Sri Lankan parliament to elect new president on July 20: Speaker

The Sri Lankan parliament will elect the new president to succeed Gotabaya Rajapaksa on July 20, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced on Monday. IMAGE: People wait to visit the President's......

Rajapaksa to resign on July 13, announces Lankan parliament speaker

Sri Lanka's embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa would resign on Wednesday, Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced late on Saturday night, hours after thousands of protesters......

Is Nepal unrest handiwork of 'outsiders'?

'This escalation was definitely not part of Gen Z's plan. It seems now that these external forces were keenly observing the initial developments from the sidelines and jumped into the fray, taking......

Sri Lankan parliament reopens

Sri Lanka's parliament reopened Wednesday, ruling that President Chandrika Kumaratunga's two-week suspension of the assembly was illegal and that it would disregard any future attempt to disrupt......

Pak army called in to protect Sri Lankan cricketers

The cricket stadium and the hotel where the Sri Lanka team is staying are both less than 10 km from the site of the bombing. IMAGE: A police officer stands outside a court building in Islamabad......

Hope ICC suspending SLC doesn't affect our schedule: Mendis

IMAGE: Sri Lanka registered just two wins in their nine league matches in the ongoing ODI World Cup in India. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters A concerned Sri Lanka skipper Kusal Mendis......

SLC takes legal action against Sports Minister

IMAGE: The crisis in Sri Lanka cricket deepened further with the Lankan board slapping a defamation suit against the sports minister. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters Sri Lankan......

Jayasuriya steps in as Sri Lanka's interim coach for India series

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Sanath Jayasuriya/Instagram Former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya has been named the interim head coach of the island nation's cricket team ahead of its white-ball......

Shakib Al Hasan: Cricketer who never played by the rules

IMAGE:  Shakib Al Hasan’s 14,271 international runs with 14 hundreds, 708 wickets and 119 catches across 446 international games in last 17 years, puts him on a......