The 10-day public exhibition of the sacred tooth relic which commenced on April 18 after a respite of 16 years ends today.

Watching this ritual (that used to be so familiar for me in my childhood and youth) from abroad I couldn’t help my eyes filling with tears, feeling kind of homesick, in spite of me having spent more ...

As students in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad protested the felling of a forested area for development, footage of a ...

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Colombo (AFP) - Sri Lanka is to deploy game wardens to stop wild elephants straying onto the pitch when the country hosts Zimbabwe for a series of one-day internationals at the Hambantota stadium.

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...

Buddhists flocking to see a sacred tooth in Sri Lanka were urged by authorities to stay away on Thursday after four people died and hundreds fell sick while in lengthy queues. Regional police ...

The destruction of human and elephant lives, and property has continued unabated over five years, according to data from wildlife authorities. Electrocution has become the biggest killer of elephants.

Sri Lanka, a small island nation in the Indian Ocean, is a place where history, culture, and nature converge in stunning ...