Five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be reappointed on Thursday in an effort to bring stability to the island nation, engulfed in a political and economic crisis, a party official said.

Sri Lanka’s defence ministry yesterday ordered troops to shoot on sight people involved in looting or damaging property, a day after mobs targeted the homes of ruling-party politicians.

Protesters and a key trade group in Sri Lanka called for a new government to take control of the crisis-hit country on Tuesday as the president called for calm a day after clashes killed eight people, pushing his brother to quit as prime minister.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said the current government will face consequences far worse than that of Sri Lanka’s.

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency on Friday following a day of anti-government strikes and protests over the country's deep economic crisis that saw police use tear gas on two occasions.

India today said its economic assistance to Sri Lanka, facing its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, stands at more than USD three billion this year, so far, and is instrumental in addressing diverse needs of the government and people of Sri Lanka.

South Asia has been one of the fastest growing regions in the modern world, driven mostly by India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has expressed deep concerns about the worsening religious freedom conditions in Bangladesh and other South Asian countries.

Sri Lanka’s financial crisis is a classic example of what populist policies, corruption and mismanagement can lead a country to, which is a lesson for South Asian countries that lack good governance and has politicised administration, speakers told a webinar today (April 24, 2022).

The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday it held "fruitful technical discussions" with Sri Lanka on its loan request, while the World Bank said it was preparing an emergency aid package for the crisis-stricken country.

Sri Lanka's attempt to contain spiralling protests by blocking popular social media platforms led to an extraordinary spike in the use of censorship-dodging virtual private networks, a tracking firm said Monday. Demand for VPNs went up by a staggering 17,000 per cent on Sunday when the ban came into effect, Top10VPN.com said after tracking downloads by Sri Lankan users.

Selvadurai’s book, set against the backdrop of escalating political tension in Sri Lanka prior to the 1983 riots, portrays the effect of the Tamil-Sinhalese clash on the personal lives of his characters, before giving a glimpse of the riots in the very last chapter.

The Story of A Brief Marriage (2016) focuses on portraying the intricacies of alienation and uncertainty through the story of Dinesh, who has survived  the Sri Lankan civil war. 

Sand, water, memory—the grainy, elusive grace they share pervades the experiences making up Sri Lankan author Anuk Arudpragasam’s second novel, A Passage North (Hamish Hamilton, 2021), shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize.

Bangladesh Under-19s move to the semifinals of the Under-19s Asia Cup with a clinical 42-run win over their Sri Lankan counterparts in Moratuwa

Bangladesh’s stand-in captain Tamim Iqbal today conceded that the team has let itself down in the ongoing three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka, while saying that senior players like himself and Mahmudullah have failed to step up when the team needed them to do so.

Mohammad Mithun’s handy 91 and Sabbir Rahman’s late blows took Tigers to victory in the warm-up match against Sri Lanka Board President's XI at the P Sara Oval today.

Prolific opener David Warner smashes a brilliant 122 but could not claim victory for Australia as they slipped to a 10-run defeat to South Africa in their Cricket World Cup clash at Old Trafford on Saturday, leaving them facing a semi-final against England.

Kerala’s coastal areas of India were put on high alert after intelligence reports said that terrorists affiliated to the Islamic State are on their way to Lakshadweep in boats from Sri Lanka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in parliament yesterday asked people to be alert and inform law enforcement agencies about any suspected terror and militant activities without delay.