Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) workers, backed by police, this week used bulldozers and broke down parapet walls in lanes on the seaside in Kollupitiya, amidst claims by residents that no advance ...

Almost all parapet walls in the Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia area have been spoiled as people urinate on them, government MP Samanmalee Gunasinghe told Parliament today. ..

Suhail, 21, an aviation student from Mawanella, was arrested last year after being accused of posting an Instagram photo ...

A powerful politico in an area North of the hill city had got a Bodhi Praakara – a parapet wall around a Bodhi – torn down to recover a large haul of geuda stones buried in it, they say. ..

Sri Lanka has agreed in principle to sell an 80% stake in a deep-water port on the nation’s southern coast, close to one of the world’s busiest sea lanes, to a Chinese state-owned company.

You have to pick your way through when you go inside St Anthony's Shrine – around broken stained glass, the coins blown out of the donation box, and the pools of water coloured with blood.

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to his Sri Lankan counterpart, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, informing him that the United States will impose a 30 percent tariff on all Sri Lankan exports ...

A charismatic leader who allegedly helped plan and execute Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings called before the attacks for killing non-Muslims in Facebook posts that remained online despite complaints ...

Police investigations are underway to apprehend 20 suspects in connection with an incident where a parapet wall belonging to a doctor’s house in Mulgampola, Kandy was allegedly demolished over a ...

Sri Lanka is the poster child for China’s so-called “debt trap diplomacy”, so asking Beijing for easier repayment terms looks logical amid a worsening financial crisis. Other options for ...

In other news, Wall Street rebounded after a losing streak last week and the Sri Lankan government announced that it had defeated the rebel Tamil Tigers group after decades of conflict.

Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever has suspended operations at its Wall's ice cream factory in Sri Lanka after employees downed tools over a pay dispute.