judge in an increasingly bitter dispute. Lawyers marched from the Supreme Court to the city centre denouncing efforts by President Mahinda ...