HSBC has announced it will sell its entire Sri Lankan retail banking business to Nations Trust Bank, as part of a global strategy to scale back less-profitable operations.

Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) told Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama today that 6,000 gold items recovered from the North-East during and after the armed conflict have now been handed over to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

Symbolic hunger strike in Vavuniya marks 38th death anniversary of Thiyaga Theepam Thileepan

The Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, began a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka this week, meeting with top military leaders in Colombo as both states pledged to deepen cooperation in the Indian Ocean.

Seven Rameshwaram fishermen arrested in Neduntheevu waters sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, suspended for six years

Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s call at the United Nations for a ceasefire in Gaza drips with hypocrisy. The very man who stood on platforms railing against peace for Tamils now speaks the language of international humanitarianism. For Tamils on this island, his words are hollow and an insult.

Former Karachchi Divisional Council member S. Jeevan has called on the Sri Lankan government to withdraw its troops from LTTE cemeteries – Maaveerar Thuyilum Illam - across the North-East, warning that only then would Tamils be able to pay homage freely at these sites of remembrance.

Sri Lankan police have arrested three men in connection with the killing of Sinhala nationalist activist Dan Priyasad, including a former soldier suspected of carrying out the shooting.

Bullets buried in the grounds of Mandaitivu, where construction of the proposed Jaffna International Cricket Stadium is underway, were exhumed this week with the permission of the Kayts court.

Over 1,800 people have been killed in road accidents across Sri Lanka in the first nine months of 2025, according to police data, with the mounting death toll now including foreign tourists.

Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has claimed that a statement given to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) by the father of a child killed in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings could be “harmful for the country".

Tamil residents of Valikamam West are being forced to buy drinking water after the Sri Lankan navy and army extracted tens of thousands of litres daily from village wells, leaving them saline, warned local council member I. Nagaranchini.

The 30th anniversary of the Nagarkovil Maha Vidyalayam student massacre was observed today, honoring the 21 students killed in the 1995 airstrike