The Latest Breaking News from Sri Lanka

The National Children's Commissioner blasts some of the biggest gambling companies in Australia for offering bets on international cricket matches involving underage players.

India's foreign minister arrives in Colombo on Thursday following his country's backing of Sri Lanka for a $2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, leaving China as the island's last remaining major creditor which has yet to agree to the debt restructuring plan.

India has informed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) it will support Sri Lanka's debt restructuring plan, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said, as the island nation races to secure a $2.9 billion bailout from the global lender.

Chamika Karunaratne was run out by Mohammed Siraj in the third ODI between Sri Lanka and India after he decided to hold the pose when defending a ball straight back to the bowler

The former captain is now within three centuries of equalling Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI hundreds

Hameed will be looking to reignite his Test career

The leader of Sri Lanka's Catholic Church on Friday praised a Supreme Court decision to order the former president and four officials to pay compensation for the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 260 people.

Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church wants the country’s former leader to be criminally prosecuted for negligence

Sri Lanka will slash its army by a third to 135,000 by next year and to 100,000 by 2030, the defence minister said on Friday, as the country facing its worst economic crisis in more than seven decades tries to cut costs.