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The gruesome discovery is further evidence of the atrocities committed during the brutal communal war, unleashed by ...
Young birder Lahiru Walpita begins most of his days at dawn by scanning the skies for seabirds along the coastline in ...
For centuries, barefoot pilgrims have walked through the arid jungles and lush forests of Sri Lanka’s east and south, ...
Today I'm in Wilpattu National Park in the North of Sri Lanka with Classic Wild and @RuzainaHadgie to check out some of Sri Lanka's best wildlife!
Sri Lanka’s northern fishermen on Sunday said they “fiercely oppose” the government’s plan to issue licences to Indian fishermen to enter Sri Lankan waters, terming the move a “serious ...
When Sri Lanka slid into its worst economic crisis in seven decades leading to deadly riots and alarming shortages of fuel, food and medicines earlier this year, its giant northern neighbour ...
Suicide bombers struck Sri Lanka’s churches and hotels on Easter Sunday, killing and injuring hundreds of people. Seven percent of Sri Lanka’s population is Christian – most of them Roman ...
Revisiting northern Sri Lanka’s battlefields A group of Indian Peace Keeping Force veterans revisits the battlefields of northern Sri Lanka, where their lives and destinies were interwoven with ...
In 2014, an extension opened, linking Sri Lanka’s northern region with the rest of the country. As we travel further north, we find the provinces retain their refreshing “off the beaten track ...
In spite of the country’s recent democratic gains, problems continue to plague Sri Lanka’s Tamil-dominated Northern Province.
Last year, when Sri Lanka held its first provincial elections in the Northern Province since the end of the civil war, turnout was almost 70 percent, the highest of any Sri Lankan province.
Tomorrow, for the first time in 25 years, Sri Lanka will hold elections to its Northern Provincial Council, a step that could facilitate reconciliation between the country’s majority (mostly ...