Prison guards opened fire on rioting inmates at Sri Lanka's main remand prison in the capital Colombo today, wounding nearly 20 inmates, officials said.
Sri Lanka plans to streamline the issuance of ‘on arrival’ visas for visitors, though Singaporean and Maldivian nationals would continue to enjoy the benefit.
The government has postponed crucial talks with Sri Lanka's main Tamil party TNA to find a solution to the political aspirations of the minority ethnic community after the end of a three-decade civil war in May 2009.
Sri Lanka wants to hire hangmen, a top government official said today after the country's only two executioners quit their jobs, leaving at least 800 convicts sitting on death row.
A presidential aide and a bodyguard were shot dead during Saturday's local council elections in Sri Lanka's capital in a contest seen as a mid-term test for President Mahinda Rajapakse, police said.
A Sri Lankan court was to deliver a verdict Friday on former army chief Sarath Fonseka, accused of inciting violence by alleging the president's brother ordered the execution of surrendering rebels.
A Sri Lankan court today jailed former army chief Sarath Fonseka for three years for alleging that the President's brother had ordered the execution of surrendering Tamil rebels.
Luxury tourist destination Maldives has been asked to stop forthwith public flogging of women found guilty of extra-marital sex.
A report on the three-decade-long ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka was Friday presented to parliament, making it a public document, an official said.
External affairs minister S M Krishna today met Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo and is understood to have discussed a host of bilateral issues, including the ways to evolve a political solution to resolve the Tamil problem.
India today encouraged Sri Lanka to implement findings of a probe into the island's bloody civil war as a way to improve ethnic relations after decades of bloodshed.
India’s external affairs minister SM Krishna today unveiled the first phase of a railway project in southern Sri Lanka that is being built with financial aid from the Indian government.
As part of its efforts to assist Sri Lanka in developing human resources, India today announced a massive expansion of its educational assistance provided to students in this country at a cost of Rs 100 crore by increasing slots in various academic courses.
A joint exercise of Sri Lankan and Indian naval forces started on Sunday in the eastern seas off Trincomalee to enhance interoperability of the two navies.
A Sri Lankan Air Force plane on Sunday landed under emergency conditions at the Anna International Airport here following a technical fault, airport officials said.