Sri Lanka's central bank governor was on Sunday cleared over allegations of insider trading.
Just a few months ago, Asanka Ekanayake was a happy man. He had a stable job, a happy family and was looking forward to the locally celebrated Sinhalese and Tamil New Year with his wife, whom he had married recently.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena considers China as a close partner, the president's office said on Tuesday.
India said on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Sri Lanka this week is aimed at scaling up bilateral investments to expand infrastructure and create jobs for people of the island nation.
A massive protest was staged outside the main prison in Sri Lanka's capital on Tuesday with hundreds of protesters demanding for an investigation into a prison riot in 2012 which left at least 27 inmates dead and several others injured.
India and Sri Lanka Monday agreed to strengthen traditional ties while seeking a new horizon for bilateral relations on the first day of the visit by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena to India.
The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday said that it will implement the death sentence if the island's high crime rate continues.
Politics in Sri Lanka is taking strange turns. For nearly a decade Sri Lanka was under an all-powerful president, an imposing man who ended a three decade war and carried out massive infrastructure projects, resulting in five years of 7 percent growth.
Pope Francis arrived in Sri Lanka on Tuesday for a historic two day visit focused on promoting reconciliation in the island troubled by ethnic divisions.
Voting started in Sri Lanka's presidential election on Thursday, which is tipped to be a close race with the incumbent president Mahinda Rajapaksa fighting for an unprecedented third term.
Political party crossovers, election law violations and an intense debate over Sri Lanka's economic future are the main ingredients that spice up the island' s presidential election scheduled for early January next year.
Death toll in Sri Lanka's massive landslide tragedy rose to eight on Monday after two more bodies, including that of a child was recovered, an official said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Sri Lankan counterpart, Mahinda Rajapaksa, on Wednesday attended the opening ceremony of a large construction project in Colombo.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on China and Sri Lanka to accelerate the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between the two countries.
Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa agreed here Tuesday to strengthen the two countries' strategic cooperative partnership, and announced the launch of the negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA).
Sri Lankan Muslims on Sunday called for the protection of an ancient and historical Buddhist site in Borobudur, Indonesia after Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremists threatened to attack it.
Sri Lankan election monitors on Wednesday voiced alarm at escalating violence in the run up to provincial elections next month with over 20 opposition party offices attacked this week.
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