Sri Lanka's World Cup-winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga's tenure as the head of the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) came to be short-lived because of his opposition to IPL, a report here has claimed.

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Muslims of areas around eastern Sri Lanka are taking part in mass protests following threats to demolish and relocate a mosque in the central town of Dambulla.

The Hairiya Jumma Mosque in Dambulla i

The choice of vehicle was almost inevitable. While describing his terrifying abduction ordeal in Sri Lanka, political activist Premakumar Gunaratnam said his captors came in a white van.

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Sri Lanka will install meters in Colombo's public places to measure blood pressure of people, in a country where at least 350 die every day due to heart attacks, hypertension and respiratory diseases.

A Sri Lankan minister has threatened to take some 5,000 fishermen to India to protest against poaching by Indian fishermen in Sri Lankan waters.

Government Minister Douglas Devananda said he will lea

Sri Lankan government said on Monday that a disputed mosque in a north central town would be re-located within six months following protests by the Buddhist majority, but Muslim leaders said the matte

An Indian parliamentary delegation on Saturday asked Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to speed up reconciliation with the Tamil minority in the island “with a sense of urgency” and take steps to

An Indian parliamentary delegation on Saturday asked Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse to speed up reconciliation with the Tamil minority in the island “with a sense of urgency” and take steps to

Sri Lanka's president has rejected a call by Indian legislators to withdraw soldiers from the island's former war zone in the north where minority Tamils are concentrated, his spokesman said on Sunday

Thousands of Buddhist monks and their supporters stormed a mosque in Sri Lanka's north central town of Dambulla to protest its construction in an area designated as a Buddhist sacred zone.

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