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SL on top despite Bravo knock

Nov. 25: Part-time spinner Tillakaratne Dilshan bagged two wickets in one over in fading light to boost Sri Lanka’s hopes of gaining the lead in the second Test against the West Indies on Thursday. Th

Rajapaksa unveils new Sri Lankan Cabinet

Colombo: Sri Lanka's powerful President Mahinda Rajapaksa today unveiled an expanded 59-member Cabinet for his second six-year term as he kept with himself the key Defence and Finance portfolios and r

Sri Lanka orders Red Cross to quit former war zone

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.

Sri Lanka rejects disturbing new 'war pictures' as lies

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.

Sri Lanka pip India to second place in ODI rankings

Dubai: Sri Lanka, fresh from a series victory against Australia, have overtaken India to bag second place in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) one-day rankings.

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15 fishermen injured in attack by Lankan Navy

Around 15 Indian fishermen were injured when they were allegedly attacked by Sri Lankan naval personnel in mid sea near the International Maritime Border Line early on Tuesday morning, Tamil Nadu coas

BCCI rubbishes talk of Raina accompanying bookie-linked woman

New Delhi: The Cricket Board today described an English newspaper report of BCCI keeping quiet on Suresh Raina accompanying a woman allegedly linked to bookies during the Sri Lankan tour as 'baseless'

Fonseka moved to prison to serve sentence

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

Sri Lanka court frees Fonseka's aides

The magistrate's court of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo ordered the release of four aides of former Army chief Sarath Fonseka who was convicted of corruption and conspiring to topple the country's go

No Lankan player has link with any bookie: Sangakkara

Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara on Friday rubbished media reports that Tilakaratne Dilshan was under the ICC scanner for his alleged links with bookmakers and said none of his team-mates were susp

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