Pallegama Hemarathana, 71, is the most senior monk in the country to be accused of such a crime. The child’s mother has also ...

Police have arrested two Sri Lankan nationals on suspicion of theft after they allegedly stripped copper roofing and ...

Sri Lanka raised fuel prices in May 2026 as the Middle East war continued to disrupt global energy supplies, but a purported ...

As a group of monks with a rescued stray dog arrived in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka for a week-long peace walk in April 2026, ...

A Sri Lankan court has issued a landmark order for reforestation in a protected area near a Buddhist temple to address ...

Officials say each monk was found with around 5kg of Kush - a particularly potent form of the drug - hidden within "false ...

Sri Lanka after allegedly being caught with more than 240 pounds of potent cannabis when returning from a trip to Thailand.

The JVP/NPP government censors Tamil writers under the guise of “national unity," while allowing Sinhala chauvinist and ...

Top Sri Lankan monk Pallegama Hemarathana arrested for alleged sexual abuse of an 11-year-old girl, sparking national outrage ...

India has overtaken England to become Australia’s largest overseas-born population group, while the Sri Lankan-born community ...

Indeewari Mendis, a Sri Lankan English teacher and Young Learner coordinator at the British Council in Ho Chi Minh City, ...