Sri Lanka is facing a severe crisis after Cyclone Ditwah caused widespread flooding and landslides, resulting in numerous deaths and displacement. India has launched 'Operation Sagar Bandhu' to provide relief. The situation is expected to remain critical with rising river levels and continued rainfall.
Ten Indian fishermen, arrested for allegedly engaged in illegal fishing in the Sri Lankan waters on Monday, will be charged with the death of a Navy sailor, who was killed in an operation to seize their trawler, authorities in Colombo said.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna's (JVP) broader front National People's Power (NPP), on Sunday consolidated his lead in the Sri Lanka's presidential election.
A protest has begun in front of the Trincomalee Naval Base after reports Mahinda Rajapaksa and some of his family members are there after leaving Temple Trees, the official residence of prime minister.
Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's residence in the city of Kurunegala in the north-western province was set on fire on Monday, hours after the leader tendered his resignation.
Three-time champions India geared up for Sunday's final against Sri Lanka with a resounding 206-run victory over Pakistan in their last league encounter of the Women's Asia Cup in Dambulla on Friday. Meanwhile, in another match, India's opponent in the final, Sri Lanka, beat Bangladesh by nine wickets in Kurunegala.
The wicketkeeper-batsman scored a stylish 88 as India registered a 93-run victory over a Kurunegala District Invitation XI.
Andhra batsman Ricky Bhui has been named as replacement for Gujarat's Karan Viradia in India's under-19 squad for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka. "Viradia has become ineligible as per the age he has mentioned on his passport which differs with the age provided to us. He is overage," said a source in the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Asia Cup-winning captain Mithali Raj says her team is capable of dethroning world champions Australia in the next year's World Cup.
India clinched their fourth successive women's cricket Asia Cup title by thrashing Sri Lanka by a massive 117 runs in the final at the Welagedara Stadium in Kurunegala on Sunday.
Rumeli Dhar missed her maiden one-day international century but guided India to a thumping 182-run victory over arch-rivals Pakistan in the Women's cricket Asia Cup in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka on Monday.\n\n
Gota has to decide if he could order elder brother Mahinda's arrest as the agent provocateur of Monday's violence. Then he has to prepare for an interim government, in which no one would now want to become a cabinet minister leave alone prime minister, explains N Sathiya Moorthy.
Unofficial results indicate that the SLPP would comfortably win at least 17 out of the 22 districts on offer.
Sri Lanka's last-wicket pair of Ramesh Mendis and Lakshan Jayasinghe held on bravely to deny India victory in the first Youth Test between the two countries in Dambulla on Friday.
Centuries by Sri Lanka's No 8 Binuka Fernando (100 not out) and No 9 A K Tyronne (123 not out) enabled Sri Lanka force a draw against India in the second 'Youth Test' in Kurunegala on Thursday. The two-match series ended in a draw, largely due to the 188-run eighth-wicket stand between Tyronne and Fernando, which helped Sri Lanka amass 499 in their second innings.
'Rajapaksa's victory poses a serious foreign policy challenge for the Modi government,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Skipper Vijay Zol continued to make merry against the Sri Lankan attack as he scored his second successive hundred of the series to give India's a huge first innings lead in the second and final 'Youth Test' in Kurunegala, on Tuesday.
Indian colts recorded their first victory in the tour of Sri Lanka as they beat the hosts by 22 runs in the second 'Youth ODI', in Kurunegala on Tuesday.
The country has a fiendishly complicated electoral system that is a combination of population-based proportional representation and party-based national lists, says Aditi Phadnis
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