Sri Lanka

Colombo: Mohammed Siraj produced a magical spell, 6 for 21, to decimate Sri Lanka for 50, and place India on the brink of a victory in the Asia Cup final here on Sunday. Sri Lanka elected to bat first after winning the toss, despite…

Colombo: An all-round performance from team India helped them beat hosts Sri Lanka by 41 runs in their Asia Cup Super 4 match at R. Premadasa stadium in Colombo on Tuesday (September 12). A win over Sri Lanka assured India a place in the…

The International Monetary Fund is expected to conduct the first review of it’s $2.9 billion bailout to Sri Lanka in September. Sri Lanka’s Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said on Saturday the IMF will be conducting the…

Colombo: Indian naval ship ‘Khanjar’, an indigenously-built Missile Corvette of the Khukri class, arrived in Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee on Saturday for a three-day visit to enhance the close ties and interoperability between…

Colombo: Sri Lanka is considering the possibility of allowing the usage of the Indian rupee for local transactions just like the dollar, euro and yen to facilitate Indian tourists and businessmen, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said on…

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will travel to India on an official visit from July 20-21 for talks with the country's top leadership to further advance and consolidate the long-standing bilateral relations between the…

Colombo: The IMF has expressed hope that Sri Lanka's debt restructuring process would be completed by September, which is also the time for the global lender's formal review of the bailout facility it extended to the cash-strapped nation, a…

Colombo: A technical committee appointed by the minister of sports will be probing the reasons behind Sri Lanka's failure to win automatic qualification for the ODI World Cup to be held in India later this year. Sri Lanka failed to…

Colombo: Sri Lanka has dismissed the claims that LTTE Chief Prabhakaran was alive. "It is confirmed that he was killed on 19 May 2009. The DNA has proved it," said Colonel Nalin Herath, Sri Lanka's defence ministry spokesperson.…

Colombo: China has given debt-ridden Sri Lanka the financing assurances required by the IMF to unlock a USD 2.9 billion bailout package for the country, days after India strongly backed the island nation's efforts to secure the loan from…