The government will indict some 1,000 former LTTE cadres in custody on charges of involvement in terrorism during the nearly three decades ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka that came to an end last May.

Almost 265,000 displaced Tamil civilians who had fled Sri Lanka's war zone in 2009 have been resettled in their villages, leaving only five refugee centres operational in northern areas, an official s

At least 62 people, including two Chinese nationals, were killed and 40 others injured on Friday in an accidental blast of explosives stored in a police station in Eastern Sri Lanka for road construct