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Sri Lanka's authorities continue to exchange information with bilateral creditors but a formal committee to restructure the country's foreign debt is not yet in place, a source close to the Finance Ministry told Reuters. The island nation held a third round of talks with representatives from credit

Sri Lanka has re-introduced and expanded a visa-free entry scheme for visitors in a bid to revive its flagging tourism sector after the deadly Easter bombings, officials said Wednesday. The concession for tourists from 39 nations was suspended after three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo

Sri Lanka’s president accused newly reappointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of corrupt leadership in a scathing speech Sunday in which he voiced doubts about their ability to work together and signaled the 2-month political crisis is far from resolved. President Maithripala Sirisena adminis

Two men each claim to be the prime minister. Lawmakers are exchanging blows in Parliament. A former finance minister says the country is on the brink of an “economic anarchy.” Welcome to Sri Lanka, where the political crisis is getting worse by the week. The trouble started when President Maithripa

Sri Lanka’s Parliament has passed a no-confidence vote against the government headed by Mahinda Rajapaksa, a former strongman hastily sworn in as prime minister last month. The motion brought Wednesday morning by the leader of an opposition party could mean that Rajapaksa will have to resign his po

Sri Lanka's monsoon toll climbed to 164 with the discovery of more bodies of people buried in landslides triggered by intense rains, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said Monday. Friday's deluge also caused the island's worst flooding in 14 years and drove nearly half a million people out of th

Sri Lanka has moved over 400 families to temporary shelters after tonnes of rotting garbage collapsed onto a slum on Friday, killing at least 28 people. Some 145 homes were destroyed when the 300-foot (90-metre) rubbish mountain came crashing down on Friday afternoon at Kolonnawa on the northeaster

Police have launched a hunt to apprehend an absconder for sexually abusing his younger brother’s three underage daughters, reported ‘Sunday Mawbima’. The accused reportedly abused them time and again by inviting them to his home. The little girls – aged between two-and-a-half and eight years – used

Colombo: An investigation is being conducted by Dankotuwa police to arrest man who contacted a 17-year-old girl through mobile phone and fled after sexually abusing her, ‘Mawbima’ reported. The victim, a resident of a remote village in Dankotuwa, was employed in a garment factory after she left her

An environmentalist, who reared snakes in his home as a hobby, died of snake bite. This was revealed by hospital authorities after a postmortem inquiry held at the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka, ‘Hiru Gossip’ reported. Identified as Amal Kithruwan Wijesekara, the environmentalist

A 17-year-old Sri Lankan youth assaulted his mother and then ran into the jungle and committed suicide. A resident of Kuda Kannoruwa area in Meegalewa, Sri Lanka, the accused, SMR, hanged himself to a tree, ‘Mawbima’ reported. Annoyed by the consistent and excessive advices by the mother, the teena

A man stabbed his friend in the head and abdomen for holding his wife’s hand in Gampola area of Sri Lanka, ‘Lankadeepa’ reported. The two men had become friends while they were in the jail. On the day of incident, the victim came to his friend’s house in a drunken state and grabbed a hand of the ac