Sri Lanka’s struggles with a list of injuries to leading players continue with seven probables, who could feature in the upcoming tour to the Caribbean, sidelined from the ongoing Inter-Provincial tournament. Several prominent players including Angelo Mathews and Suranga Lakmal, captains of Kandy …
Knowing that this was his one chance to prove to the world that he is the next big thing in martial arts, 32-year-old Sudarshana Deshappriya set up on the Sri Lanka’s Got Talent stage with his bricks and roof tiles. He proceeded to show his strength by breaking the tiles on his flexed arms, all while doing …
I was in Sri Lanka when the news of the racial riots in the district of Kandy broke. The magnitude of the attacks came as a shock. Needless to say that this shattered my sense of safety and security. I was in Kandy, miles from Digana and Teldeniya, eng…
In a special ceremony held today at Nonagama Cultural Centre in Ambalantota in Hambantota District, Mahinda Amaraweera, Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development, and Taranjit Singh Sandhu, High Commissioner of India, jointly launched a p…
In 2017, Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health saw 186,101 cases, about 3 1/2 times the number of cases reported in 2016. In the first three months of 2018, health officials reported 14,627 dengue cases, less than half of 33, 191 cases reported during the same period last year. Approximately 31.7% of dengue …
COLOMBO, April 9 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan share index on Monday touched its lowest close in 11 weeks, pulled down by blue-chips stocks in a moderate turnover, as many market participants were on leave ahead of the traditional Sinhala-Tamil New Year this …
COLOMBO, April 9 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka and China in the past five years have made significant progress in jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative in the island country through which the country’s economy has greatly benefited, said Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka. Chinese Ambassador Cheng …
COLOMBO, April 9 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee ended marginally weaker on Monday on dollar demand for oil and vehicle imports, but the local currency is expected to bounce back on inflows from inward remittances ahead of the traditional festival thi…
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This is the heartwarming moment a baby elephant was rescued from a well after it toppled in while trying get a drink of water. The four-month-old calf cries for help were noticed by locals who found the baby in a six-feet deep well in Ampara in the Eas…