Sri Lankan police officers belonging to the narcotics unit, in green jackets, stand next to a seized haul of narcotics at a fishery harbor in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on May 3, 2020. For years, authorities ...

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Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country earlier this week, has formally resigned, the parliamentary speaker confirmed Friday, capping off a chaotic 72-hours in the crisis-hit ...

In the wake of the April 21 bombings in Sri Lanka that killed about 250 people, the government there took the unusual step of blocking Facebook and other social media. In 2018, Sri Lanka did the same ...

Sri Lanka plunged into a political crisis in October 2018 when President Maithripala Sirisena suddenly and unexpectedly sacked the sitting prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, his former partner in ...

The first woman to be appointed as a deputy inspector general of police was removed from office just six months later. It was a moment worthy of celebration for women in Sri Lanka when Bimshani Jasin ...

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Chennai today, both United States and Indian officials will be eager to emphasize the robust commercial and people-to-people ties that increasingly bind ...

It's become a norm. A challenge here, a challenge there from Sri Lanka, but India somehow manage to drag past it and emerge as the more dominant and ruthless side, with them favourites to seal another ...

If you doubt things have shifted for Sri Lanka, please consider that before they had stepped on to the field in the Asia Cup match against Bangladesh on Saturday, they had decided to leave out their ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — For years, authorities in Sri Lanka have tried to rid the Indian Ocean island nation of illegal drugs, even attempting to lift a decades-old moratorium on the death penalty ...