Kumarakulasingham Dinojan, 15, right, who lost his left hand below his wrist and has damaged fingers in his right hand from a mine blast six years ago, spends time with his brother Vilvaraj Jethurshan ...

Around 14% of Sri Lanka’s total land area is dedicated to wildlife protected areas, which includes more than 20 national ...

Encroachments of national parks in Sri Lanka had occurred as early as the 1950s and 1960s, shrinking park terrain.

Tamil farmers say the Sri Lankan and Indian governments' plans for a solar power plant in eastern Sri Lanka will use land that was seized during the country's civil war. What is being done to ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, November 6 (UNHCR) - Three-and-a-half years after Sri Lanka's civil war ended, fresh challenges have emerged as people continue to return home. The UN refugee agency is working ...

The story goes that in 2011 Sri Lanka’s then-president Mahinda Rajapaksa looked out from the land reclamation site of Colombo's emerging South Container Terminal and had an epiphany: why not just keep ...

Sri Lanka refused permission to the US to land two of its warplanes in the island’s south-East Mattala International Airport in early March, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament here on ...

MANKULAM, Sri Lanka — Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decadeslong separatist war and later took to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tamil farmers say they have been blocked from farming on their ancestral landJeevan Ravindran Standing next to a tall, wired fence ...