An internal review of the final months of Sri Lanka's bloody civil war in 2009, set up by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, has concluded that the manner in which the world body handled the crisis in the country was "a grave failure" of the UN.
Sri Lankan police are still hunting for five prisoners who escaped last week during a prison riot in which 27 inmates died, officials said Tuesday.
A major riot at a prison in Sri Lanka's capital killed at least 27 inmates and injured 42 others, while police said today that they have arrested seven prisoners who had managed to escape.
A major riot at a prison in Sri Lanka's capital killed at least 27 inmates and injured 42 others, while police said on Saturday that they have arrested seven prisoners who had managed to escape.
The leader of Sri Lanka's defeated Tamil Tiger rebels, who is wanted by India over the assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi, will not face criminal charges, Sri Lankan authorities said yesterday.
India on Tuesday launched an ambitious Rs. 1,300 crore housing project in northern Sri Lanka to build brand new homes for about 43,000 ethnic Tamil families displaced due to the civil war in the country.
India today dismissed reports that its missiles targeted strategic Sri Lankan locations, by calling them "completely baseless and fabricated."
Hundreds of Muslims in Sri Lanka have protested against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States, calling for its creators to be hanged.
China has sought a comprehensive partnership with Sri Lanka that includes strengthening trade and investment ties, a top Chinese official said in Colombo.
Sri Lankan foreign minister GL Peiris on Monday urged Tamil Nadu politicians to be "objective and fair" in their assessment of his government's dealings with Tamils, saying human rights and the economic climate had improved since the end of the war in Tamil areas of the island nation.
The Sri Lankan government has issued a travel warning to Sri Lankans visiting southern India following a spate of incidents targeting Sri Lankan nationals, the external affairs ministry said on Tuesday.
Hitting back at critics, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said the snap elections called for three provincial councils next month would silence them.
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and requested him to mobilise other Tamil parties in the northern province besides the dominant TNA to achieve political reconciliation.
The Sri Lankan navy stopped a fishing trawler that was carrying 109 people trying to make the perilous and illegal migration to Australia.
Sri Lankan scientists have identified a new genus of fresh water fish and named it after the evolutionary biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins.