A 2001 government census (PDF) says Sri Lanka’s main ethnic populations are the Sinhalese (82 percent), Tamil (9.4 percent), and Sri Lanka Moor (7.9 percent).

With the ‘rise’ of the Tamil language in Sri Lanka, there was the desire to bring Tamil to the same level as Sinhala. Sinhala ranks first in all trilingual lists including name boards on roads. A ...

GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP) — Najmul Hossain Shanto and Mushfiqur Rahim stitched together an unbroken 247-run stand to put Bangladesh in a commanding position at 293-3 at the end of the first day of ...

The shoot of Malayalam director Mahesh Narayanan’s big-budget action-drama, featuring superstars Mammootty, Mohanlal, Fahadh Faasil and Nayanthara, has resumed in Sri Lanka after a break.

Objective Our main objective was to describe the prevalence and associated sociodemographic factors of frailty and pre-frailty in rural community-dwelling older adults in Kegalle district of Sri Lanka ...

Letters from Michigan Supreme Court’s administrator, Judge Thomas P. Boyd, to 52nd District Court Chief Judge Travis Reeds in April and June 2025. (Oakland County handout) ...

The correspondence sheds light on years of concerns recently documented by the judicial tenure commission about 52-A District Judge Kirsten Nielsen Hartig’s behavior in the courtroom.

A young British woman held in a Sri Lankan prison without charge for the last three weeks could still be months away from a bail hearing after her arrest for allegedly smuggling £1.2m worth of ...

Chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology (CKDu) has emerged as a serious public health concern in farming communities globally, especially in Sri Lanka with 5%–20% of the adult population affected ...

Night - Cloudy. Winds from WNW to W at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 68 °F (20 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 83 °F (28.3 °C) and a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds variable ...