After India suffered a massive defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka in the ICC World Twenty20 finals  on Sunday evening, Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh's house in the Manimajra locality of Chandigarh was pelted with stones, according to Amar Ujal

Among the 422 individuals designated by the Sri Lankan Government through a Gazette Extraordinary issued on March 21st 2014, is included the name of a person who died two years ago, senior Premini herself was brutally raped and executed. Yet the gaze

Kumar Sangakkara is carried around the field after winning the World T20, India v Sri Lanka, final, World T20, Mirpur, April 6, 2014.Highlights AFP

Kumar Sangakkara guided Sri Lanka to a six-wicket victory over India to win the World Twenty20 in Mirpur and end a run of four defeats in global finals.

India were restricted to 130 for four in the final of the WorldT20 being played in Mirpur Bangladesh. Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field first.

Sri Lanka stand-in captain Lasith Malinga won the toss and elected to field against India in the final of the fifth World Twenty20 at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur.

The final of the ICC World T20 between India and Sri Lanka is likely to be delayed as steady rainfall is threatening to play spoilsport at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur.

A cricket fan spotted in the nude at a public location in Kollupitiya over the Sri Lanka Cricket team’s win against the West Indies in the ICC World T20 Semi-Final last Thursday (03) was ordered to pay a fine of Rs. 2,500 by a Colombo Court.

Leader of the Opposition and UNP National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said his party would now press the government to hold a presidential or a general election next year

Naval troops attached to SLN Thambapanni of the North Western Naval Command arrested four men with 15 kilogrammes of cannabis and a shot gun at the Nugawala Junction in Puttalam yesterday

About 100 school children including 20 from Kilinochchi and Jaffna, who lost their parents during the war, realised their cherished dream of flying on an airliner last Friday. Their dreams come true when the SriLankan Airlines took the children on a

The head of the multinational search for the missing Malaysian jetliner says that an Australian ship detected an 'acoustic event' early Sunday morning and that a Chinese ship has reported a second pulse consistent with an aircraft black box i

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) Pakistan, General Rashad Mahmood, will arrive in Sri Lanka tomorrow on his first overseas visit after taking over as CJCSC

The first ever biggest naval exercise of the Sri Lanka Navy code-named TRINEX concluded successfully on Friday. Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Jayanath Colombage took the salute during the steam past held on the final phase of the exercise held

At least 27 people were injured after a bus collided head on with a lorry in Digithawa, Wariyapola this evening, police said.

A Chinese vessel searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has detected a pulse signal in the southern Indian Ocean, China's Xinhua news agency has reported.

At least seventeen people were injured when a bus veered off the road and toppled over near Bambarakulama Bridge in Bulathsinhala last night, police said.

Lasith Malinga will be appointed Sri Lanka captain on a full-time basis in the T20 International format replacing the present captain Dinesh Chandimal after the present ICC World T20 tournament, sources told “Daily Mirror”.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is reported to have pulled up Irrigation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting over a statement made by him to the media saying that mega development projects would not suffice to win votes.

The Army’s Military Police are currently questioning four soldiers with regard to the leaked video footage which went on YouTube showing a group of trainee women soldiers being harassed at an Army Camp in Anuradhapura.

British Prime Minster David Cameron said that Britain will work closely with its international partners to support the implementation of the resolution on Sri Lanka establishing an international investigation.

Referring to Sri Lanka ethnic, religious and cultural diversity, visiting Singapore Foreign Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam today said that its human capital, potential and the multi-ethnic nature of the population could hold a tremendous dynam

India beat South Africa, comfortbaly, by seven wickets, to book a place in Sunday's final of the World T20 2014, against Sri Lanka.

Union Minister and senior Congress leader G K Vasan today said the centre's stand in abstaining from voting on a US resolution on alleged war crimes by Sri Lanka at the UNHRC would not affect the party in the Lok Sabha elections.

India’s decision to abstain from voting on the U.S.-sponsored resolution at the UNHRC against alleged war crimes by Sri Lanka was taken at the “political” level for the welfare of the Tamils in that country, the External Affairs Min

South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first in the semifinal of the Twenty-Twenty Cricket World Cup against India in Mirpur, a short while ago

The Sri Lankan team will be handed a million dollar bonus if they can shake off their reputation as chokers in the final of the World Twenty20 this weekend, the country's cricket board announced today.

A United States Grand Jury this week handed down an indictment to six persons including a Sri Lankan, Periyasamy Sunderalingam, in $18.5-million titanium mining scam

Chief Ministers and Ministers for the Western and Southern Provincial Councils were sworn in by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential secretariat today. Pix by Presidential media

Sri Lanka is ranked 85th out of 132 countries on the Social Progress Index 2014, a measure of human wellbeing that goes beyond traditional economic measures such as GDP or per capita income, becoming the top performers for the region, a global index