Sri Lanka is among the closest foreign countries we have, and historically, we have been very involved with it. If the Cholas conquered it, the Lankan kings aligned with the Pandyas and later joined ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe made history in Sri Lanka by becoming the first ever ex-president to be arrested. He is facing charges for alleged misuse of public funds. The arrest of former Sri Lankan ...

Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, recently jailed and charged with misusing government funds, was admitted to the ICU due to severe dehydration and pre-existing conditions like ...

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara takes part in a training session in Guyana on May 2. Sri Lanka stopped Sangakkara and another player from calling on the Dalai Lama ...

Aug. 22 (UPI) --Sri Lanka's former president was arrested Friday for the alleged misuse of public funds, police said. Ranil Wickremesinghe was arrested in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capitol, while giving ...

Fifteen people have been killed in Sri Lanka after a passenger bus veered off a 1,000ft cliff. A further 16 people have been injured, including five children, a police spokesman said. The crash took ...

Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested and appeared in court over allegations he misused state funds while in office, police say. Wickremesinghe, 76, who led the country ...

An infant’s feeding bottle is among the items found at the Chemmani mass grave site in Sri Lanka’s Jaffna peninsula. Credit: X/Tamil Genocide Education Project Ongoing excavations at the mass grave ...

The ex-leader, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was arrested amid government investigations into widespread bribery and graft. By Pamodi Waravita and Anupreeta Das A former Sri Lankan president who helped to ...

Sri Lanka is attempting to sustain economic growth while maintaining macroeconomic stability under the IMF program it began in 2016. The government's high debt payments and bloated civil service, ...

Sri Lanka’s former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested over alleged misuse of state funds for personal travel, police said. Wickremesinghe, 76, who served as president from 2022 to 2024 ...