A total of 234 Tamil prisoners in Sri Lanka, most of them former Tamil Tiger rebels, are on a hunger strike the past five days here, said officials on Monday.

Inmates of three prisons, located in Col

Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse has ordered the release of his jailed electoral rival, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, the presidential spokesman said Sunday.

The former four-star general will

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday rejected international calls to withdraw troops from the country's former warzones, warning that LTTE diaspora had not given up separatism.

"Some a

Jailed former Sri Lankan Army Chief Sarath Fonseka was on Friday granted bail by the High Court here in a case for harbouring military deserters, ahead of an imminent presidential pardon for him.

Fo

A Sri Lankan woman bit off the penis of her 30-year-old lover during a row on Friday, a doctor said, as police investigated two other incidents.

The man was rushed to a rural hospital in Andapana, 18

The Indian policy on Sri Lanka in the 1980s, the formative years of the LTTE, provided encouragement to the separatist group, a new book has claimed.

The book, 'Gota's War', talks about India's ‘cove

Two years after the decisive battle in which the Tamil Tigers were vanquished, Sri Lankan security forces made their biggest-ever haul recovering 6,250 kgs of hidden LTTE explosives.

The arms cache

The mobile telephone users in Sri Lanka have increased rapidly over the year 2011 with more than 105 telephone connections for 100 people, authorities said on Tuesday.

According to a Central Bank ann

Pakistan will tour Sri Lanka next month for three Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20 games, Sri Lanka Cricket said on Monday.

The Pakistanis will kick off the six-week tour with two

Sri Lanka has rejected an Indian offer to upgrade a refinery that is built to refine only Iranian oil, a minister said on Sunday.

Petroleum Minister Susil Premjayantha said the offer to upgrade the S