External minister S M Krishna arrives here on Thrusday on a four day official visit to boost up bilateral relations, amid growing Chinese footprints in Sri Lanka.

A new 49-member Sri Lankan Cabinet was sworn on Monday, heralding the second six-year term of President Mahinda Rajapaksa who retained the key portfolios of defence and finance.

Sri Lanka's president expanded his cabinet on Monday, retaining key positions for himself while adding 12 new ministers ahead of the presentation of the first budget of his second term, officials said

Sri Lanka's government has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to close its offices in the island's former war zone, the Geneva-based humanitarian agency said on Sunday.

Defence and economic cooperation between the two countries will be the key subjects of discussion when Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari makes his maiden visit to Sri Lanka later this week.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse was sworn in Friday for a second six-year term by Chief Justice Asoka de Silva at a nationally televised ceremony outside his seafront office.

Sri Lanka on Friday rejected as "lies" new photographs broadcast by Al-Jazeera of piles of dead bodies and execution-style killings allegedly taken during the final stages of the island's ethnic war.

The government will indict some 1,000 former LTTE cadres in custody on charges of involvement in terrorism during the nearly three decades ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka that came to an end last May.

Sri Lanka's former Army chief Sarath Fonseka has been moved to a prison where he is expected to serve his 30-year sentence that was ratified by the President, even as the Opposition termed his incarce

Almost 265,000 displaced Tamil civilians who had fled Sri Lanka's war zone in 2009 have been resettled in their villages, leaving only five refugee centres operational in northern areas, an official s