A 21-year-old UK former flight attendant faces up to 25 years in Sri Lanka. She allegedly carried over 100 pounds of the deadly synthetic drug, kush. Lee claims the drugs were planted in her ...

British media, including the BBC, have identified the woman as Charlotte May Lee, a former cabin crew member from London, who had flown to Sri Lanka from Thailand. She is being held in detention ...

Recent sightings of golden jackals (Canis aureus naria) in Sri Lanka’s capital city underscore the significance of urban wetlands as sanctuaries for wildlife amid rapid urbanization. The jackals ...

In a 2023 piece on actor Sivaji Ganesan, senior journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj pointed to the lively song ‘Udarata Menike’ in the film, sung by L.R. Easwari and A.E. Manoharan, based on Sri Lanka ...

Sri Lanka’s first home Test match against Bangladesh, starting in June, will be the last Test match of Mathews’ career. Mathews began his Test career at Galle against Pakistan in 2009 ...

The 37-year-old star will retire from the longest format after Sri Lanka’s first Test against Bangladesh in June. Former Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews took to social media on Friday, 23 May, to ...

Next Manufacturing, one of Sri Lanka’s largest apparel plants, located in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone (KFTZ), shut down on Tuesday, resulting in the retrenchment of about 1,500 workers.

Due to decades of impunity in Sri Lanka, Tamil victims and advocates have lost faith in the domestic justice system and started looking for justice elsewhere. The United Nations human rights chief ...

The fatal bus accident occurred near Kotmale, a village in a mountainous region of south-central Sri Lanka, on May 11 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said. The accident ...

A helicopter crash in Sri Lanka has killed six military personnel, an Air Force official said on Friday. A Bell 212 helicopter had crashed into the Maduru Oya reservoir in central Sri Lanka with a ...

in eastern Sri Lanka’s Kumana National Park, highlighting the park as a significant habitat for the leopards. Using camera traps, the study recorded more than 90 leopard encounters, including 34 ...