Sri Lanka's cricket board on Monday named Sanath Jayasuriya as the national team's head coach until the end of the Twenty20 World Cup in 2026. Sri Lanka are building a robust all-round Twenty20 ...

The Sri Lanka Development Update (SLDU) has two main aims. First, it reports on key developments over the past 12 months in Sri Lanka’s economy, places these in longer term and global contexts, and ...

(1.) Born on March 6, 1970, the NPP parliamentarian is the 16th prime minister of Sri Lanka, and the third woman to reach that office (after Sirimavo Bandarnaike and Chandrika Kumartunga ...

Six wickets from Nishan Peiris lead Sri Lanka to a win by an innings and 154 runs in the second Test at Galle. Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis enters the record books with a century in the second ...

National People’s Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake seems set to become Sri Lanka’s ninth executive president on Sunday (September 22, 2024) with an impressive show in the ...

Sri Lanka, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Pathum Kerner, a 42-year-old physician who was among the first Sri Lankans to join the public uprising that ended President Gotabaya ...

Sri Lanka elections result 2024 Highlights: Left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake became the President of Sri Lanka on Sunday following a historic run-off election. The National People’s Power ...

A woman supporter of Sri Lankan President and independent presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe, holds a placard at an election rally in Minuwangoda, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP ...

India, who are staring at a drawn Kanpur Test against Bangladesh, have been left in a precarious spot after Sri Lanka's series win against New Zealand. Sri Lanka jumped to third position in WTC ...

Leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake emerged victorious in Sri Lanka’s presidential race on Sunday (September 22, 2024), obtaining a mandate that signals a clean break from the island nation ...

We are a vote of hope," he tells the crowd. The presidential election is a pivotal moment in Sri Lanka's political and economic history, and is the first electoral process taking place after the ...

Voting started at 7 a.m. (0130 GMT) and ends at 4 p.m. (1030 GMT), with counting scheduled to start shortly after. This is the first election since Sri Lanka’s economy buckled in 2022 under a severe ...