According to the Kachi Math, Sri Adi Sankara settled down at Kanchi, established the Math and founded a lineage of successors. The 68th pontiff of the Math, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi ...

A disciple of Sri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswathi Swamigal, the 70th Sankaracharya, will be the mutt’s 71st Sankaracharya in this unbroken lineage that is a continuum non pareil. With this ...

COLOMBO, May 15 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has restructured nearly $931 million in lines of credit and buyers' credit facility agreements with the Indian government, the island nation's finance ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said. The accident ...

For decades, Sri Lanka has lived in the shadow of its big-brother neighbour, India. It has also had its fair share of strife, wars, coups, crises and change of heads. But all of that instability ...

A Sri Lankan Air Force helicopter crashed during a graduation ceremony on Friday, plunging into a reservoir and killing six of the 12 people on board, a military official said. The personnel were ...

The Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, as seen from Space Shuttle Endeavor. A bridge and tunnel across the strait have been proposed for construction. Credit: Wikipedia/NASA The Sri Lankan ...

Amid persisting questions from the political Opposition and media about Sri Lanka’s recent defence sector Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India, the government has asked those seeking ...

Onlookers watch as rescue workers search the debris at the site of a bus accident near the town of Kotmale, Sri Lanka, on May 11, 2025. (Photo: AP) 14 May 2025 08:44PM (Updated: 14 May 2025 08:46PM) ...

Sri Lanka’s recently elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s political coalition, the National People’s Power (NPP), won an overwhelming amount of support from the majority Sinhalese community as ...

In a rare and a prestigious honour in the world of biological sciences, a newly discovered species of bronzeback snake has been named after one of Sri Lanka’s foremost herpetologists, Dr. A. A. Thasun ...

Sri Lankan police have launched an investigation after a photograph allegedly showing the sacred tooth relic of Lord Buddha surfaced on social media. The image reportedly originated from the ...