Sri Lanka's government on Friday released nearly 1,800 former Tamil Tiger rebels who had been held since the island nation's civil war ended more than two years ago. The former combatants ...

Cricket began to develop in Sri Lanka once the process of British colonisation was completed in the early 1800s. The earliest reference to the game in Sri Lanka was reported in the "Colombo Journal" ...

This hiking trail, divided into 22 stages, begins in Sri Lanka's second largest city of Kandy, close to the area where Scotsman James Taylor first planted tea in the country in the mid-1800s.

The six objects returning to Sri Lanka are currently in the collection ... and it entered the Rijksmuseum’s collection in 1800. Other objects leaving the Rijksmuseum include two guns, two ...

Only 1,800 military personnel were deployed in ... The Tamils had eschewed support for the main Sinhala community political parties in Sri Lanka’s political history. This was the first time ...