A total of 234 Tamil prisoners in Sri Lanka, most of them former Tamil Tiger rebels, are on a hunger strike the past five days here, said officials on Monday.

Inmates of three prisons, located in Col

Sri Lanka's ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka was released from prison on Monday after he was jailed following his unsuccessful bid to unseat the president in 2010, and vowed to ‘save’ the country.

"I am

Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse has ordered the release of his jailed electoral rival, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, the presidential spokesman said Sunday.

The former four-star general will

Sri Lanka will conduct investigations into the allegations of war abuses, its Foreign Minister said while presenting a detailed reconciliation plan of the island to the US.

The visiting Sri Lankan Fo

Pakistan's newly-appointed Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez believes his players face a tough challenge against Sri Lanka in the coming series as they have been deprived of an opportunity to enhance t

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday rejected international calls to withdraw troops from the country's former warzones, warning that LTTE diaspora had not given up separatism.

"Some a

Jailed former Sri Lankan Army Chief Sarath Fonseka was on Friday granted bail by the High Court here in a case for harbouring military deserters, ahead of an imminent presidential pardon for him.

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A Sri Lankan woman bit off the penis of her 30-year-old lover during a row on Friday, a doctor said, as police investigated two other incidents.

The man was rushed to a rural hospital in Andapana, 18

Two years after the decisive battle in which the Tamil Tigers were vanquished, Sri Lankan security forces made their biggest-ever haul recovering 6,250 kgs of hidden LTTE explosives.

The arms cache

Dozens of Buddhists led by monks joined a demonstration on Monday urging Sri Lanka's government to proceed with plans to dismantle a mosque located in a sacred Buddhist area.

The protesters marched