Over 1,700 people board the Queen of the Sea express train in Sri Lanka, unaware that a wall of water is heading straight for them. This is the haunting story of the world’s deadliest rail ...

Sri Lanka's best cultural experiences - Planning a trip to the tropical island country of the moment? Beverley Watts has your ...

A Brit’s Christmas trip to Sri Lanka turns tense as a massive wave looms near his train.

THIS is the moment a woman went head-to-head with railway staff to delay a high-speed train so her late friends could hop on – only to be arrested later. Captured on video at a station in ...

I want to be a special, exceptional and unmatched citizen of this country. That is the purpose of my living. And, I want to ...

The ‘Siri Dalada Vandanawa’, a special veneration of the Sacred Tooth Relic, will commence today (18) after 16 years ...

In its recent action, Sri Lanka has refused to buy India's fighter plane Tejas MK1 amid its air force development plan.

To facilitate the increasing number of devotees travelling to Kandy for the ongoing Siri Dala Wandana (public exposition of ...

An India-Sri Lanka direct rail or road link needs just a 25-km-long bridge. The Pamban Bridge, recently inaugurated by PM ...

Practise your English with our short listening exercises: play the audio, answer the questions, and check the answers at the ...

A group of 44 diplomats, including from Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, the Netherlands, India, Myanmar, Palestine, ...