After 14 years in hiding, when King Valagamba finally returned to reclaim his throne in Anuradhapura around 89 BCE, he paid ...

U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung visited the Staten Island Hindu Temple in Castleton Corners on Friday, June 7, 2024. to meet with the Tamil American community.

PM Narendra Modi was honoured with Sri Lanka's highest civilian award, the Mitra Vibhushana, on Saturday during his three-day visit to the island nation.

Officials investigating a suspected mass grave in Sri Lanka called off the digging because the 83 skeletons unearthed seem to have been buried in an old cemetery.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The “Queen of Jaffna,” a once-popular train linking the ethnic Tamil’s northern heartland to the rest of Sri Lanka before a civil war cut the link 24 years ago, chugs ...

Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 19 (ANI): In Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, the serene ambiance of the Seetha Amman Temple is aglow with spiritual fervor as the auspicious Kumbaabhishekam puja unfolds.

The "Mrs. Sri Lanka" event was plunged into chaos as past winner Caroline Jurie interrupted the celebrations to brand the winner a divorcée, before striding over to her, both hands outreached ...

Veterinarians are preparing to airlift an Asian elephant from Sri Lanka back to its home country of Thailand this weekend after it spent more than two decades at a Buddhist temple where activists ...

COLOMBO: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday visited a famous Hindu temple in Sri Lanka's Jaffna city. Sitharaman is in the country on a three-day visit.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ends his two-day visit to Sri Lanka with a visit to a historic Buddhist temple on the outskirts of the capital Colombo. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is in India for an official three-daye state visit and as part of the tour visited the holy Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Bihar today, December 17.

The Thai royal family gave the elephant as a gift in 2001 to Sri Lanka’s government, which in turn gifted it to the temple where it was given honored roles in religious processions.